By Kieron Gillen on October 12th, 2009 at 4:00 pm.
Not as in “Whatever happened to those Left 4 Dead 2 chaps?” but “Where else will they be offing people?”. As reported by Kotaku reported by EvilAvatar reported by the Steam Forums as reported by a Taiwanese website who stuck up five L4D2 posters. Which seems to have revealed the last two. Or it could be a hoax. Oh, they look credible enough to me. See them below…
The art style is exactly the same as all the others. If they are fakes they are very good ones.
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They’re fake. The text is too bland compared to the others. Also, the phrase is, “Come Hell or High Water.”
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I think that was intentional, even if it was a fake.
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The text is bland compared to the other posters, and the phrase is, “Come Hell or High Water.”
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I think that’s probably intentional.
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“Come Hell and High Water.”
Considering it’s the zombie apocalypse and looking at the flooding in the background I’d think that’s intentional.
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The font for it still looks slightly off.
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Clive Owen is in the next left 4 dead? Woah!
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I miss Bill already. “PILLS HERE.” “THEY’RE ZOMBIES FRANCIS.” *sigh*
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I’m going to miss them too :(
The new (and funny/charming) dialogues in Crash Course only drove home the point about how attached I’ve become to the old survivors.
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Louis destroying Francis (does everyone hate Francis?) at the start of Crash Course…
L: Why don’t you take your moustache, your little vest and your chaps and go and find a parade.
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FRANCIS IS THE MAN! He may hate everything….but he is a badass.
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Meh could be real. We’ll see soon enough I spose.
Anyone else catch that a less gory version has been accepted for classification in Australia?
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re: “Where else will they be offing people?” and Australia -
Zombies aren’t people!
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The full version has been put in for appeal though, i really hope it gets through. If not, shit is going to be shit. Have to get an american mate to gift it to me.
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I may be wrong but I was under the impression gifting wont help you out…
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is that uncle phil?
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Ahahaha :D
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I hate zombies.
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People are however getting very good at pretending to do Valve official artwork. Who knows?
Dead Centre sure does have alot of melee weapons, a melee only first couple of chapters would be very very cool.
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Almost certainly real, I’d say. The text has exactly the same dry half-funny tone of the original and the art style is identical to the first game.
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There’s not a chance in hell these are fake
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It’s most likely that the art is real, the text is not yet final. Wasn’t there a rather tame disaster movie called Hard Rain a few years back? It’s unlikely they’d go with the same name, but you never can tell.
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There was a fun little action flick called Hard Rain with Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater in the late 90′s.
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Ah yes. I remember a scene where an electricity pole came dangerously closed to the flooded land.
They’ll get sewed with a title like that!
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Your misspelling there has me in stitches!
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^ ^ Haha
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Dear god that film sucked arse.
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Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways,
I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And its a hard, and its a hard, its a hard, and its a hard,
And its a hard rains a-gonna fall.
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin,
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin,
I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And its a hard, and its a hard, its a hard, its a hard,
And its a hard rains a-gonna fall.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Air_%28film%29
’nuff said
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Well, yeah. Which is why the different. Besides, zombies AND flooding seems to justify an and.
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I’m voting for real art, placeholder text. Capital letters at the beginning of everything is unprofessional, and there are several mistakes as pointed out before.
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Looks like Christian Slater, Josh Hartnett, and Uncle Phil are in Dead Centre.
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No, christian slater was in Hard Rain. With morgan freeman.
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but, but, Clive Owen is in Hard Rain, and Morgan Freemen has never been that fat. I’m so confused!
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Nah, clive owen was in Privateer 2, you’re getting mixed up!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Hard_rain_ver3.jpg
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What I think is worth pointing out – Rochelle is holding two melee weapons in the Dead Center poster. A hint to dual wielding melee weapons?
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Unlikely. In all of the original L4D posters they had a submachine gun that was not in the actual game, so I don’t think you can take anything from the posters as wrote, basically.
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WIP posters probably.
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They look real enough, they do like their cliches afterall…
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I don’t understand why the girl is wearing two weapons (one of them is even a freakin’ chainsaw!), and the guys are so lame to only wear one right..? How can you even dual wield something together with a chainsaw.. They are heavy! O.o
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Well they are better than the posters for the first game where Zoe looked different in each one.
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Don’t care. Want the game now. WANT.
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Reply only works for me after having attempted and failed once, so here is my fail.
“Don’t care. Want the game now. WANT.”
YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! :D
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so the other level is a shopping mall
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‘Tis basically what I was going to say.
Even though the character and background art looks credible, the text makes me almost certain that it’s a hoax.
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Love the Left 4 Dead character art.
As already said, I imagine the only thing that will change is the actual font. The slash through the title of the first poster will most likely stay if the tagline doesn’t change
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why is coach sliceing his hnd off with a machette in dead centre?
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If they are real….. Shopping Mall = WIN
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never understood why I hear so much whining over characters whom we have yet to really see interacting with each other, while on the topic of L4D2 here is the achievements list.
http://www.l4dmods.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=263:left4dead-2-achievements-revealed
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some really good stuff here are the most stand out ones
• SHOCK JOCK – 30 – Revive 10 dead Survivors with the defibrillator.
• ROBBED ZOMBIE – 15 – Collect 10 vials of Boomer vomit from infected CEDA agents you have killed.
• CL0WND – 15 – Honk the noses of 10 Clowns.
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Wow, are those achievements real?
Some really interesting stuff in there:
The Real Deal – Survive a campaign on Expert skill with Realism mode enabled.
Shock Jock – Revive 10 dead Survivors with the Defibrillator.
There are also some strange looking ones like Stache Whacker – Prove you are faster than Moustachio
It would also indicate that those campaign names are correct.
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The names of those achievements certainly have the ring of Valve comedy to them…
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The only really great poster from the original, IMO, was the one for Last Stand. I was actually going to buy a copy of that one before the L4D2 announcement hit.
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oh, good idea! there was a company that does that over the internet with any pics you send them isnt there? might ask/give for one for christmas
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Valve sells copies of them themselves, actually, but they’re fairly pricey. It’d probably be cheaper to do what you’re suggesting.
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What is behind you?
A 3 EYES ZOMBIE SPIDER MONKEY!
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They’re obviously real.. the achievements have already been leaked and the campaigns reflect all of the posters shown including these two.
You slow RPS, you slow.
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The ‘Gnome Chompski’ achievement has me in stitches. Valve definitely have a way with humour.
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its funny how all you need to do is put “rumor” in the headline, in order to turn seemingly reasonable people into to frothing skeptics. obviously this art is legit.
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Want this now. I’d definitely say they’re real.
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Best part is……. IT IS! Lord be praised!
http://kotaku.com/5379863/left-4-dead-2-achievements-reveal-new-items-confirm-campaigns
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I always thought Nick looked like John Cusack in the original L4D2 artworks.
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Recently just found out that Overnight Prints just added posters to their list of products offered at competitive prices. Check them out!
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