Killing Zombies - Cool Killing Zombies with friends - Really Cool. 4-6 hours of arcade style gameplay - No
Left 4 Dead, is a Half Life 2 mod that should of been included in the next Valve box set (like Portal). It should not be a stand alone title. It takes about 4 hours to beat the game in total (with a decent crew at your side). The A.I. director is over-rated, and doesn't mix it up enough to make a game that much more re-playable. There are not enough weapons to mix up the gameplay style for players, and the zombies are not really scary enough or unmanagable to make the game that hard.
The game lacks substance and story, and cannot match Dead Rising for the "I need to survive" edge that made the game so great.
I like playing this game because of the hordes of running zombies. However, the four types of super Zombies don't make the game better or more interesting, and for a game with such an arcade flavour it should of included more weapons, including hand to hand weapons to cut, bash, or crush your undead attackers. A character creator would of been great, so you could be whoever you want instead of four horrible characters that don't match myself or my fellow Zombie hunters in any way.
The now aging Source engine needs a rehaul, and the game could use a map creator, so to expand on the game, by the users.
My 7.0 is a generous one, and its gets it because I really like taking out Zombies, and the co-op aspect is the only part that is in any way innovative.