Post by Steve Farrelly @ 04:37pm 02/12/08 | 25 Comments
I don't need to say much more, so I'll let the game's packaging do it for me:
"Four survivors in an epic struggle... Fighting hordes of swarming zombies. Can you survive the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE?"
Genius.
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Posted 05:25pm 02/12/08
stupid 'real life' in the way of things
Posted 05:54pm 02/12/08
Posted 07:45pm 02/12/08
Part 1: Playing COOP as survivors against the AI infected horde - just awesome
Part 2: Playing versus as either Survivor OR infected - not finished
They added the play as infected part as an after-thought, as fun as it is it needs way more work to work...
FYI - buying it for Part 1 is MORE than worth the investment!
Posted 07:49pm 02/12/08
Posted 08:21pm 02/12/08
Posted 08:39pm 02/12/08
Posted 09:57pm 02/12/08
You make it sound flawed rather then still being built upon but the mode is more fun after you've done co-op a lot.
L4D really must be played online, and after 40+ hours i'm only playing 1 or 2 games of it a day. There is a mod community building though http://www.l4dmods.com/
Making new campaigns and such. It's good as a casual game, just play for an hour every now and then or else repeditivity starts to get to me.
Posted 10:00pm 02/12/08
why'd you cancel?
Posted 10:19pm 02/12/08
- it's a great game on lan...
- accidently shooting your team-mates while they're being horded by zombies (thanks to online lag) is just ghey.
- needs more local servers.
funny how more and more FPS games are best played in a zero-ping environment :/
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Posted 10:24pm 02/12/08
Posted 10:34pm 02/12/08
Any f***up or friendly fire incident that causes a wipe is just laughed off and you then pickup and go again.
I found pug groups sometimes take it all a bit too seriously. That said I've had some great pug groups, some players which I have and will go around with again.
@varchld: thanks for the link!
Posted 10:50pm 02/12/08
and as it's valve, I have no doubt that they'll release more content.
just finished a marathon 7 or so hour 3 campaign run with minxy and some randoms. great fun.
Posted 12:04am 03/12/08
however i have just installed it and SP works fine. dunno about MP.
Posted 12:09am 03/12/08
HELP US CHUB!
Posted 12:10am 03/12/08
Also, he broke the server!
Posted 12:20am 03/12/08
But after a few games, I was absolutely loving it, I cackle with crazy laughter each time I'm a hunter and get one of the survivors off by himself and rip him to absolute shreds. Or when you jump on someone, and get knocked off, but they neglect to actually kill you, so you go jump back on, love it :)
Posted 12:37am 03/12/08
Posted 07:21am 03/12/08
Also that server sucked, I don't play VS on Normal because it's completely pointless and even 4 tanks on a finale can't dint a skilled survivor team, 2/1hp per zombie hit with unlimited melee can suck my ass.
But yeah, that server really didn't like the callvote :(
Posted 09:50am 03/12/08
english version is fine. exactly the same as US
Posted 10:07am 03/12/08
Posted 12:42pm 04/12/08
When Treyarch made Quantum of Solace they said "Oh we love playing Goldeneye as multiplayer" but the multiplayer in QoS was just like that of COD5. Uninspirational, Shotgun overpowerd, trying to imitate COD4 and boring. The only good part was taking cover which isn't even worth it with the overpowered shotgun.
Left 4 Dead is the best multiplayer & coop I've played this year. Funny how Valve says "What TF2 did for TEAMPLAY... Left 4 Dead will do for cooperative gameplay." and that's what was delivered. FUN GAMEPLAY not the repetitive broken gameplay of go to X -> kill, blow up, etc (oh but wiait your limited by how many diamonds you have oh you just have to go out and find them... oh but wait your only in the first part of the game you have to go and find the weapon convoy...) *cough* Far Cry 2 *cough*
Left 4 Dead just works. Sure it was the whole melee quick switch thing but that will get fixed in time. New maps will be made and stuff will be added. SDK will be released while Far Cry 2's SDK isn't released. Get your friends to get Left 4 Dead. We can't tell you why its awesome it just is.
Posted 09:30pm 04/12/08
Posted 12:06am 05/12/08
Posted 08:14pm 20/12/08
Posted 02:42am 23/12/08
1. The Action in the game is just as good as the Action in the cinematics
2. Graphics and Physics are amazing and run on lowerish end PCs
3. The gameplay is unbelievably balanced.
4. BLOOD AND GUTZ SLAUGHTERFEST! Need i say more?
5. The netcode is awesome.
6. The server browser is as simple as "Join game in progress" takes about 10 seconds and you're in. (doesnt realy matter if the server is far away because of the awesome netcode :P)
7. Movement of Zombies, Roles, behavior of AI, Maps, Lighting, Audio are all amazing.
8. The fact that if one of the 4 players on the survivors is off guard, all hell breaks loose and you have to pick each other back up, heal each other, all while fending off swarms and swarms of Zombies = win.
9. + Achievements are always fun.
So if you havent tryed it out already give it a whirl. Still yet to play it on LAN too :)
Also, this is just based on VS online. It was only after reading the whole thread that i realised there were two other game modes :S
last edited by Imperial at 02:42:50 23/Dec/08