I’ve a sneaking suspicion that these won’t stay up on GameTrailers, so take a look while they’re hot. Past the jump there’s a whole bunch of shakeycam videos of Left 4 Dead being played, and they show off some of the best stuff in the game. Left 4 Dead, in case you weren’t paying attention, is the 4-player co-op zombie shooter multiplayer type thing from Valve. I’ve played it, it’s entirely awesome, and it’s scheduled for release on November 4th.
This one shows someone being tongued to death by one of the boss infected, The Smoker. See how the co-op humans all yell to each other contextually – “Reloading!” – that’s automagic, and doesn’t require you to do anything.
This next video shows the player being vomited on by a boomer – another boss infected – something which brings the rabid zombies a-screamin’ and a-rendin’.
The third clip has some intense firefights going on, and a couple of boss infected attacks. Watch out for the smoker hanging one of the players by the neck right at the start. Players can be boss infected, but the AI performs the same kind of ambush tricks.
Like Max Payne, the Left 4 Deadites do like those tasty pills. (To ease the pain.)
Of course this all old news to me. Yeah…
(Excited!)
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This looks FUCKING ACE.
Tak…”Day of the Dead”? I preferred the original Dawn of the Dead, that poor guy…
@Chaz, I wouldn’t necessarily consider that this game would get stale so quickly, especially if the scenarios are different enough from each other to have a significantly different experience and that apparantly no two play throughs would be the same thanks to the “Director” A.I.
Zombies rushing at you may not be so interesting after a while, but the interest comes from where and how those zombies are rushing at you, in the same way that CS is engaging not because someone is trying to shoot you in the head but that they did something unexpected to better shoot you in the head. If Left 4 Dead can keep on giving out surprises each play through then I think it can remain engaging for more than a couple of weeks, especially if Valve keep on supporting it like they’ve done with TF2. Imagine future updates with different maps, survivors, weapons, bosses…well, let’s not get too optimistic, I accept that you could be right, also I’d look forward to some sweet mods regardless.
I literally will be playing the fuck out of this game, no doubt.