Brand new Left 4 Dead in-game footage? Blimey. I only just noticed these two clips because I was off talking to people at Nordic Game for most of the week, and it was a fun time. I’ll probably talk more about that over the weekend, because lots of stuff happened. Anyway, after the jump are those two new trailers, which show lots of speedy-looking in-game footage. Perhaps even sped up a little? I can’t tell, my brain is in perceptual neutral.
The “meatgrinder” trailer shows plenty of zombie-death, and some of that vital saving-your-friends stuff. Not sure about that music though – sounds like mid-90s scrolling-shooter title screen track to me.
A good glimpse of the teamplay in this, er, teamplay trailer. You get to see how you can be dragged to your feet and saved by chums during the fight. Nail-biting stuff, or it would be if you weren’t so busy rekilling the undead.
If I can ever get any spare time to work it up I’m going to try and post a detailed preview of Left 4 Dead. I’ve played it a couple of times now and I think the big write-up might be overdue…
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pretty much every game journo who has briefly played a preview version with someone sitting next to them telling them all the awesome stuff they plan to add in later says its brilliant.
Fixed.
Never, ever put your faith in previews, no matter who does them. They almost always read like the original ‘blue skies’ thinking game design doc (you know, before they axed half the content because it didn’t work or they didn’t have time to make it work).
To be honest, it’s playing as the Infected which intrigues me most. The gunplay will be fun and co-op games always have potential to be some of the best experiences, but playing as the infected (especially the fancy-shmancy ones) is what I’m interested to see but they’ll undoubtedly leave until much nearer release.
*Comment Ninja-ing a dead topic*
Apparently, Haze has been almost universally negatively received, with a 54% on Metacritic. Poor Haze. But… Zombie Cha Cha is starting to look a bit more appealing in comparison, Benny Hill and all.