A PC and 360 game created by valve (creators of counter-strike). I played the demo and I think it is really great. I want to know your opinions.

Well advertised...

In fact I was very shocked to wander in to Victoria Station last week on my way in to London and see Left For Dead advertisements imprinted all over the floors and wall signs everywhere, I just hope it's good enought to justify all that redecorating :P.

Zombie game...in a next gen consol OMG! Call me when they make a "High School of the Dead" into a game. Seriously, they should make the zombies and the weapons and weapon's availability more realistic.

I played the demo on the 360 and it is really fast paced and fun.

Intense.

I've been playing the demo with my friend and I have to say that it is one HELL of a cock-tease. You literally get sucked in after the first two stages and honestly the build up is enough to have you asking for more.

The sheer amount of 'zombies' is insane and getting bum rushed by hordes of them randomly really can get your heart pumping. This is what I've been wanting from a undead game. I want a game that is literally filled with things like them, to the point of where you actually feel overwhelmed. A game where you are forced to think on your toes and have to work quickly and efficiently. It's even better they incorporated it with co-op play.

My only complain is the partner AI. Far too often a computer team mate gets in my way, which is even more frustrating in a game like Left 4 Dead because of the sheer mass amount of enemies. However, I do think on the overall they play intelligently and are a huge help. I'm really looking forward to playing a full game with actual people and seeing how it works.

Alas, I would so buy this game if I didn't already spend over my gaming budget for this fall/winter. I guess I'll just continue to taunt myself with L4D until the demo expires. I played it on the PC and I absolutely loved it. I couldn't imagine playing L4D on a console, simply due to how heavy things get. Nothing beats a mouse + keyboard in that situation.

Absolutely adored the demo I want to get it but all my friends are getting it for the PC and my computer is too crappy to run L4D D:

I love the game so far, it also has great replay value. I've been playing the demo and have been going through the levels again finding new areas that we did not explore previously.
This could be played on console, but the joystick sensitivity might have to be an option to adjust.
Also I love how hordes of zombies will spawn near your characters and then come rushing at your team from the darkness, forcing you not to stay in one place for too long.
The odd part to me is that light drives the zombies nuts, but I need the damn light on in dark areas to SEE them but if I don't have it on they don't notice you as fast. Although this plays into the pipe bomb, and how it's the best weapon in the game because of the blinking light on it makes the zombies run to it and stand around it like dumbfounded children until it explodes.

It's really great to see the boss zombies because most of them force team work, especially the smokers, and the witches.

From what I've played I really enjoy it so far. It's well on it's way to being my fave game of the year after Gears of War 2. There's nothing quite like being chased by a horde of Zombies just to shut the door on them at the very last second, or when you bump into a Tank on Expert Mode and watching your whole team get annihilated while you try to run away.

The demo allows you to play 4 player coop on 2 lvls.The beauty of it is the lvl is never the same twice,I don't mean like theres 5 diffrent versions,theres an endless amount of things that can happen depending on the difficulty your on and how well or bad your doing.

The mic is key tho I played one game where no one used their mic and we barly made it out alive as everyone was acting like idiots.Another game the 4 of us all used mics and worked as a efficent team and it was alot of fun.

The full game is actualy 8 players as 4 other humans can control the 4 special types of zombie,but the demo just has the 4 player human coop.

Anyway I will give some basic info about the game as it doesn't really explain things,but this way you wont feel like a noob going in:

First off there are 5 special monsters besides the zombie.

The Smoker:Think of the licker from resident evil it can apear across the room,above you,below you and it grabs you with its long tonge when this happens your teamates either have to break the tonge or kill the smoker,when the smoker dies it releases a bunch of smoke that clogs your vision and makes your charcters cough.There easy to kill,but can sneak up ony ou.

The Boomer:Big fat zombie,slow and easy to kill,but if they throw up on you a giant swarm of zombies will zerg the person with barf on them which a good team would then protect that teamate/s or a bad team would run for their lifes and ditch them :P Basicly if you see a boomer shoot it before it throws up on some one.

The Hunter:Looks kind of like a normal zombie but it jumps on you and mounts to the floor and some one has to get it off you.It can also climb walls and jump very far.

The Tank:Think of a giant tyrant from resident evil,big,lots of hp,does alot of dmg,if you see one best to run if its directed at you,but not run like a mad man,run in a way where the other teamates can slowly shoot it down,kiteing it if you will.

The Witch:This is the only boss monster not playable by other people,its naturaly passive,you can tell your close one when you hear a women crying, don't shine your flashlight on her,don't shoot her, don't touch her.Depending on the diffuculty lvl she can kill you in 1 hit.While she can be killed she is built like a tank as far as dmg and hp go,avoid her.

Regular zombies:These just run at you like crazed lunatics,easy when theres a few,alot can overwhelm you.



Some tips:

The flashlight is important as alot of the areas are dark,but can also give you away, as can other things that make sound,don't stand close to cars you may set off a car alarm,don't break random glass to make noise.

The object of each map is to get to the safe room one there you restock on ammo and health packs and go to the next area.

You can only carry 2 guns,well 3 if you count dual wield pistols as 2 guns.Your pistol has unlimited ammo,but still needs to reload each clip,you can find a 2nd one and dual wield them.You can choose one primary gun that has limited ammo,so don't be wastefull.

Such guns as the shot gun,auto shotgun,uzi,assualt rifel,sniper rifel is what I have seen so far.There are also pipeboms and molitif cocktails as well.

Becareful tho as friendly fire is on so watch how you shoot and how you blow things up.

You can cary 1 health pack at a time which you can use to heal your self or a teamate,so if your at 80 health and your partner no longer has his health pack and is at 20,its probaly best to heal him up because its gonna be alot harder to survive if your alone.

I have also seen painpills which you can carry in adtion to a health pack,they give a temp health boost,good for oh crap moments,but after the duration they fade returning you to what ever health you had before,so not as good as a health pack.

Its never a good idea to split up,because anything can happen at anytime. Just when you think your safe a smoker may grab you and pull you out a window and if your alone,your dead.


Some examples of the randomness I have witnessed so far.

-We were in the subeway and traveling through the broken trains and a earthquake happend,but it wasn't an earthquake,it was a tank at the other end of the train and charged us and we all got on our mic and screamed for everyone to run backwords out of the train, we all made it out and it slamed me into a wall,but I poped some painkillers and my teamates were able to zerg it down before it finished me off.

-A witch spawned of all places right infront of the saferoom door, this happend on the team that wouldn't use mics,so one bozo goes up and touchs her and she jumps up all crazy like and rips him a new one while the rest of the team panicly shoots her I run behind her and lock my self in the safe room as they die .Hey it may have been evil,but they brought that death upon themselves.



Anyway this games is simply awesome.Words can not express its awesomeness. Yes at its core its valves source engine so if you played half life 2 or what not you know the general feeling of the gameplay,but the way the lvls are set up,the randomness, the true teamwork needed,the since of acomplishment knowing you saved your teamates life ect is just great.

Someone still claimed this game would move to PS3 after 3months since release day, well i gonna play PC version anyway.

Wow, I play CSS all the time and I saw the demo available for this game...didn't really give it much thought but judging by the very positive reactions I'm gonna try it. Thanks! Maybe this'll cause me to become a bit less addicted to CS, lol.

I played the demo too, and it was really fun. the monsters and the weapons are placed at random so its different every time.

Yup, I also played the demo. All together with my friends one time in my house and it was CRAZY. Two of us were actually good with fps games, but the others wasn't favoured for fps that much so it was hard to do team work. But once you talk through to your team mates and all, its so much fun. I'm thinking of buying the 4 pack for $150, but i have to talk it over with my friends.

My brother got this yester-day If im not mistaken , I have not played it yet , but he says its very entertaining , and one of my other friends is planing on buying the game soon so I may give it a try ween I find some time . but over all I have never been rilly interested in zombie games.

Im used to zoombie modes on CSS but i tryed L4D demo and love it, might buy it eventually but not yet

This game is sooo much fun, best when you're playing with friends. The friendly fire thing annoys me sometimes.. but thats because I get trigger happy.. especially when a horde of zombies just charges at you outta nowhere. The Witch music is hilarious, I dont know why I get the giggles when I hear it when all my team mates are all "Oh no! A witch, we're doomed!" (*cue idiot giggling in the backround*)
Single player is fun but the A.I of your team mates is annoying, once I threw a pipebomb into a room full of zombies and Louis starts shooting them all down before the bomb even explodes...