Flashlights off!!!
L4D has perfect group of things to make a game , Zombies, a city that makes Racoon city look like a walk in the park and 4 survivors being a Vietnam vet and biker and young girl and Louis. What more could you ask for.
L4D is pretty much put together of 4 zombie movies where you play as one of the four survivors who have to make there way out of the hell hole and to freedom. The 4 people are you typical zombies movie guys who u expect. Bill is aVietnam vet, Francis is the biker dude, Zoey the typical young female character and Louis who pretty much your run of mill kind of guy. While the characters are kind of like oh i bet it was really hard to come up with these 4 guys (sarcasm) they are kind of likable which due to fact that the voice actors do a great job in making each of them come to life. You can kind of believe that everythingthat's happening could go down.
To be honest the real stars of this game are zombies thought, there quite a few models of normal zombies but then again your not really looking at what they look like cause your mowing them down as fast as you can. There are also some special zombies who have evolved faster down the zombie treethat's gives them special attacks that's makes them much more fearsome then the common zombies, the Hunter is the most common of the special zombies, his special attack lets him leap great distances to his enemy. If he is able to pounce on one of thegood guys while leaping then he start to tear the guy a new one unless someone is able to push him off.
The smoker is one of the more interesting zombies in which he has a very long tongue that can sneer a dude from far a while wheeling him in to be attacked. The smoker is in fact a great example as to why never get to far away from your teammates. My favorite zombie has to be the Boomer, While weaker then any of the others his special attack make him one of the most feared. He is able to vomit over his targets which if hits one while alert the horde (lots ofcommon zombies) to the location of them where they will attack the one or ones who been covered in puke. To make matters worse if you kill the boomer to close he will blow up covering everyone near by in vomit.
Now brings us to the two most fear zombies, first being the Tank. The Tank is what you expect a zombie to look like pumped full of steroids, he's mean , strong and pretty fast, He so strong he able to hit cars making them fly at you or throw large lumps of concrete at you from far away. The Witch a female Infected who seems more human then any of them but startling her is the worst thing to do, she will run at the person who made her angry with great speed and will start attacking themsometimes killing in one hit.
All apart from the common zombies and the witch are playable in the gameplay mode called versus. Versus is pretty much campaign but instead of just the four survivor there also 4 player controlled zombies that are out to kill the good guys before they get to the safe house. This makes for some really fun competitive gameplay that just enough different from the campaign. While fun I seem to noticed one thing. A good team of Infected while most the time beat a team of good survivor so in a way it becomes a game of who can get the closet to the safe house.
The other gameplay mode is campaign that can be played by either Ai controlled Survivor or player controlled. The singleplayer is pretty dull because this game is meant to be played with four other people and in harder gameplay modes the AI is just not up to scratch against the AI director. What is the AI director you ask, well he affectedly what keep the game from being dull. He randomly is able to place zombies and items and such around the level. Because of this it makes each level just a little different from the last time you played it.
Even so L4D in the end is just greatly lacking in content. The 4 campaigns first time round should take just over and hour or so to get round which doesn't really make for much value. The versus mode does make things more enjoyable but even then if you don't have a good team it does make it rather dull. Don't let it sway you thought L4D is one of the better games to come out this year, while content is lacking its a game that can go leaps and bounds by having DLC and usercreated content in the future.
The Content is a letdown but the concept which strange enough hasn't been done much in this form is fantastic. In the end 4 or 8 guys playing this game screaming down mics is what makes this game great and different to anything else out on the market. Great character design and level layouts Left 4 Dead is must have.
L4D is pretty much put together of 4 zombie movies where you play as one of the four survivors who have to make there way out of the hell hole and to freedom. The 4 people are you typical zombies movie guys who u expect. Bill is aVietnam vet, Francis is the biker dude, Zoey the typical young female character and Louis who pretty much your run of mill kind of guy. While the characters are kind of like oh i bet it was really hard to come up with these 4 guys (sarcasm) they are kind of likable which due to fact that the voice actors do a great job in making each of them come to life. You can kind of believe that everythingthat's happening could go down.
To be honest the real stars of this game are zombies thought, there quite a few models of normal zombies but then again your not really looking at what they look like cause your mowing them down as fast as you can. There are also some special zombies who have evolved faster down the zombie treethat's gives them special attacks that's makes them much more fearsome then the common zombies, the Hunter is the most common of the special zombies, his special attack lets him leap great distances to his enemy. If he is able to pounce on one of thegood guys while leaping then he start to tear the guy a new one unless someone is able to push him off.
The smoker is one of the more interesting zombies in which he has a very long tongue that can sneer a dude from far a while wheeling him in to be attacked. The smoker is in fact a great example as to why never get to far away from your teammates. My favorite zombie has to be the Boomer, While weaker then any of the others his special attack make him one of the most feared. He is able to vomit over his targets which if hits one while alert the horde (lots ofcommon zombies) to the location of them where they will attack the one or ones who been covered in puke. To make matters worse if you kill the boomer to close he will blow up covering everyone near by in vomit.
Now brings us to the two most fear zombies, first being the Tank. The Tank is what you expect a zombie to look like pumped full of steroids, he's mean , strong and pretty fast, He so strong he able to hit cars making them fly at you or throw large lumps of concrete at you from far away. The Witch a female Infected who seems more human then any of them but startling her is the worst thing to do, she will run at the person who made her angry with great speed and will start attacking themsometimes killing in one hit.
All apart from the common zombies and the witch are playable in the gameplay mode called versus. Versus is pretty much campaign but instead of just the four survivor there also 4 player controlled zombies that are out to kill the good guys before they get to the safe house. This makes for some really fun competitive gameplay that just enough different from the campaign. While fun I seem to noticed one thing. A good team of Infected while most the time beat a team of good survivor so in a way it becomes a game of who can get the closet to the safe house.
The other gameplay mode is campaign that can be played by either Ai controlled Survivor or player controlled. The singleplayer is pretty dull because this game is meant to be played with four other people and in harder gameplay modes the AI is just not up to scratch against the AI director. What is the AI director you ask, well he affectedly what keep the game from being dull. He randomly is able to place zombies and items and such around the level. Because of this it makes each level just a little different from the last time you played it.
Even so L4D in the end is just greatly lacking in content. The 4 campaigns first time round should take just over and hour or so to get round which doesn't really make for much value. The versus mode does make things more enjoyable but even then if you don't have a good team it does make it rather dull. Don't let it sway you thought L4D is one of the better games to come out this year, while content is lacking its a game that can go leaps and bounds by having DLC and usercreated content in the future.
The Content is a letdown but the concept which strange enough hasn't been done much in this form is fantastic. In the end 4 or 8 guys playing this game screaming down mics is what makes this game great and different to anything else out on the market. Great character design and level layouts Left 4 Dead is must have.
