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Unofficial Left 4 Dead Thread.

Jodan77 · 2008-09-08 04:02:11

LEFT 4 DEAD THREADVALVEHORROR FIRST-PERSON SHOOTERPC/360 1-4 Player Cooperative/1-8 Player VersusWatch the Awesome Game Intro Right Now The Unofficial Gamespot Left 4 Dead Steam Group Join the unofficial gamespot Left 4 Dead steam community group, where you'll be able to find other Gamespot users to coordinate with, shoot the breeze, or try to crash the game via in game console commands! The Choice is yours. REVIEWS Gamespot Review TBDG4TV: 5/51up: A-Giant Bomb: 4/5Game Infromer: 9.25 Gamespy Review: 4.5 Out of 5 IGN Review: 9 Edge Magazine: 9Team Xbox: 9.1OXM: 9.5NG4: 9.7Maximum PC: 10 The Official System Requirements OS: Windows Vista, XP or 2000CPU: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 or AMD64X2 (or higher)RAM: 1 GB for XP / 2GB for VistaDISC DRIVE: DVD-ROM DriveHARD DRIVE: At least 7.5 GB of free spaceVIDEO: Direct X 9 compatible video card (Video card must be 256 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for pixel shader 2.0)SOUND: Direct X9.0c compatible sound card Left 4 Dead is a first-person shooter being made by Valve (Developers of Half-Life). It pits four humans (referred to as survivors) against hordes of zombies (referred to as infected); The Infected are similar to the zombies seen in the film 28 Days Later. Left 4 Dead was a suprising hit at E3 08' and walked away with Gamespot's Editors' Best Shooter and Best PC Game awards. Structure of the GameLeft 4 Dead at it's core is get from Point A to Point B alive. In your way lies the infected and the bosses (More on them Later). The Game is being designed with replayability in mind. Every time you play the game will be a unique experience as zombies never appear in the same place twice (See AI Director). The game is comprised of 4 scenarios (referred to as movies), consisting of 5 maps, making for a grand total of 20 maps. The maps are linked together by safe rooms. Once all living survivors are inside the safe room, the next map in the scenario is loaded. While loading, the game will display stats showing the MVP in certain areas. For example, the player with the least amount of friendly fire damage or who killed the most infected. However, bad stats will also be displayed, like who inflicted the most friendly fire damage, or exploded the Boomer near teammates. Once the next map loads, any dead players from the last round will respawn and everyone will get a chance to restock on ammo and health.The Last Map in each scenario is the finale. Instead of reaching a safe room, you usually hold down an area until some form of help arrives (in the case of the hospital scenario, a helicopter is coming to your rescue on top of the roof). If you survive long enough to make it on the chopper, you have completed the scenario. Keeping in mind the movie theme that Left 4 Dead has going, the 'credits' will then roll, which happen to be the overall stats for the entire movie. Lastly there will be moments in the game where zombies are spawned by triggers. For example, in one of the hospital maps, you press the call button for the elevator, which triggers an infected attack. These moments are referred to as Crescendo Events. One can take advantage of these events, since you control when the infected will appear, and can prepare yourself for the attack. Sometimes there will be gasoline containers you can place and shoot to create fire walls, or a near by mounted gun that a player may use. Game ModesSingle PlayerWhile Left 4 Dead is designed with multiplayer in mind; you can traverse the entire campaign by yourself with bots controlling your teammates. The Bots have been stated to be quite capable, but nothing beats playing with a buddy. Campaign/CoopWhile Playing Online with Friends in the Coop mode, the boss infected will be controlled by the AI. In this mode, dead survivors may spawn in locked rooms, and wait for their teammates to let them out. VersusVersus mode lets four more players enter the game as the Boss Infected players. This mode is designed to challenge even the most roughened survivors. The Boss Infected spawn much quicker than in the Campaign Mode (around 20-30 seconds). Survivors in this mode can only respawn in safe rooms, so when you die, you're out until the next map. The goal for the survivors remains the same, get to the safe room. The Boss Infected have to do their best to stop the humans from reaching their goal. The two teams play a map until all the survivors die or reach the safe room. Then they flip sides, and play the same map. Once the new survivor team finishes, the score for both teams is displayed based on various factors and the game loads up the next map in the scenario. Once the End of the scenario is reached, the final score is displayed, and the winning team is announced. THE AI DIRECTORThe driving force in Left 4 Dead is referred to as the AI Director. The Director's influence is felt everywhere. Primarily it controls where and how many zombies spawn. It will react to how players are progressing through a map. So for example, a team of coordinated players will result in the Director throwing larger hordes at you more frequently. If the team is doing bad (Shooting each other, or constantly getting hurt), then the game will throw hordes at you comprised of less enemies. This does not mean Left 4 Dead is an easy game, if players expect to beat a map, they must work as a team, once things start to go bad, it's hard to recover.The Director will also reward coordinated players with Dramatic Payoffs. For example, a scene was shown at E3 08' at a gas station. The Team who was doing bad had a battle with few infected, and moved on. However the next clip was shown of a team ...

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