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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.

    why so much hype?

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    #1  Edited By xplodedd

    hey,
    apparently everyone is chasing this game, loving it... and I think i missed why.
    can anyone explain to me why it is so hyped (without flaming)?
    thanks...

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    #2  Edited By Termite

    Well, it's pretty rad looking!


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    #3  Edited By xplodedd
    Termite said:
    "Well, it's pretty rad looking!"
    yeah i get it, but whats so great about it if you know what i am saying.
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    #4  Edited By Rowr

    yeh it must look awesome. Everyone i have heard from who has seen it has been talking it up.

    I imagine thats where the hype is coming from. Valve doesnt really bother to hype their games, people do that for them.

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    #5  Edited By xplodedd
    Rowr said:
    "yeh it must look awesome. Everyone i have heard from who has seen it has been talking it up.

    I imagine thats where the hype is coming from. Valve doesnt really bother to hype their games, people do that for them."
    thats true expect for the meet the... tf2 series.
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    #6  Edited By banksrob

    valve are making it who are awesome, watch the gameplay and such it looks impressive

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    #7  Edited By tec3297

    What do you expect? It is Valve!

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    #8  Edited By ParanoidFreak

    The co-op play looks awesome.

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    #9  Edited By Psynapse

    I havn't really had a look at this one yet. But from the hype that its been creating it must have some potential.

    At least this isn't the whole 'hype it for 5 years and never come out/be a crap game' type of hype :P.

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    #10  Edited By xplodedd
    Psynapse said:
    "I havn't really had a look at this one yet. But from the hype that its been creating it must have some potential.

    At least this isn't the whole 'hype it for 5 years and never come out/be a crap game' type of hype :P."
    are you talking about duke nukem forever?? :P
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    #11  Edited By Sasrollo

    I think it will be awesome just to sit down with your buddies and kill sum zombies together in the dark.
    We finally have a zombie co/op game,  the good old days, garrys mod, and ccs zombie survivor server.

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    #13  Edited By Benjamin

    Well a couple of reasons: Valve make awesome games: Co-op is certifiably awesome: Co-op to kill zombies is also certifiably awesome also :)

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    #14  Edited By thebeast

    As everyone said:

    • Name a bad Valve game.
    • Co-Op kicks ass.
    • Zombies.
    • Explosions.
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    #15  Edited By MichaelScott

    Zombies.

    Co-Op.

    Source Engine (frickin' gorgeous.)

    Guns.

    What's not to love? Its gonna be sweet!

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    #16  Edited By Scorched

    ever played a zombie mod
    they're always really fun but just not very polished
    valve is making a polished zombie game
    no one has done anything like it before

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    It's Valve.

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    #18  Edited By DarkLegend

    Because the game looks good and promising. 

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    #19  Edited By Hamz

    Its an online co-op zombie survival game made by Valve. That pretty much gets everyones attention to be honest lol. Plus the game does look pretty good visually, even for the ageing Source Engine. That and i've already seen people looking to buy this so they can make mods for it to create whole new content for the game and the Source Engine is notoriously popular for how effective and easy it is to create mods.

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    #20  Edited By Nemesis

    Online co-op game where you kill zombies, whats not to love. Plus the community around this is going to be pretty big considering it is a Valve game.

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    #21  Edited By epic_pets

    cause its a zombi game

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    #22  Edited By tec3297

      Hamz said: 

    "Its an online co-op zombie survival game made by Valve. That pretty much gets everyones attention to be honest lol. Plus the game does look pretty good visually, even for the ageing Source Engine. That and i've already seen people looking to buy this so they can make mods for it to create whole new content for the game and the Source Engine is notoriously popular for how effective and easy it is to create mods.
    "
    Valve's games have always had a very big modding community, and it will be really interesting to see what they do with Left 4 Dead.
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    #23  Edited By kenzo287

    Because it's the greatest zombie game ever

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    #24  Edited By ZombieHunterOG
    Kenzo287 said:
    "Because it's the greatest zombie game ever

    Correction this will be the greatest zombie game ever when it comes out 
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    #25  Edited By breadfan

    What's better than killing some zombies with your friends?

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    #26  Edited By RedSox8933

    i want to see a review before i buy it, which i probably won't anyway.

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    #27  Edited By badsmalltalker

    I think it looks awesome because I always have more fun in co-op games than multiplayer, and also because its 28 days later zombies instead of resident evil zombies.

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    #28  Edited By calf_exercises

    one word, valve.
    they are yet to make a bad game

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