This really is a great game.
User Rating: 9 | Left 4 Dead X360
I don't know exactly where to start. The game itself is just a lot of fun to play. The downsides are length, and the multi-player. It is WAAAYYYY short. When I say short I mean that you and 3 other friends can go online and literally roll through this in around 4 hours from front to back. There are 4 campaigns that consist of 5 chapters. Each campaign takes anywhere from 45-75 minutes to complete. The saving grace with this short of a game is the fact that everything changes from the last time you played. In other words you're not going to say "OK...here's the part where the Boomer comes..." etc. The online multi is rediculous. Basically, if your the survivors you're going to win. If you're the "infected" then good luck getting a kill. The gameplay is addicitve and rewarding. The environments are realistic and immersive. The audio is haunting as well as well written and rest assured it will raise your pulse. One of the best features about this game is just how realistic the damage to zombies can be. Example...you're carrying an AR-15 and you spray a horde, no two zombies will fall the same way. You may clip an ankle and that zombie will limp on that leg until they either A)get close enough to attck or B)get shot until they are dead...again. Limbs fly off and blood and vomit cover your screen. What more could you ask for? I will say this about the game that kinda ticked me off and there's nothing (that I know of) that you can do about it. One of the achievements for L4D on the 360 is where you go the entire campaign using only pistols and another for not using any health replenishers. One of the features of the game is when you stop playing your character for even a brief period of time AI will step in and take control of your character for you. No way to pause in this game because, well, that would be rude right?! Whatever. If they're your friends they'll wait 2 minutes while you take a leak or answer a phone or whatever. Well guess what your character was doing for you while you were gone? You guessed it. The first thing that they did was grab a beefier gun and use health ruining your chances at getting the achievement(s). Also along these lines, if it's you and 2 friends and you have only 1 AI in the room he/she will try to heal you when you are trying to get that achievement. You can run but they chase after you insisting that you let them heal you. A real pain in the...I'll keep it clean. So these factors can make this game frustrating but over all it's not enought for me to dislike this game in the least. I gave it a solid 9. Definitely worth buying and playing over...and over...and over again. 
