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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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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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Left 4 Dead
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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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Close to perfection
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Left 4 Dead offers one of the most intense gaming experiences of all times, raging zombie hordes coming from all directions, mutated bodybuilders throwing cars at you, long tongued freaks trying to strangle you from a roof top and much more. And everything is wrapped up in a beatifully balanced ...
Reviewed by EntwineX on March 26, 2009
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Full price for a half game?
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If someone told me last year that I would be tricked into paying 50 bucks for a game with 4 levels, I'm not sure I would have believed that anyone would even release a game like that, much less that I would buy it. But that's exactly what happened with ...
Reviewed by Wess on Jan. 8, 2009
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Short Review
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Originally posted on my blogThere was a day, back in my youth, when I abhorred first-person shooters. Sure, I played some Goldeneye here and there with my friends, but I was never a Doom, Unreal, or Halo fan. Then something spectacular happened: a company that I’d heard of, but avoided ...
Reviewed by el33tcapitan on May 29, 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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The foundations are set for a great IP...
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It's just a shame that Left 4 Dead isn't great itself yet.I want to really like Left 4 Dead but it's lacking in content and has a few issues which badly break the game right now. For example if you do not have friends who can play it with you ...
Reviewed by PapaLazarou on Dec. 21, 2008
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Valve is still king of the FPS genre.
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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
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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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Now's your chance to play hero.
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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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One of the best games to play when your friends come over!
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What a rocking game! My friend and and i can't seem to get enough of it. Choosing your fave character, getting out in the streets, and killing the undead is awesome. The game has no straight story. The main plot is that a zombie apocalypse has hit the world, and ...
Reviewed by armaan8014 on Sept. 8, 2009
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Reloading!
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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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Another masterpiece by the one and only
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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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Slightly brain-dead.
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When you break Left 4 Dead down to its core components it's a relatively basic game; you grab some items, run through a level shooting countless common infected, fight a few special infected, and eventually seek shelter at the next safe house ad nauseam. Left 4 Dead has a bare ...
Reviewed by KnightsofRound on Nov. 16, 2009
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Pure Online Multiplayer Fun
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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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Killing Zombies has Never Been so Great
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Valve has once again mastered the art of multiplayer gaming when they released Left 4 dead for Xbox 360 and PC. Left 4 dead takes cooperative gameplay and combines it with good 'ol fashioned zombie blasting. You and your friends play any of the 4 survivors and must survive the ...
Reviewed by Scientist on April 4, 2009
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RELOADING!
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Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead, the latest game from PC shooter dev Valve, is a game where you kill (rekill?) zombies. Lots of zombies. In it's current state, it is a bit disappointing in terms of content, but based on Valve's wonderful track record of adding content to their ...
Reviewed by Yit on Nov. 21, 2008
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Efficient and refined, L4D is sure to please anyone with a brain.
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L4D is a hard game, no doubt about it. In this game only cooperation with your teammates will keep you alive in the gruesome zombie apocalypse. If you try to be a lone wolf you'll most likely get killed by by a hunter or smoker (some of the special infected).With ...
Reviewed by Trision on Nov. 30, 2008
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Hello Zombie
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Left 4 Dead Review Valve previously famous for their Half life franchise, has now once again hit the nail on the head with Left 4 Dead, a zombie first person shooter. These aren't your every day slow moving zombies, no, they are your fast paced 28 days later zombies, and ...
Reviewed by canadiantoastzombie on Feb. 10, 2009
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Best. Zombie Apocalypse. Ever. ( PC ) Reviewed by MoTheHawk on Nov. 26, 2008 |
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killing zombies is such fun!
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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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Absolutely awesome.
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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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Left 4 Dead is a thrilling zombie nightmare.
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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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TAAAANK!
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I love this game.I got the demo for this game back in october, and played it pretty much all the time. The fact that there was only 2 parts of 1 level to play and only the campaign, did not decrease my enjoyment at all, and when I ran out ...
Reviewed by will2k123 on Jan. 8, 2009
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Valve's vision of survival horror is fully realized
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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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This game is SICK!!!!
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This game, like I said in the title, is super sick! There is no wait period, no epilogue, no training map. it just throws you into the action. And apart from the needed break here and there, the action doesn't stop. Normal difficulty doesn't seem so hard at first, but ...
Reviewed by fildznuts on Nov. 19, 2008
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I feel like a movie star!
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Playing a few moments of Left 4 Dead will remind you of scenes from “Dawn of the Dead”, “28 Days Later” and countless other what I call fast-mover zombie movies. Every level or "Act" in the game has a tidy beginning and climactic last stand defense before the survivors can ...
Reviewed by Hoshnasi on Nov. 19, 2008
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Left 4 Dead
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This game is alot of fun if you have 3 friends handy, it boils down to essencialy a 4 player co-op linear shooter, where there is a serious threat of not passing the level (unlike halo). The controls are simple and efficient, and the weapons feel powerfull and familiar.In terms ...
Reviewed by delrobertto on Nov. 20, 2008
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Left 4 Dead is a game any zombie loving, online aficionado should
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When it was announced that Valve was working on a zombie game using the source engine, unprecedented excitement occurred. Many wondered what the creators of many beloved games would do next. When it was announced it would be a mainly co-op game with a unique versus mode, more excitement only ...
Reviewed by FreshPrince on Nov. 30, 2008
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| Game Name | Left 4 Dead |
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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: 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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