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I’ll be honest, though, and say that the emphasis on team building and good teammates also makes the difficulty levels in a constant flux, as it depends wholly on your team. Realism also offers a great challenge, should you have a few good teammates. One level, one challenge, but with all the glory of getting to spit acid on your prey making them not only drop their gas can but exploding it in the process (suckers). Still other situations arise in which I will have the urge to play round-based Infected versus Survivors mode but with not much time on my plate, which makes Scavenge perfect. Some moods will call for getting in a game with a few friends to tackle a new difficulty on a Campaign, other times I feel like doing a hardcore Versus round against another team. These are excellent additions to the game, and always keep gameplay interesting for me. With this sequel, however, you are privy to the new Scavenge and Realism mode. There are the old school Campaigns, Versus, Survival, and obviously Single-Player. It probably comes as no surprise, then, that my primary time spent playing Left 4 Dead 2 is on the online gameplay modes, of which you have a great variation. If you choose not to indulge in Xbox Live for whatever reason, I suggest you don’t bother with tackling hordes of zombies and Special Infected in Left 4 Dead 2. I played the single-player campaign for roughly two purposes: (1) to get a bit familiar with the campaign before plunging in with a team, and, of course, (2) for this review. There’s no way in hell you’re enjoying this game playing with the AI in single-player mode. Left 4 Dead 2, however, provides an opportunity for more strategizing and team building than your typical FPS game through interactions with your teammates.Gameplay itself is, I would say, strictly a multiplayer experience leading to a dependency on good team building. It seems that because of a plethora of these sort of FPS games, the genre is beginning to get a bad rep.

It’s easy to make a game where you run and shoot faces of all sorts in a strictly linear manner.

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There are more traps to avoid – like a lot full of cars just begging you to set them off (yes, jumping on them sets it off, too!) – as well as tasks that need to be completed – like filling a racecar with gas before you can drive away to safety.Ĭonsidering this more advanced form of challenge within each map, I would say that Left 4 Dead 2 is a more advance form of a first-person shooter. In Left 4 Dead 2 there is more strategy involved rather than the almost tried and true technique of sticking together as a team (which some people still don’t seem to follow). We did have a tease and taste of what the campaigns would involve with the Crash Course DLC for the original zombie killing game, but I was still captivated by the changes. The campaigns are also surprisingly unique in comparison to the original Left 4 Dead. As John mentioned, the cricket bat and frying pan have fun effects and all, but they just don’t feel like they do the job as well as a fire axe or machete do. I have almost completely abandoned the pistols in favor of the melee weapons – the katana being my personal favorite of the melees. Now, however, I run to the nearest katana in the hopes that my teammates don’t get it before I do. So, what makes Left 4 Dead 2 so great, especially in comparison to its predecessor? I did say melee weapons above there, right? In Left 4 Dead I was always the one on the prowl for my second pistol, screaming at the instant sight of one to my teammates to make sure they were aware of my very proud and exciting discovery. I had a moment of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” due to my addiction to Left 4 Dead, but by the time I received my full copy of Left 4 Dead 2 I stopped complaining about the new witch’s odd crying noises and the changes in the music, and started to appreciate the melee weapons and new campaigns. Playing the demo for Left 4 Dead 2, I was a bit skeptical. Soon after, a little too soon some might have said, Valve announced Left 4 Dead 2 and I knew my social life had no hope of reemergence after that. I immediately took to the game my social life was doomed from its very release. It was an interesting spin on the FPS zombie-killing genre I have come to know and love.

The idea that I could play as the Infected was one of the most appealing to me in reference to a zombie infested game. I, like John, spent many hours playing the original Left 4 Dead. I hope we’re all caught up on the details now so that I may plunge into my Ode to Left 4 Dead 2.