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Steer Clear of the Witch!
Posted : 14 years, 10 months ago on 24 June 2009 11:09
I'm not one to play video games as crazy as this, but i am into watching my band mates play this game and i have had well over 100 hours time watching the destruction both on their side and the zombies and i have to say this is the best game i have seen in a long time. Choosing not only how to survive, but how to either help your team mates (npc's) or use their death to your advantage and survive and go on; this game not only challenges the mind but gives the eyes a treat equivalent to your favorite dessert.. whatever that may be. the whole network of actually being the smokers and boomers in someone else's game makes the challenge that much more difficult because unlike other games where computerized threats come your way, people from wherever are hunting you down with attacks such as close claws and distance such as pulling you to them and ripping you to shreds or heaving large rocks directly at you. Seeing the faces on people when they get lucky enough to become the tank on xbox live and they take all four members out of a campaign is priceless; like a L4D right to passage. good going L4D getting game of the year, Can't wait to see footage from L4D2!!
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Play it once and get INFECTED!
Posted : 15 years, 5 months ago on 22 November 2008 02:31
While laying on my back and being kicked, slashed, stomped and punched by multitude of rabid zombies, I empty magazine after magazine of my pistol ammo into the undead trying to ward off another horrible attack. My health bar slowly going down, I realize that I have reached the end of my game and that I will soon be dead. Just as I fired the last round from my trusty side arm and started to reload, what felt like the longest few seconds of the game, and I knew I might be lucky to take a few of these infected walking dead with me before I go. Just as I knew all hope was lost, the 10 or so moaning beasts around me found it hard to moan having just had their heads removed from a volley from several 12 Gauge shotguns. "Get up, I'm like half your size..." pipes out the young female character named Zoey as she gets me on my feat. She then proceeds to administer 1st aid on me with her remaining health pack telling me not to move this will only take a second. Moments ago I was on the floor, on my back no less, shooting and shouting waiting for the sweet release of death, and now I'm back to normal, because of friends.
Left 4 Dead takes you deep into the world of a Post Zombie Apocalypse like never before. So gone are the days of slow moving zombies who want too much on your brains with crackers and wine, and in comes the world of fast, angry, rabid zombies that will pounce on you, puke on you, choke you, and bash you into a world of pain. You are one of 4 survivors of said "end of days" and you have but 2 goals. Your 1st goal is to live, and your second goal is to make sure your team lives, because without them you are as good as dead. Say goodbye to running and gunning on your own, you will be torn to shreds by a lone hunter, or choked to death by a smoker. (I will explain that in further detail when I get to "the infected") Each of the survivors has a different personality, and as the game progresses you hear a taste of their identity with short come backs, pleas for help, and the occasional joke at the others expense. Honesty I personally hate when games try to be funny, cute or witty, and I usually loathe the dialogue the characters in game have in the heat of battle, but for once I actually enjoyed the dialogue in the game. I mean what can break the tension of a short elevator ride to an unknown but almost certain death than to hear some crazy Vietnam Vet whistle a little tune. The Characters are Zoey, Bill, Francis, and Louis...all simple common people forced to work as one to survive the new world full of the living dead.
Playing the Co-Op is probably the games strongest point, and the way they set it up is priceless. If you are joining a game that is not with a bunch of friends you get randomly thrown into a game with 3 other souls that you have never met before and have never gamed before. Since you don’t know each other and each others gaming style it’s a lot like being thrust into a zombie apocalypse with a bunch of people you don’t know, which I am sure that is what the game was going for. You have no choice but to cover each others back, if one person decides to go play loan gunman they will learn very fast when they meet their fate under the gnawing power of a pissed off hunter. The game has a feature which I have heard called "the overseer" and this feature judges your progress and throws hurdles in your way to see how you deal with them. For example, you and your fellow warriors have reached a part in the map and have done so with speed, and ease, nothing can stop you, you are the best of the best and those stupid zombies can bugger off. Then a boomer comes in, pukes on two of your guys, the puke draws the sent and hordes of zombies come rushing from every corner on the map...while you are trying to fend off this "inhuman" wave assault you are grabbed from behind and pulled into a dark room by a smoker, who uses his tongue to lasso you and choke you to death. While you are off being choked, and the other 2 who have just been vomited on are in a blind daze fighting off hundreds, your loan buddy comes to stop you from being choked to death by a smoker, and he is in turn pounced on by a Hunter who proceeds to slash his way deep into your skin and tear you apart. Within seconds a friendly game of "I got the most headshots" turns into "where is everyone". Never walk alone, or you will die.
The versus mode is the most fun I have had on a shooter since I killed a dual gatling gun carrying Hitler in Wolfenstien 3D. At the start in the lobby you choose your character, either one of the infected or one of the survivors. If you spawn as a survivor you play through the level like normal, only now you have to worry about the zombies a little more because they are no longer AI zombies. As the infected you can play the roles of the Hunter, the Smoker, the boomer, and the Tank. All these roles are selected at random. The Hunter is a fast, deadly zombie who has the ability to pounce on a survivor and from there he proceeds to rip your flesh off and slash you into tiny bits while he screams and barks at you. The Smoker has the ability to lash out his tongue and lasso you with it, he then drags you near him where he starts to choke you to death as other zombie hordes mass around you and rip at you. The boomer is a fat disgusting blob of a man, who waddles around throwing up on the survivors, the puke then sends out a message to all the hordes of zombies "dinner is served" and like a neon sign that says "free buffet" in come the zombie waves of destruction. The other thing about the boomer is...if he gets in close and you shot him, he spews out the vomit on you and anyone near you, enacting the same punishment. The tank is just what it sounds like; he is a huge beast that looks a lot like the Thing in a weird twisted, not really at all, kind of way. He will bash you, hurl giant rocks and chunks of a building at you and if the tank has his way he can kill your entire team very fast....team work is essential in taking down the tank.
Spawning in as the infected is quite interesting, you get to pick and choose where you spawn as long as it’s not to close to the survivors and they can’t see you spawn in. For example, they just cleared a floor out of an apartment building; you can spawn behind them and take them down 1 by 1 from behind. You can also spawn way ahead of them and work as a team and set up elaborate zombie ambushes, while playing online we set up quite a dozy. I was playing as the smoker, a friend of mine was playing the Boomer, and the others were hunters. The boomer was in a room that they just walked past...I was behind them and the 2 hunters were in rooms on either side of the hall from me. When they walked past the boomer he walked out and puked on 2 before he was shot, exploded and covered all 4 with the slime. I shot out my tongue and grabbed the man in the back, just at the 3 up front were attacked by a horde of zombies. The guy I grabbed yelled for his friends to come and save him so 2 came after him to save him and the other stayed behind to hold of the attack...then 2 hunters jumped the 2 saviors and the trap was complete. Eventually they were able to fight their way out of it, but at the cost of a lot of their ammo, 4 of their health packs...and plenty of time for us to set up another.
The one infected I mentioned before, but you cannot play is, is the witch. STAY AWAY FROM THE WITCH. The witch sounds like a crying woman and she will destroy you. She is usually sitting on the ground sobbing, leave her alone...don’t go near her and don’t shine a light on her. IF you piss off a witch some one on your team is going down at a minimum. She is fast, deadly, and will thrash you with her long razor hands.
This game is like no other I have ever played, and I strongly suggest this to anyone who has a desire to kill zombies, work as a team, and have fun. I have never had this much fun in a game and it really is a breath of fresh air for this gamer. Hope to see you all in the post apocalypse.
Left 4 Dead takes you deep into the world of a Post Zombie Apocalypse like never before. So gone are the days of slow moving zombies who want too much on your brains with crackers and wine, and in comes the world of fast, angry, rabid zombies that will pounce on you, puke on you, choke you, and bash you into a world of pain. You are one of 4 survivors of said "end of days" and you have but 2 goals. Your 1st goal is to live, and your second goal is to make sure your team lives, because without them you are as good as dead. Say goodbye to running and gunning on your own, you will be torn to shreds by a lone hunter, or choked to death by a smoker. (I will explain that in further detail when I get to "the infected") Each of the survivors has a different personality, and as the game progresses you hear a taste of their identity with short come backs, pleas for help, and the occasional joke at the others expense. Honesty I personally hate when games try to be funny, cute or witty, and I usually loathe the dialogue the characters in game have in the heat of battle, but for once I actually enjoyed the dialogue in the game. I mean what can break the tension of a short elevator ride to an unknown but almost certain death than to hear some crazy Vietnam Vet whistle a little tune. The Characters are Zoey, Bill, Francis, and Louis...all simple common people forced to work as one to survive the new world full of the living dead.
Playing the Co-Op is probably the games strongest point, and the way they set it up is priceless. If you are joining a game that is not with a bunch of friends you get randomly thrown into a game with 3 other souls that you have never met before and have never gamed before. Since you don’t know each other and each others gaming style it’s a lot like being thrust into a zombie apocalypse with a bunch of people you don’t know, which I am sure that is what the game was going for. You have no choice but to cover each others back, if one person decides to go play loan gunman they will learn very fast when they meet their fate under the gnawing power of a pissed off hunter. The game has a feature which I have heard called "the overseer" and this feature judges your progress and throws hurdles in your way to see how you deal with them. For example, you and your fellow warriors have reached a part in the map and have done so with speed, and ease, nothing can stop you, you are the best of the best and those stupid zombies can bugger off. Then a boomer comes in, pukes on two of your guys, the puke draws the sent and hordes of zombies come rushing from every corner on the map...while you are trying to fend off this "inhuman" wave assault you are grabbed from behind and pulled into a dark room by a smoker, who uses his tongue to lasso you and choke you to death. While you are off being choked, and the other 2 who have just been vomited on are in a blind daze fighting off hundreds, your loan buddy comes to stop you from being choked to death by a smoker, and he is in turn pounced on by a Hunter who proceeds to slash his way deep into your skin and tear you apart. Within seconds a friendly game of "I got the most headshots" turns into "where is everyone". Never walk alone, or you will die.
The versus mode is the most fun I have had on a shooter since I killed a dual gatling gun carrying Hitler in Wolfenstien 3D. At the start in the lobby you choose your character, either one of the infected or one of the survivors. If you spawn as a survivor you play through the level like normal, only now you have to worry about the zombies a little more because they are no longer AI zombies. As the infected you can play the roles of the Hunter, the Smoker, the boomer, and the Tank. All these roles are selected at random. The Hunter is a fast, deadly zombie who has the ability to pounce on a survivor and from there he proceeds to rip your flesh off and slash you into tiny bits while he screams and barks at you. The Smoker has the ability to lash out his tongue and lasso you with it, he then drags you near him where he starts to choke you to death as other zombie hordes mass around you and rip at you. The boomer is a fat disgusting blob of a man, who waddles around throwing up on the survivors, the puke then sends out a message to all the hordes of zombies "dinner is served" and like a neon sign that says "free buffet" in come the zombie waves of destruction. The other thing about the boomer is...if he gets in close and you shot him, he spews out the vomit on you and anyone near you, enacting the same punishment. The tank is just what it sounds like; he is a huge beast that looks a lot like the Thing in a weird twisted, not really at all, kind of way. He will bash you, hurl giant rocks and chunks of a building at you and if the tank has his way he can kill your entire team very fast....team work is essential in taking down the tank.
Spawning in as the infected is quite interesting, you get to pick and choose where you spawn as long as it’s not to close to the survivors and they can’t see you spawn in. For example, they just cleared a floor out of an apartment building; you can spawn behind them and take them down 1 by 1 from behind. You can also spawn way ahead of them and work as a team and set up elaborate zombie ambushes, while playing online we set up quite a dozy. I was playing as the smoker, a friend of mine was playing the Boomer, and the others were hunters. The boomer was in a room that they just walked past...I was behind them and the 2 hunters were in rooms on either side of the hall from me. When they walked past the boomer he walked out and puked on 2 before he was shot, exploded and covered all 4 with the slime. I shot out my tongue and grabbed the man in the back, just at the 3 up front were attacked by a horde of zombies. The guy I grabbed yelled for his friends to come and save him so 2 came after him to save him and the other stayed behind to hold of the attack...then 2 hunters jumped the 2 saviors and the trap was complete. Eventually they were able to fight their way out of it, but at the cost of a lot of their ammo, 4 of their health packs...and plenty of time for us to set up another.
The one infected I mentioned before, but you cannot play is, is the witch. STAY AWAY FROM THE WITCH. The witch sounds like a crying woman and she will destroy you. She is usually sitting on the ground sobbing, leave her alone...don’t go near her and don’t shine a light on her. IF you piss off a witch some one on your team is going down at a minimum. She is fast, deadly, and will thrash you with her long razor hands.
This game is like no other I have ever played, and I strongly suggest this to anyone who has a desire to kill zombies, work as a team, and have fun. I have never had this much fun in a game and it really is a breath of fresh air for this gamer. Hope to see you all in the post apocalypse.
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