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…
12/10/2009 at 16:03 Duffin says:
The art style is exactly the same as all the others. If they are fakes they are very good ones.
12/10/2009 at 16:23 Dan says:
They’re fake. The text is too bland compared to the others. Also, the phrase is, “Come Hell or High Water.”
13/10/2009 at 04:07 Jayt says:
I think that was intentional, even if it was a fake.
12/10/2009 at 16:26 Dan says:
The text is bland compared to the other posters, and the phrase is, “Come Hell or High Water.”
12/10/2009 at 16:40 The_B says:
I think that’s probably intentional.
12/10/2009 at 16:40 El_MUERkO says:
“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.
12/10/2009 at 23:01 Mike says:
The font for it still looks slightly off.
12/10/2009 at 16:26 Jules says:
Clive Owen is in the next left 4 dead? Woah!
12/10/2009 at 16:26 Snuffles says:
I miss Bill already. “PILLS HERE.” “THEY’RE ZOMBIES FRANCIS.” *sigh*
12/10/2009 at 18:16 abhishek says:
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.
12/10/2009 at 23:36 Funky Badger says:
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.
13/10/2009 at 08:19 bildo says:
FRANCIS IS THE MAN! He may hate everything….but he is a badass.
12/10/2009 at 16:26 The Fanciest of Pants says:
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?
12/10/2009 at 17:51 Geoff says:
re: “Where else will they be offing people?” and Australia -
Zombies aren’t people!
12/10/2009 at 21:30 Aftershock says:
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.
12/10/2009 at 21:45 billyboob says:
I may be wrong but I was under the impression gifting wont help you out…
12/10/2009 at 16:29 leederkrenon says:
is that uncle phil?
12/10/2009 at 17:10 futage says:
Ahahaha :D
12/10/2009 at 16:32 theleif says:
I hate zombies.
12/10/2009 at 16:32 Pamplemousse says:
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.
12/10/2009 at 16:33 Vinraith says:
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.
12/10/2009 at 16:36 James Benson says:
There’s not a chance in hell these are fake
12/10/2009 at 16:36 Bobsy says:
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.
12/10/2009 at 18:34 Nick says:
There was a fun little action flick called Hard Rain with Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater in the late 90′s.
12/10/2009 at 18:44 Carra says:
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!
12/10/2009 at 20:09 VelvetFistIronGlove says:
Your misspelling there has me in stitches!
12/10/2009 at 21:00 WimpoD says:
^ ^ Haha
12/10/2009 at 21:52 Jacques says:
Dear god that film sucked arse.
13/10/2009 at 05:30 TeeJay says:
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.
13/10/2009 at 14:14 Arca says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Air_%28film%29
’nuff said
12/10/2009 at 16:38 Bret says:
Well, yeah. Which is why the different. Besides, zombies AND flooding seems to justify an and.
12/10/2009 at 16:41 Alexander Norris says:
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.
12/10/2009 at 16:41 JonFitt says:
Looks like Christian Slater, Josh Hartnett, and Uncle Phil are in Dead Centre.
12/10/2009 at 17:06 bill says:
No, christian slater was in Hard Rain. With morgan freeman.
12/10/2009 at 17:38 JonFitt says:
but, but, Clive Owen is in Hard Rain, and Morgan Freemen has never been that fat. I’m so confused!
13/10/2009 at 04:36 bill says:
Nah, clive owen was in Privateer 2, you’re getting mixed up!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Hard_rain_ver3.jpg
12/10/2009 at 16:43 The_B says:
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?
12/10/2009 at 16:56 The Poisoned Sponge says:
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.
12/10/2009 at 16:50 Gutter says:
WIP posters probably.
12/10/2009 at 17:28 Heliosicle says:
They look real enough, they do like their cliches afterall…
12/10/2009 at 17:55 Aramoth says:
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
12/10/2009 at 18:28 Justin Keverne says:
Well they are better than the posters for the first game where Zoe looked different in each one.
12/10/2009 at 18:43 army of none says:
Don’t care. Want the game now. WANT.
12/10/2009 at 19:03 Joseph says:
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
12/10/2009 at 19:23 jamie says:
so the other level is a shopping mall
12/10/2009 at 20:36 Dyscharge says:
‘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.
12/10/2009 at 20:49 Bantros says:
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
12/10/2009 at 20:52 CreativeShadows says:
why is coach sliceing his hnd off with a machette in dead centre?
12/10/2009 at 21:05 SH4RKY says:
If they are real….. Shopping Mall = WIN
12/10/2009 at 21:08 Dance Comm says:
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
12/10/2009 at 21:14 Dance Comm says:
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.
12/10/2009 at 21:17 Vandelay says:
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.
12/10/2009 at 21:34 MacBeth says:
The names of those achievements certainly have the ring of Valve comedy to them…
12/10/2009 at 21:36 Vinraith says:
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.
12/10/2009 at 21:50 autogunner says:
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
12/10/2009 at 21:53 Vinraith says:
Valve sells copies of them themselves, actually, but they’re fairly pricey. It’d probably be cheaper to do what you’re suggesting.
12/10/2009 at 21:55 Tei says:
What is behind you?
A 3 EYES ZOMBIE SPIDER MONKEY!
12/10/2009 at 22:11 Anonymous says:
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.
12/10/2009 at 22:25 Denton says:
The ‘Gnome Chompski’ achievement has me in stitches. Valve definitely have a way with humour.
12/10/2009 at 22:56 reginald says:
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.
13/10/2009 at 00:12 Rei Onryou says:
Want this now. I’d definitely say they’re real.
13/10/2009 at 07:30 lilgamefreek says:
Best part is……. IT IS! Lord be praised!
http://kotaku.com/5379863/left-4-dead-2-achievements-reveal-new-items-confirm-campaigns
13/10/2009 at 22:51 Inconsistency says:
I always thought Nick looked like John Cusack in the original L4D2 artworks.
15/10/2009 at 23:59 Mac says:
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