Left 4 Dead
It's time for the Apathy Curve Zombie Update!
The design geniuses over at Valve Software (bless their evil little hearts) are creating a lovely little Romero-esqe zombie shooter for the PC called Left 4 Dead. The interesting twist is that it's a co-op shooter which requires teamwork between four people -- no Rambo/Lone Ranger stuff here. In the tradition of the Romero movies, an unlikely group of people are thrown together and must fight to survive the hordes of ravening zombies out to eat their braaaaiins! (Some folks are more susceptible to zombie attack than others.)
Using the Half-Life 2 engine, the game looks good, if not quite up to the standards of some of the latest releases. Which is not all bad, as it will run on systems that aren't right on the bleeding edge, (unlike, say... Crysis). Gamespot has a hand-ons preview with some screenies.
I know some of you fellow Curvers are zombie fanatics as well, so get your VoIP set-ups ready... we'll need a good team to play this one.
Y'all decide among yourselves who gets to play the girl.
The design geniuses over at Valve Software (bless their evil little hearts) are creating a lovely little Romero-esqe zombie shooter for the PC called Left 4 Dead. The interesting twist is that it's a co-op shooter which requires teamwork between four people -- no Rambo/Lone Ranger stuff here. In the tradition of the Romero movies, an unlikely group of people are thrown together and must fight to survive the hordes of ravening zombies out to eat their braaaaiins! (Some folks are more susceptible to zombie attack than others.)
Using the Half-Life 2 engine, the game looks good, if not quite up to the standards of some of the latest releases. Which is not all bad, as it will run on systems that aren't right on the bleeding edge, (unlike, say... Crysis). Gamespot has a hand-ons preview with some screenies.
I know some of you fellow Curvers are zombie fanatics as well, so get your VoIP set-ups ready... we'll need a good team to play this one.
Y'all decide among yourselves who gets to play the girl.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 12:37
3 Comments:
Heh. Yup, I read an article about this in Geek Magazine. I am so there.
Count me in! Rigel_42@yahoo.com
Valve has proven their zombie worthily-ness with the Half-Life series. If this game is remotely close to that type of quality of “We Don't Go To Ravenholm”....[drool].
-Kenny
Heh. I call Black-Guy-With-Assault-Rifle. Since it's almost always the black guy and the Chick-With-Gun that outlive the rest. Biker-Dude dies just before the climactic battle/escape. Military-Guy...50/50 chance he lives or get seriously wounded and sacrifices himself while black guy and chick escape.
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