Ooh, I’ve got zombie fever. Just watched the penultimate episode of Dead Set, packing to head off to Valve to play Left 4 Dead, and of course that my parents are half zombie. So get yourself in a similar mood with the opening movie of Left 4 Dead, released into the wild today.
What a bloody brilliant intro video. And while it’s obviously seen in first person, without the super-sleek direction, this really is how the game plays. That crying… Oh God, that crying. It’s so damned sinister.
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er wow. it’s a pity most of the comments are complaining about the embedding method. just watch it on steam in HD and be stunned, it left me completely speechless.
Meh. Well yes, it was awesome, but then do you expect anything less from Valve?
God damn it looks terrifying. I’m so glad I won’t be alone.
Pre-ordered :)
Always been a fan of Zombie movies. Great fun to see people locked up together with a sea of zombies around them.
Hard to believe noone else got this idea before!
I dunno, if I ran a website that depended on ad revenue to keep the expenses down, I might prefer a viewer that didn’t work with Adblock+ either. That way, every time someone screams “it doesn’t work”, everyone suspects that person of being a freeloader.
(Disclaimer: Yes, I use adblock too, but only to nuke the adverts/sites that don’t play by the rules).
Anyway, the video in all its HD glory is now available on steam.
Eventually the video won’t be one i can find elsewhere.
Then the broken movies will make me sad.
He done a poo in the room and it stank!
Thanks for the Dead Set recommendation and link, John. The characters and gore proved a hell of a lot more unsanitised than I thought they were going to be (unlikeable, flawed humans and, holy shit, fire extinguisher scene) and it neatly paralleled Dawn of the Dead’s jabs at consumerism, just aimed squarely at those who enjoy the lowest forms of television instead.
Additionally: Davina McCall in convincing acting shocker!
I haven’t seen Dead Set but isn’t Davina more or less playing herself?
That intro is very tasty to watch. I’m just curious if a zombie apocalypse turns you into a complete badarse or if you have to be a badarse to begin with, because clearly all four of those survivors are badarse.
I admit to using a scriptblocker, primarily against these pesky dataminers like google analytics.
Got the intro on Steam media files. It’s awesome. Cannot wait for 6th of november.
Oh, and bring something back John, just not the zombie infection okay? ;)
This trailer makes me glad I just bought a new rig for playing L4D (which I pre-ordered on a whim – a very good one at least). For a Brazilian dude, it’s a sucky situation to have to upgrade your machine, seeing how everything is so craptacularly expensive here.
Still, me is happy. It’s gonna be a fun end of year for me.
I just hope the Valve dudes treat L4D as well as they’ve been treating TF2, with constant and meaningful updates.
“Looks great though. I take it the crying thing is the infamous witch? What’s so special about her, aside from general unpleasantness? Or is it a surprise?”
IIRC: Fast as hell, can take as much or more punishment than the tank… and can flatten a player with one hit. Original news said she only showed up on medium or higher difficulty, but according to Left4Dead411, that’s changed.
Also, I’ll add that I’m adblocking no one, and I had to go to Oxi’s link to see the video. The error is actually from within the embedded player, so I think that the brutal, sweeping assumption that we’re all lecherous little goons who are trying to sap RPS of its lifeblood is a bit hasty.
does this game need high graphic card requirement?
@Metronome nope the system specs are very reasonable. If you can play HL2: EP2 and TF2 your guaranteed to be able to play this game. The precise system specs can be found here.
@A-Scale: I’m no authority on the subject but from what I understand it is because it is intended for “Mature” audiences a.k.a. 18 years and older (I guess 21 or even older for some countries) and they have to take some measures for legal reasons. So the principle is that they don’t care if you lie or not, but that way, nobody can say that they allowed a 8 years old to watch that stuff without taking any kind of predisposition to prevent him from doing it. If he lies about his age, nobody (like his mom for instance) can file a complaint against them or whatever.
I don’t put my real date of birth even if I’m more than three decades old, I just take the first year that my cursor falls on that “makes me” more than 18 years old so that I can watch the damn video.
In short: it’s just legal protection.
Now, the video is really frigging awesome and as many suggested it, I’m going to download the HD Steam version to compare.
“I haven’t seen Dead Set but isn’t Davina more or less playing herself?”
Sort of.
(Couldn’t resist. Dead Set was awesome.)
Anyway, as the the intro, it’s so, so epic. <3 Valve.
So far, I’ve watched the intro at least 3 times a day since its release. Pre-ordered the game on Steam (even if it is cheaper off the net, I’d rather guarantee that I’ll be able to play on release day) and literally cannot wait.
Everything in that intro is just so perfect and spot on. I showed my dad it and for someone who hadn’t heard about L4D before, his response was of definite interest and he said “That looks really good. Like it could be made into a full movie” and that’s the point of it. A taster of the game’s movies. ^.^
For anyone else that played it at showdown; does the roof at the end of the video look a bit like the roof you start on in the level we got to play?
Would be interesting if all the levels were linked together through these ‘meet the team’ style of video release we’ve been promised with patches.
The video leads up to the start of the No Mercy campaign. All the campaigns are meant to be linked together, so maybe each has a short introduction like you say.
Oh, and for my fellow non-UKers who can’t access Dead Set online via the Channel Four website, a little bird told me that some guy upped them to youtube. I think it’s… dodgydave1989. I’m sure it’s around elsewhere in better quality, too.
It certainly is the roof at the start of No Mercy, I recognised it straight away – except for the tarp, which I don’t recall being there. I’d be fairly sure there will be similar videos for each section transition – and I’d strongly suspect they are the main reason the game wasn’t released weeks ago when all the previews were saying ‘This game seems practically ready to release’. That level of polish must take up serious resources.
I couldn’t get the video to work, neither here nor directly on their site. Thanks for the youtube link, or I would have missed a great video.
The video didn’t work for me either, but when I went to the gamespot site and watched the video there (via the link from Teo), but when I went back to RPS it worked there…
Perhaps you are missing some validation utils from gamespot??
Forgot to explain further:
The age validation didn’t work on your site, but worked on Gamespot and when I went back to your site (and the Gamespot video player remembered that I’m old enough :) ) then the video worked
@Zed: I thank you.
Did Valve ever release a location for L4D? I noticed during the hunter section of the intro a set of Pennsylvania tags on the car (I think). This state of America would make sense because it offers a large city with international airport, farmland within stone’s throw, and rabid Philly fans. Little known fact: The “infected” were chasing the survivors for a signed Shane Victorino bobble head.
They mentioned a while back that the ‘No Mercy’ campaign was set in Philadelphia, with another set in Pittsburgh, as a nod towards the Romero movies, which were set in the same area.
Tried to watch it on two computers, get ‘undefined.’ Thanks for the other links though, guys :)
Lobster: Thanks for the info. Good stuff.