Should be fun, looks like the same engine though, was hoping for an update there.  Still L4D is great, Id enjoy the multiplayer a lot more if it wasn't so glitchy though.

Why a sequel for this and none for Half Life 2 and Portal? This makes no sense for me. I thought they'd really support Left 4 Dead more with DLC  campaigns.

What the hell? I just bought the first game a month ago.

Awesome, more L4D :D Characters look cool, especially the fat one!

Oh yea!!!!

Game should be called Left 2 Die; L4D2 just sounds wierd.

That fat black guy looks awesome. I wonder how he'd handle a zombie apocalypse?

I know how he'd handle a zombie chicken apocalypse...

Also, does this mean we'll be seeing L4D3 and 4 soon? That hand only has 4 fingers. Do you think the L4D5 boxart will be the zombie holding both of its hands up?

i think it should be called "Left 4 dead again"

Considering the age of the first game, and its light content policy, this is fucking BS. I am interested, but unless this has $60 worth of content I'm not buying.

Hope it has more replayabillity than the first...

i havent even gotten a chance to buy the 1st one oh well....

Way too soon.

This is idiotic. I'm hoping that this is just a Valve joke, because this makes absolutely no sense. They put so much time and effort into devloping likable characters and all this other stuff they said they'd done... just to go and release the same game again?

Way too soon and I was sure that Valve wouldn't use a stupid name like Left 4 Dead 2!

What the hell are they thinking?

I agree with everyone else, i only bought the first one a few months ago. Way too soon to be releasing another one.

This is fake, trust me.

Unless there's some real draw to this "too-soon" sequel, I'll keep my Francis and like it.

Guys the reason why it's so early is because Valve team gets to pick which projects they want to do next. They decided to do L4D2 not Ep.3

Am I the only one that feels this should be DLC?

Uhhh....I still don't like it. Sorry, but they should've waited on this one for another year at least.

Looks great but I miss the old characters. Hopefully they'll change them back

Should be called "Zombies 8 my Brains"

It's a bit of a kick in the teeth that they're releasing a sequel so soon when the original is still riddled with glitches and inconsistency's, hopefully  it will be an expansion pack and not a full blown new product, I'd be down with that.

wow soo soon didnt expect this

Pretty disappointing.  It really feels like they're just milking us now.

So instead of releasing the extra campaigns they promised they are going for a sequal. Well if you can't charge people for DLC just release a sequel I guess.

I just bought the GOTY edition of the first one about a week ago expecting that they'll update it and now I find this out... damn.

I won't be paying full price for this and it seems that most people agree with me. This should just be released as DLC for the first game. What is in the new game that couldn't be added onto the first?

I cannot wait for this.

Ok anyone who actually listened to the L4D commentary knows that the developers at Valve stated their love for creating a dark atmosphere. Low-level lighting, few bright lights to attract the players to certain key areas. This sequel, from the gameplay looks to totally contradict everything they wanted to achieve in the first one. I hope I'm getting fooled. If you got Left4Dead, go into commentary mode and have a listen, very enlightening.

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Well, I'm glad I didn't get the first one.

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Valve are masters in their field, they wouldn't be associated with this.

It's a funny, fake joke.

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Also... why are we assuming that they will stop releasing content for L4D 1? And that  L4D2 will be full-cost?

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Odds are Microsoft forced Valve into this position. I'm making this claim based on what we know about MS and Valve.

1) MS disdains free updates, and the free survival mode update to L4D is, as far as I know, the only free update offered through X-Box Live that is not a patch.
2) Valve felt really bad about the Orange Box's multi-platform release, so much so they stopped developing for the PS3 and fought  tooth and nail with MS to have the L4D content be a free download.

Valve probably lost this trickle down content battle with MS, and this is the only solution they can think of. Lets hold off the boycotts and what not until we get the full story.

Boo! Long live Bill/Louis/Zoey/Francis!

It's still 6 months out.  Anything could happen in that time (in terms of characters, box art, title, a cut-price upgrade from L4D etc.).  I think Valve probably deserve the benefit of the doubt given their track record....

Oh, and if this was their biggest announcement you would not be seeing it slipped into the MS conference.  They have something big to come.  Who knows, maybe even HL3... it has been 5 years already.