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Left For Dead
robjus
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I loaded Orange Box in my 360 when I got home from work. I let it run for a few while I logged on to check my emails. It will play a preview of all the games if you leave it for a while, and then it goes back to the main menu screen, but leave it even longer and it plays a trailer for a new game called Left For Dead. I haven't really heard anything about the game but it looked awesome and I thought everyone should check it out.
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Your OP could use some work. I suggest adding some information about the game.
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Don't be sorry, there's a lot of cause behind making a thread about this game. I was just preemptively diffusing the possible comments that might arise in response to your post.
I'll probably get it, though, since I'm a sucker for zombie games. We really need some better multiplayer ones. When you think about it, there aren't a lot. I want big open maps with literally hundreds to a thousand zombies. I want few and scattered weapons and ammo and the use of physics to create blockades or so forth.
The spawns are dynamic so they won't ever be the same. You also have the human element, players playing as the infected will make them much more interesting. I get off on co-op games though. I've played through Gears at least twice with random strangers and done a couple chapters several times.
There's bots, but there isn't a story beyond "Rabies mutated and made a bunch of zombies and now we need to get to from Point A to Point Q to catch a helicoptor or train or something to escape"
Which, for zombie stuff, is pretty standard fare.. and that's a-okay with me!
Left 4 Dead is going to be awwwwwwesome!
I don't think I've seen this question answered yet though - can someone play single player with AI controlling your 3 survivor friends?
I'm actually kinda nervous about the game too. Because if you end up dying, you've basically screwed over your entire team.
I saw that but I guess I'm still kinda tired because I was thinking that they meant the zombies only.. but that wouldn't make as much sense.
Thanks.
Left 4 Dead is an upcoming multiplayer co-operative survival horror game by Turtle Rock Studios and Valve Corporation (a collaboration that has previously produced Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, as well as maps and the official bot for Valve's Counter-Strike: Source). The expected release date for Left 4 Dead is early 2008.
Setting and levels
Gameplay takes place in urban cities, small hamlets, wooded rural settings, shopping malls and other such locations. Four players take control of the four main characters of the game, "The Survivors", who subsequently play through the levels fighting off the Infected, which are humans who have been infected with a mutated form of rabies. Each level has the players fighting towards a goal, such as escaping by helicopter. (The helicopter has to be called in by radio. During the final wait for rescue, players must face a final onslaught of the infected.)
There will be four scenarios with around five maps each in the first release of Left 4 Dead. Each scenario lasts an average of 45 to 75 minutes.
Damage, dying and checkpoints
Checkpoints also provide a respawn point for downed Survivors. As long as one Survivor manages to reach a checkpoint, the others will appear again on the map in closets or in other "trapped" situations, and will rejoin their allies when found. Survivors don't die instantly from too much damage — they are first knocked down, but can continue to fire with their pistols until helped by another Survivor. Movement speed is affected by injuries, slowing damaged Survivors down until they are helped by health kits or pain medications. Left 4 Dead will have full friendly fire that can't be switched off. This keeps the challenge of the game up.
The AI in Left 4 Dead allows the game to be played by fewer than four players, by making the other survivors bots, these bots will follow one of the player-controlled survivors. The Infected bosses will also be played by the AI, if there is less than four players on the infected team. The AI in Left 4 Dead is allegedly so convincing that survivors won't be able to distinguish between bots and real players in the role of the infected.
The different types of infected are:
The Boomer
A hugely obese Infected that can projectile vomit at The Survivors, blinding them and attracting swarms of nearby Infected to them. When Boomers die they blow up, creating a large amount of damage and exorbitant amounts of gore and viscera.
The Hunter
An agile Infected who can climb walls and jump over rooftops, similar to Half-Life 2's Fast Zombie. If the Hunter stands motionless against a wall it will turn invisible. It can then pounce on a survivor, pinning them down on the floor and slashing at them with its claws, rendering the victim powerless unless The Hunter is killed by a team-mate or knocked off its victim. It is extremely weak, and can only sustain minor gunfire before dying. The Hunter can also retreat, and slowly heal itself.
The Smoker
A zombie with a long, whip-like tongue that can drag Survivors away from their team-mates and use its tongue as an organic noose to strangle Survivors when it is perched on a rooftop. Similar to Half-Life's Barnacle, or Resident Evil's Licker. When in danger, it can leave a haze of black smoke, distorting the Survivors' vision.
The Tank
A huge, muscular zombie capable of throwing large items such as cars or blocks of concrete. Its slow movement is countered by high strength and toughness. To prevent the tank from camping away from the survivors for too long a frustration timer is set when the survivors are not in sight. When the timer runs out the tank becomes uncontrollable and begins stomping and thrashing giving away its position and becoming vulnerable to the survivors.
The Witch
The only mutant infected that will not be available to players. They are passive upon discovery by the players, but react with hostility to flashlight beams, physical contact, and gunfire in the vicinity. It will be able to kill a player in one hit, and has almost as much health as a Tank, making them the most dangerous of the infected. She has the resemblance of average infected, but can be heard crying to give the players a chance to avoid or attack her.
I am very much looking forward to this game!
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Not always. The terms "bait" and "meat shield" come to mind.
EDIT: Grinch, the second image is a bandwidth theft complaint.
Damn it! How fast ARE you people? I edited it out the second after I spotted it
I can't really find any other good pics at the mo being in work
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One... one where you don't use a shotgun to kill zombies?
Edit: Ooooh, yeah hey. I like my CoD 4 and the killing people online component but yeesh, having a game with some actual decent co-op will be nice.
Though, I'll bet it doesn't offer split-screen if it gets on the 360... and one of my roommates PCs is too crap to play Source games.
First of all, it's not "another" online FPS. It's a co-op game vs lots of AI controlled enemies (and a few human controlled enemies if you want.) How many games these days even COME with co-op, let alone are designed around them?
Secondly, you can play it with bots if you're really that anti-social.
Not even touching the "4" complaint.
The 4 is pretty annoying. But man... I love the concept.
One not online and not a FPS.
So Dead Rising?
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Dead Rising is rumored to be coming out for the PC. You might like that.
No, it very much is "another" online FPS. I have plenty of offline co-op FPSs and other genres of co-op games.
I don't have a PC and I already have Dead Rising. And I love it. Killing zombies in my underwear with chainsaws? Heck yeah.
... Really? Name some.
Edit: Also seriously a 360? Co-op? please tell me what they are jeez. There have been a large number of games where it's been like "Co-Op!" and then it's "... on X-Box Live hahahaha fuck your friends."
The Timsplitters series and that one with the vampire cowboy I forget the name. Those are the several I still have and I don't even like FPSs that much. I've traded a lot of them in. As for other genres, that's a little more then I'm willing to list.
Try Zombie Master, a HL2 mod. It's almost what you're asking for.
Also, the idea of an online FPS where I don't have people shouting at me for sucking and or die instantly is very attractive. I used to play CS alot, but I stopped playing for a couple of years because I was out of the country and then games were blocked at uni, whever I try to play it now I suck.
They had one of those on the PC a long time ago. Dead something; you were on an island and had 1 to 6 characters you controlled and since you could only control one directly the others had this rudimentary AI RTS thing going on. It was really terrible tho.
Not even sure why I'm arguing about this anymore. Carry on.
Neither do I. Why does it matter to you that I don't like online FPSs?
No, no, not 360. They'd never do offline co-op. The only co-op I have for that shooter wise is Earth Defense Force 2017 and that'd take quite a showhorn to fit it into the FPS category.
Because you were kind of annoyingly dismissive about the game, describing it as something common when, IMO, it's actually something new and fresh. Doesn't really matter though.