Left 4 Dead

[Streetfighter]

Setting out to do for co-op gaming what Counter-Strike did for team combat, Left 4 Dead is an ambitious survival horror game. Running on the Source engine, Left 4 Dead leaves four armed survivors of a world overrun with zombies, and they must fight their way out to escape the outbreak.

Designed for co-op play, the four players must work together to finish each stage of the game, lending each other artillery support, sharing ammo and rescuing each other when zombies are on top of them. In addition to the standard four players as humans, another four players can be amongst the masses of assaulting zombies, seeking to take down the other players. Zombie players might even find themselves become one of the four mutant "boss" zombies, who have unique powers that can be used to devastate, injure, tie up, mark and track, confuse, or even humiliate the gun-toting human survivors.


* Online Versus Multiplayer (8 players)
* Online Co-Op Multiplayer (4 players)
* Online Multiplayer

[ijakings]

L4D is going to be so awesome. That and Black Mesa are what im currently waiting for.

[Ocelot101]

So am I...read previews of this seems like a great idea.

[fatalsniper]

any body knwo when l4d is gonna come out ive been out of the loop for a bit and i think the only bad this about this game is gonna b that u need a mic to play and communicat kuz i watched soem trailers and it looks insanly intense so i dotn think you have time to run round corrrner press y type omfg guys there over here and then ur dudes are all lke y ok and ur liek hellllpp! and ur friends are all liek im commin then ur all lke well im dead now thx guys nice typing get a mic

[Ocelot101]

I heard November 5th

[L4rk3m0n]

I saw L4D on some E3 videos and it looks like a really cool game, but i dont understand how it works. I see u can have upto 4 ppl co-operating to kill all the zombies.

Do u just run around killing zombies til there all dead??? or is there an objective???

Also is this game a singleplayer (with bots? co-op'n with you) or can someone hosts the game over the net or what??? i do not understand!!!

[pantlessgoon]

There are different maps with different scenarios, but the general objective is to get from point A to point B. The survivors start on one end of the map and try to escape by getting to point B, fighting bosses and killing zombies along the way. I believe there are various checkpoints throughout and the zombies spawn randomly throughout the map to make each playthrough different.

It'll be like any other Half-Life mod (CS, Brainbread, Zombie Panic!, etc.), allowing you to play with others online just by joining a server or playing on a LAN server that you host yourself alone or with friends.

[Notes]

Can't wait for this game! So far I've tried Eternal Damnation, mod of Postal 2, and other cheap Zombie games but this one looks to be good. I haven't even tried out Dead Rising because I don't own any consoles at the moment except an old PS2 which works just fine but oh well, sooner or later I suppose.

[SS-Midnight]

I too am eagerly awaiting this game. I am still unsure as to whether or not I will get it for the 360 or PC.

Just watched the G4 PAX08 review and they said the 360 will get more updates than the PC. The game is slated for late Nov. launch.

[ijakings]

You do have the advantage of a superior control mechanism with the PC tho.