It's official, though I haven't heard a leaked peep out of it. Left 4 Dead 2 coming out in November. The trailer seems to take place in New Orleans, and I think it might have a story!!!!! New characters, and a new look. I even saw a Tank, and he look GREAT. CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!

WHERE.
IS.
THE.
LINK.

Worst idea ever

dlc? Well, looks like an entirely new game to me. Hell, Chainsaws!!!!!!! Valve is awesome, and so will it be.

@Those saying this game didn't need to be released: Dude whatever. First day purchase.

Linkage please?

meh Just name alone I am not excited, Valve better put more content into the sequel, because if it is just the same amount as the first I am not going to buy it again.

I really hope this isn't the start of a "sequel every year and forget your current products" trend for Valve.


And also, Left 4 Dead 2 is a fucking retarded name, did they not realise this?

Call it ;

"Left 4 Dead: New Orleans" for example, and make it a complete expansion pack for Left 4 Dead, similar to ODST.

If this is a standalone product Valve have lost some of my confidence in them.

I'm not sure this is going to be a stand-alone. I can see Valve pulling off some sort of craziness and turning this into a 10 dollar - 20 dollar Expansion pack ala Lost and Damned for GTAIV.

For all those ALREADY doubting Valve, one of the finest companies to ever make games, and from my experience (owning  every Valve game) they have yet to screw a customer over.

Tank is wearing dungerees. Has 1 massive arm and 1 midget arm and is wearing an eyepatch.

/Thread over.

I have full faith in Valve to make an amazing game but this really wasn't expected. Destructoid were saying that it was going to be L4D2 but I just couldn't see it happening a year later. I hope that it's different enough from the first that it warranted having a separate game.

Who would've thought this wasn't just a lousy rumour? It seems too soon for another Left 4 Dead. But it appears this one will focus on meless weapons, so it'll probably be very cool.

L4D Salvation would be a better name...

what the hell?

lol - some ppl need to lighten up. God forbid anyone makes a new game...

The game looks fun and good enough but it's still too early for a sequel, especially for Valve's standards.

It should have been an expansion that also adds some of the new features to the current content.

I don't like the new characters.

You know, when I lived in New Orleans I had to drive on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway nearly every day.  I always imagined being stuck on that piece of shit in some kind of emergency.  Imagine, a 25 mile long one way ride.  There's seriously no way to get off until you get to either side of the lake.  They should seriously consider a level on that thing.  I know a four lane, nearly all straight highway might sound boring, but think about it from the perspective of having no way to get off of that thing without getting to the end.  I mean, look at this monster.  Would you want to cross it on foot if it was clogged with broken down cars and zombies?  There are plenty of cop stations that could be used as safe rooms...

I was so pumped when I saw the tank! I'm pumped for this. Stop hating on valve. L4d was fucking awesome. I'm happy a new game is coming out. Stop hating

Bullets that ignite zombies... sweet.. but will make the Tanks even easier... 

But didn't it say something along the lines of "Exclusivley for Xbox 360 and PC-DVD"?
Maybe they're doing it to capitalize on people who don't have Steam.  It could be downloadable for Steam users after a certain amount of time...
I think its just a glorified expansion pack.  Well, I hope it is.

It's gonna be on Steam. And PC-DVD. And 360. Just like the first. Valve capitalised on people without Steam when they launched Half-Life 2 and each and every one interested in their games got Steam whether they wanted to or not. And then a multitude of other titles released on retail started requiring Steam also, like the Medieval Games, UT3 (if you want latest patch) etc. They have no reason to do non-Steam releases.

Looks like a customised weapon and new ammo types

I like the new location. Looks like it's in New Orleans or Mississippi or somewhere else down south.

More videos:

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/143...mo_052809.html

and

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/143...an_052809.html

and

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/143...ze_052809.html

and

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/143...er_052809.html

and

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/143...om_052809.html

and

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/143...rm_052809.html

(from the l4d2 forum)

That's the plan anyway. So, we judge the plan. Nov 17th release date as of now, sure it may be delayed, but it's still too early for a sequel.

L4D2 announced less than a year after the first game is released confuses me. Especially when reading through the IGN article covering their hands-on with the game it just seems like this 'sequel' is exactly what they should of released in the first place and that the November 17th 2009 release date for the second game should have been when L4D was originally released.

Plus the fact that Valve is working on this makes me think a HL2: Episode 3 announcement won't be coming this year at E3. Maybe later on during the end of 2009 it will be announced but I just can't see them doing that now. Which is super disappointing since I'd rather Episode 3 than a knock-off L4D sequel this year.

Well if this is a stand alone game then valve is making a huge mistake, but at this point for all we know it could be an expansion

Maybe when they say sequel it's just a box with L4D 1 and all this new content as well. For people who already own the game it could be added as an update. I'm not sure but until we get some more info I'm going to think Valve knows what they're doing.

How the hell does it take Valve one year to make sequel for Left 4 Dead, yet it takes them three years to make Half Life 2: Episode 3????

keep in mind also that most of what we know about it was said at the xbox presser, for all we know it could be valve saying fine charge what you want to the xbox people but were not doing that to pc. it wouldn't be the first time after all

Little bit of thanks for the game play videos?

No?

Fine, i'm going to sulk with crack down 2.

Sorry.

Thanks for the gameplay videos IGN.

:P

I'm going to buy it anyway because Valve always makes great games but I hope it's a significant enhancement from the first to make this game be a worthy sequel, otherwise I'll be quite disappointed.

Okay, from the gameplay videos the characters are: hillbilly dude, ghetto black girl, big, tough, silent black guy, and a suave, suited, Cajun dude maybe?

I got one thankyou. Here is an atrticle, some new stuff on level design, a new special zombie and why it has been released early.

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/988/988416p1.html

I'm serious, after watching the gameplay video it looks more and more like a 10-20$ Expansion pack DLC package. I can almost guarantee it.