Left 4 Dead

Valve the designers of some of the biggest and best games in the world (Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, CSS, TF2) have returned bringing us their new multiplayer experience Left 4 Dead.

This game pulls you straight into the action, fighting a number of weird and wonderful zombies including Boomers, Tanks, Hunters, Smokers, Witches and of course the zombie. Like all Valve games there are limited or no cut scenes meaning the game play is nonstop, once you step out of your very small safe house you are thrust into a world filled with zombies. The actual destroying of the various zombies is quite entertaining, shooting them in the head with a shotgun will cause their head to explode covering part of the screen with blood for a short amount of time. There are 4 characters to choose from Louis, Francis, Zoey, Bill who are all equal in strength, agility, etc the only difference between the characters are their looks, Zoey been the only female in the game apart from the zombies.
The main game has two game types been campaign, which really is co-op, and verses. The campaign basically explains its self, just like any other games campaign, but unlike most games verses this game mode allows 8 people to replay the campaign but instead of killing the zombies you now have a chance to kill the last surviving humans. This game mode is quite ingenious and fun.
The screen has a very valve familiar layout, your stats at the bottom right of the screen including your health and any items you are carrying. The difference is that instead of just showing your stats you can see your entire teams stats, showing how much health each team mate has what items they have, etc. The Keyboard layout is very familiar with most FPS games, nothing new here.
The AI (enemy’s) in the game depending on the difficulty differ between quite smart to idiotic, if you set the difficulty on easy you can easily walk on by as the zombies simply spew and moan at you, but if the difficulty is raised then they can be quite un zombie like they basically know where you are at any given moment in the game. Your friendly AI are, for AI, quite intelligent and helpful of course a real human is much more assistance they can still be very useful and handy.
They graphics are very good, although they cannot compare to that of Crysis or Far Cry 2, they still are a great improvement from the old HL2 engine. Although the graphics are not nearly some of the more important things to a game it is always nice to see pretty pictures and models.
This game is a very involved game, like all games made by valve this is a must get.
8/10

by Dr_Ownage

This game is just awesome… once you get past the never ending car ride at the beginning of the game. This game is in the league of crysis and by that i mean like crysis Far Cry 2 has the most unreal (realistic) physics there is. this game is so advanced that even the fire you light will spread in the direction of the wind. so when you light the fire right you can cause it to take out entire camps while waiting with your sniper from a distance. This games best feature is probably one you wont notice, because it is the lack of the loading screens that makes this game so good. This FPS is a free roam like GTA but the map is much larger… and there is not one of them but multiple maps. each exceeding the last in size, each with new places to explore. This game is huge and is best played with a good computer. I give this game a 10/10 for game play 9.5/10 for the physics 6/10 for story

Dr_Ownage

Apart from what a lot of RPG lovers say this game is a great game. The fact that finally an RPG (normally a game filled with nothing but chance) gives you the ability to play either First Person or 3rd Person is awesome. This finally takes away the thing that I hate most about RPG’s (”HOW DO I SHOOT THIS GUY IN THE FUCKING HEAD”…”Oh you cant do that you have to hope that your luck is high enough to actually hit HIM”) like really why do people play games? they play them for fun… to prove their skill. Most RPG’s not allowing you to prove any skill that you might have in my opinion fail, but this is where Fallout 3 is good. it allows you to finally shoot the guy in the head, no role of the dice… do i hit him or not. One of the most fun elements of this game is what a lot of people are not happy about, the fact that you can just explore the whole map and own everyone on it, although the actual traveling is very slow you can find your self easily side tracked and wiping out entire raider camps for fun. After finishing the game i was most disappointed with the ending not allowing you to just free roam and complete all the little side quests that this game offers, but allowing you to find one of your very own ending, by that mean depending on how you play the game (good or bad) you might get one of the 200 endings yes thats right 200 endings they managed to ram in. I give this game a 10/10 for game play 7.5/10 for story… still worth getting.

Dr_Ownage