Here's Your Left 4 Dead Shopping Mall Map

Well that's microsoft there, and I highly doubt there is even a small chance microsoft isn't going to make 360 owners pay for DLC for L4D.

Man, it would be great if somehow, Valve were able to get some of the modder maps into a DLC package for 360 and give us some of those sweet, sweet maps.  Not all of us can afford gaming PCs...or Steam game center licenses....  =  (

The day they make an exact replica of Willamette Parkview Mall is the day my head explodes.

I dont want this to sound bad, but i almost wish valve/turtlerock was doing a mall campaign, not the modders.

But whatever, i'll take it, afterall, it wouldnt be The Crossroads Mall if it wasn't the modders. I hope they make it as much as the main game as possible, i dont like it when a modded map feels out of place.

I feel kind of betrayed Brad, I sent you a PM the day after the podcast with a link to that exact video and detailing that it was the DOTD mall, but I get no mention...

I have a feeling that a mall is going to be DLC.  I do hope that they release DLC for the 360 fairly regularly, we don;t have the advantage of custom maps. 

They always said PC gaming was dead. I guess they meant zombies.

Damn! I SO want that!

Holy hell, that's impressive for the short time period that the game has been out.  Nice modding work!

Thats really cool. But will there be a path to the gun store?

Yep this is why you buy it for the PC.

Great stuff, lookin forward to plenty of maps in the future.

Needs more filmic post-processing effects.

Cheers to that Phlegms, cheers to that *hugs steam*

Epic!
And this is why I bought l4d on the pc as opposed to the 360, gotta love those modders.

Listen, we all love Left 4 Dead around here. Love it. You and I are both a little concerned about its staying power, though. The four included scenarios are great, but--let me stress--there's only four of 'em. The game is ripe for future downloadable scenarios, of course, and I'm sure Valve is already cracking on some, but what will be the manner of their release? Will Valve neglect the 360 version and simply put them out for free on the PC, as they've done with Team Fortress 2? Will they appear on Marketplace with a fee? You have to figure someone is going to come out of future L4D DLC (L4DLC?) releases a little unhappy, unless Valve and Microsoft can come up with an equitable solution that benefits players on both platforms.

Anyway. In the short term, there's another, underground, seedier way to get new Left 4 Dead maps: the mod community. You can envision all kinds of nifty themed L4D scenarios coming out of modders' collective creativity. Like, say, a shopping mall. That seems like the kind of place zombies would like to hang out, right? Maybe hit the Hot Topic, grab a Cinnabon?

Someone's already got you covered on that front. The original, the greatest of all zombie shopping malls, the Crossroads Mall from Dawn of the Dead, is forthcoming in Left 4 Dead format. Here's a work-in-progress video of it (sans undead).

Gallery