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    Left 4 Dead

    Game » consists of 14 releases. Released Nov 18, 2008

    Left 4 Dead puts players in the role of one of four survivors during a zombie apocalypse. Survivors will depend on co-operation to get from one safe house to another, while facing hordes of "Infected", four of which can be controlled by human players in certain game modes.

    Left 4 Dead RIPOFF?

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    #1  Edited By OutOfBounds9000

    Left 4 Dead is a ripoff.Some of it at least......Louis is a ripoff of Shaun from Shaun of the dead.And the boomer is a ripoff of Gears Of War.And i did see the humping zombies like the hunter and the climbing zombies and stuff in another video game realesed before left 4 dead.
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    #2  Edited By jakob187

    Dood, someone has 27,000 WIKI POINTS for the Left 4 Dead page?!  FUCK ME RUNNING!!!

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    #3  Edited By bwooduhs

    Who cares if it is? Left 4 Dead is awesome either way.

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    #4  Edited By asurastrike
    @OutOfBounds9000 said:
    " Left 4 Dead is a ripoff.Some of it at least......Louis is a ripoff of Shaun from Shaun of the dead.And the boomer is a ripoff of Gears Of War.And i did see the humping zombies like the hunter and the climbing zombies and stuff in another video game realesed before left 4 dead. "
    lol Left 4 Dead is a parody of Zombie movies. Of course it "rips off" stuff.
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    #5  Edited By JJOR64
    @jakob187 said:
    " Dood, someone has 27,000 WIKI POINTS for the Left 4 Dead page?!  FUCK ME RUNNING!!! "
    Holy fuck.  I wish I could get that many points.   :P
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    #6  Edited By iamjohn

    Should I care?

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    #7  Edited By pause422
    @OutOfBounds9000 said:
    " Left 4 Dead is a ripoff.Some of it at least......Louis is a ripoff of Shaun from Shaun of the dead.And the boomer is a ripoff of Gears Of War.And i did see the humping zombies like the hunter and the climbing zombies and stuff in another video game realesed before left 4 dead. "
    The fuck? How random is this shit? No reason to even give an actual answer.
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    #8  Edited By asurastrike
    @JJOR64 said:

    " @jakob187 said:

    " Dood, someone has 27,000 WIKI POINTS for the Left 4 Dead page?!  FUCK ME RUNNING!!! "
    Holy fuck.  I wish I could get that many points.   :P "
    Isn't there some kind of exploit where once you get 1000 points you can infinitely submit and delete without needing to be approved?
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    Left 4 Dead is a ripoff cause people are alive and dead in that game and so are they in real life. What a swizz!

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    #10  Edited By MrKlorox
    @TeflonBilly said:

    " Left 4 Dead is a ripoff cause people are alive and dead in that game and so are they in real life. What a swizz! "

    Lol. Is there a Norwegian/Swiss rivalry going on that I as an American do not know about?
     
    edit: Also L4D might be a ripoff... but not in the "I aped your shit" kind of way. It was a 70% complete game when it launched for a full $60 USD price. Then they announce that the other 30% content people thought they were paying for up front for was going to be turned into a full-price retail game called L4D2, and follow that by selling more 'free' content  for seven dollars to those who already payed $10 more than the ones who got it for $50 (360 and PC, respectively)

    The "I aped your shit" game franchise would be Call of Duty.
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    The Swiss are always scheming. There is no such thing as neutral
     

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    BE QUIET YOU!
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    #12  Edited By breadfan
    @OutOfBounds9000 said:
    " Left 4 Dead is a ripoff.Some of it at least......Louis is a ripoff of Shaun from Shaun of the dead.And the boomer is a ripoff of Gears Of War.
    Well both Shaun of the Dead and Gears of War can be said to have ripped off other things as well. 
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    I see your point, but I raise this one, What hasn't been made that hasn't been in some way influenced by something else?  Many characters, whether it be literature, movies or videogames have been influenced by outside sources.  So it isn't too surprising that there may be similarities in many different things.   
     
    PS: A Shaun of the Dead game would be awesome as long as a Hot Fuzz sequel comes out.  So basically Rich Gallup's idea for videogames based upon actors but with Simon Pegg.

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    @Boom_goes_the_dynamite said:
    " PS: A Shaun of the Dead game would be awesome as long as a Hot Fuzz sequel comes out.  So basically Rich Gallup's idea for videogames based upon actors but with Simon Pegg. "
    I'd be down for a Spaced adventure game
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    #15  Edited By Oriental_Jams

    A derivative game? 
     
     

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    #16  Edited By Tregard

    Wait, Left 4 Dead Didn't come up with zombies?
     
    EEEH-WAHH?!

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    #17  Edited By AhmadMetallic

    Left 4 Dead is a CALL OF DUTY WORLD AT WAR NAZI ZOMBIES  ripoff

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    #19  Edited By natetodamax
    @jakob187:@JJOR64:
     
    He has that many points because he posted in a bunch of PC codes or whatever to the wiki, giving him 27,000 points. I reported the bastard and I think he got in trouble.
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    #20  Edited By natetodamax
    @OutOfBounds9000 said:
    " Left 4 Dead is a ripoff.Some of it at least......Louis is a ripoff of Shaun from Shaun of the dead.And the boomer is a ripoff of Gears Of War.And i did see the humping zombies like the hunter and the climbing zombies and stuff in another video game realesed before left 4 dead. "
    Troll much?
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    #21  Edited By laticsfan

    And so is the Lion King, but A) No one cares and b) It dosen't stop it from being good.

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    #22  Edited By iam3green

    u can say anything is a rip off. gears of war is a rip off of killswitch. u can say it about anything...

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    #23  Edited By gibbs_acolyte

    I think games like movies have gotten to the point where people are always going to say that its a ripoff or a rehash of something

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    Call Of Duty 2 ripped off of World War 2.

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    #25  Edited By Seedofpower

    Arn't all games a ripoff from something else? Isn't that how games get better by reusing good ideas and improving them?

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    #26  Edited By Tuggah
    @Bucketdeth: World War 2 was a ripoff of World War 1.
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    #27  Edited By TheMustacheHero

    L4D started the first person shooter genre and came up with the concept of zombies, it's also the first time you could ever play co-op with 4 people. 
    This game is revolutionary!

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