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Four Survivors And Bloodthirsty Zombies: What Could Go Wrong?
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Many games have tried to show what the inevitable zombie apocalypse will look like, but simply put, Left 4 Dead is the most exciting and original survival horror game to hit the market. The majority of the shooters out there tend to thicken the line between multiplayer and single player ...
Reviewed by natetodamax on April 25, 2009
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Left 4 Dead offers superb cooperative play
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X360
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Valve has been known for creating some of the most memorable games to grace the PC and more recently the Xbox 360. Left 4 Dead is the latest hit game to be released from the company and brings together the joy of slaughtering hundreds of zombies with the ability to ...
Reviewed by Br3adfan on Jan. 1, 2009
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5 out of 5 found this review helpful. |
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This game alone, is a reason for you to be "Grabbin' Pills"
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Left 4 Dead is a shooter from Valve, which was originally being developed by Turtle Rock Studios. It places the player in post-apocalyptic zombie environment, the player and his 3 companions must naviagate their way through the level to the safe house. While on the way to the safe house ...
Reviewed by FlamingHobo on May 15, 2009
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2 out of 2 found this review helpful. |
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Left 4 Dead: BOOM! Headshot!
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Short and to the Point Left 4 Dead By: mrhankey To be honest, I recently have found it hard to get very excited over a game. Seriously, Fallout 3 was, well, meh. Spore, became frustrating towards the end. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky I haven’t touched since I bought it a month ...
Reviewed by mrhankey on Nov. 28, 2008
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2 out of 2 found this review helpful. |
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Left 4 Dead unbias review
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4/5 starsLeft 4 Dead offers some incredibly creative ideas and executes them well, but the problems with it are minor and can be forgotten once your knee deep in shotgun shells and zombie bodies.the good-*enemy AI is phenomenal*friendly is acceptable*takes everything a step further in cooperative gameplay*sound effects are immersive*in-game ...
Reviewed by Godlyawesomeguy on April 15, 2009
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1 out of 1 found this review helpful. |
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Left 4 Dead Review
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X360
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Left 4 Dead is the kind of game that comes around once every four or five years that makes you seriously look at what "multiplayer" is and how it can be improved upon. With titles like Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: World at War offering their Horde ...
Reviewed by jakob187 on Nov. 21, 2008
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1 out of 1 found this review helpful. |
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Left 4 Dead
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PC
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The title is wrong. Its not Left 4 Dead. Its Left 4 MOTHERFUCKING ITS BRILLIANT Dead. Thats how good it is. Zombies and games go together like butter and toast. Its fulfils our desires to shoot something without that person being a human. Left 4 Dead transports us to various ...
Reviewed by Seraphim2150 on March 3, 2009
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Left 4 Dead Review
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I've been playing Left 4 Dead for several months now and can easily say it is one of the best FPS games i have ever played, It is so well designed and melds so well that it creates a fantastic single and multiplayer experience.I am a big fan of stories ...
Reviewed by Ferginator4k on March 2, 2009
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Like having a beer in the backyard, but with a mouse in your hand
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When I think FPS, I normally think 15-20 weapon types, at least half of them with an alternate firing mode, 15-20 minutes of mowing down the same enemy with a different hat, pants, or skin color over and over until you reach a room on the other side of the ...
Reviewed by Krakn3Dfx on Feb. 26, 2009
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Now's your chance to play hero.
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PC
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I know in my youth whenever I watched zombie horror movies I thought to myself 'I think I could handle myself if this happened to me.' It might only be a game, but Left 4 Dead is what you could essentially call a Zombie Apocalypse Simulator and one fantastic one ...
Reviewed by finalkross on Jan. 11, 2009
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A terrific Co-op experiance.
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X360
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ProsSome of the best Team Based action around. Versus mode is a good way to mix things up when you've played the campaign to bits. It's good at making you jump. ConsOnly four maps which on Normal at least can be done within an hour or so each, so the ...
Reviewed by Dimsey on Nov. 23, 2008
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A truly thrilling co-op experience...
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X360
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Just when it seemed Capcom had successfully cornered the zombie horror market with the Resident Evil series, out of nowhere pounces Valve's Left 4 Dead, with its surprisingly lucrative co-op-focused take on the survival horror game. It seems the developers of the Half Life and Counter Strike series' had some ...
Reviewed by Retrogimp on Jan. 17, 2009
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Pure Online Multiplayer Fun
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PC
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Left 4 Dead is from Valve, the huge PC developer that create the Half-Life Series, Counterstrike, Portal, and Team Fortress. Valve doesn't put out a whole lot of games, but the ones they do put out are always quality games, and Left 4 Dead is another. It is available for ...
Reviewed by SJSchmidt93 on March 10, 2009
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Nevermind the Bollocks, here's the Zombies!
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X360
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That's what they should have called this game. No long winded story about vials in labs or infected monkeys, just "You are here, you need to get there, there are zombies in the middle, go." In short this is the perfect Zombie game, just because there is so little to ...
Reviewed by jonnyboy on June 11, 2009
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Left 4 Dead, an experience you won't forget!
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X360
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In short: It's a great shooter that's different every time you re play it. Although I do feel like it has no real story, it only adds to the replay value in my opinion. It's a game you can play over and over again and still find it just as ...
Reviewed by Demean on June 3, 2009
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Valve is still king of the FPS genre.
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PC
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Valve’s latest First Person Shooter Left 4 Dead takes place two weeks after the outbreak of a zombie virus. We are introduced to four survivors: Bill, Francis, Louis and Zoey. We are not given any details to their back stories or the cause of the zombie infestation. Rather, this intense ...
Reviewed by biggest_loser on Jan. 11, 2009
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Left 4 Dead Review
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X360
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Left 4 Dead is a game for the XBOX360 console in which you will be assuming the role of 1 of 4 different characters. You and the other 3 characters are survivors of a zombie infestation. It is your job to navigate through levels (or scenes) to try to get ...
Reviewed by Altered_Confusion on Sept. 15, 2009
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One-trick zombie
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X360
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Valve is a developer that takes their time when making games. When they do release a title, it's usually of high quality- the problems tend to come in the quantity department. And their newest venture, Left 4 Dead, is no different. "Zombie survival horror" has simply never been done this ...
Reviewed by MajorMitch on Dec. 25, 2008
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Left 4 Dead is a thrilling zombie nightmare.
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PC
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To start off, I'll say that Left 4 Dead is one of the best games of the year, as seems to be typical of a game released by Valve, who have been on a roll for years now. Although it is not as content-packed as last year's legendarily overstuffed Orange ...
Reviewed by SwollenFridge on Jan. 1, 2009
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Left 4 Dead -- Where You'll Find Me
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X360
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most first person shooters are designed to transplant gamers into other worlds, times or places of imagination. picking up new weapons, you take on the role of one-man army leading other non-playable characters to checkpoint after checkpoint until you reach the ending that will culminate in another sequel.and then, there’s left ...
Reviewed by clumsyg on Aug. 26, 2009
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killing zombies is such fun!
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PC
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have the full game, really, this game is FUN!the campaigns are not too long, so if you wanna take a brake from work to kill some zombies, this is it.if you play in 'Advance' mode you won't find it that easy, i haven't even tried 'Expert' yet.yes, 5 campaigns is ...
Reviewed by igalalkon on Nov. 20, 2008
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Left 4 Dead
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PC
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A slight lack of content and a few connection issues are the only things holding back one of the most enjoyable shooting experiences I've had in years. The normal gameplay isn't particularly deep; there are only a few weapons and a few types of enemies. They're not particularly smart. There's ...
Reviewed by Adrenaline on Nov. 23, 2008
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Another masterpiece by the one and only
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PC
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This game is great ! and I mean amazing ! at first I was not into it at all and it was the last game I ever wanted to buy. However, things changed. This game has one of the greatest multiplayer experiences you will ever encounter. Playing it with all ...
Reviewed by kodmani on June 14, 2009
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Absolutely awesome.
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PC
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It’s tough to not associate Valve with quality at this point, so it’s no surprise to see that their latest, Left 4 Dead, is completely awesome. It successfully blends the cinematic and grandiose qualities of their single-player epics with the social and competitive chaos that’s associated with all great multi-player ...
Reviewed by Ping5000 on Nov. 25, 2008
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Valve's vision of survival horror is fully realized
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PC
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Looking back, only a game or two that I can think of have actually attempted to take on the zombie apocalypse in online form, throwing players–competitively or cooperatively–into a world decimated by plague and letting them decide the final outcome that would ultimately tell the fate of their world. Games ...
Reviewed by Kombat on Dec. 31, 2008
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Reloading!
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PC
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Whenever Valve announces a game, they tell you everything beforehand, maybe leave one thing hidden for some other event and go silent. Absolute dead on silent. Pretty much the same thing happened with Left 4 Dead. They told what they needed to: AI Director, Co-op, Zombies and more Zombies. Then ...
Reviewed by Zereta on Jan. 8, 2009
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Mmmm, Smoker Dust
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X360
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There is no better indicator of what kind of year 2008 was with releases of shooters that treaded new ground in platforming, role-playing, and the infected taking over the world one campaign at a time. In the latter’s case, it also pushed multiplayer into an interesting direction. Credit to Valve ...
Reviewed by Godzilla_Sushi on Jan. 9, 2009
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Left 4 Dead Review for Xbox 360
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X360
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Left 4 Dead is a first-person shooter from the guys that made the Half-Life and Half-Life 2 series. The game has 4 levels with each containing 5 sub-levels. The guns in the games are very limited, you get a SMG, Shotgun, Auto-Shotgun, Sniper-rifle, and last an Assault-rifle. Control's for ...
Reviewed by SmashedControllers on March 15, 2009
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Flashlights off!!!
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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 ...
Reviewed by Hagzor on Jan. 1, 2009
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"Left 4 Dead" is the surprise hit of the year
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X360
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At PAX 2008, I saw a booth for "Left 4 Dead" and passed it by, thinking it was some lame adaptation of "House of the Dead" from my childhood arcade days. Boy, did I eat my words. "Left 4 Dead" is without a doubt the surprise hit of the year. ...
Reviewed by fuzzysquash on Feb. 5, 2009
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| Game Name | Left 4 Dead |
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| Original US Release |
Nov. 18, 2008
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November
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| Aliases | L4D |
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OFLC: MA15+
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| BBFC |
BBFC: 18
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| ESRB |
ESRB: M
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| CERO |
CERO: Z
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Left 4 Dead Achievement Guide
This achievement guide will walk you through the easiest ways to achieve the full 1000 points.
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Console Commands
A list of all the console commands available in the PC version of left 4 dead.
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Left 4 Dead Guide to Winning as Infected
Simply knowing how to play each type of Infected is not enough to win against experienced players. You have play smart. This guide discusses team tactics for playing as Infected
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Versus Guide
A basic guide for Versus Mode
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