L4D
14 Nov 2008 Leave a Comment
in Review Tags: left 4 dead, zombies
After grabbing the demo off of Steam, I decided to give the Left 4 Dead demo a try.
I had fun running around and killing zombies in first person. I don’t understand where all the talk about innovation comes from. Yes the game is immensely fun when you have friends to play with, but there is nothing new about it. One could argue that nothing can really be “new” anymore, and everything is just rehashed. But there is still the aspect of taking old ideas and putting a new spin on them. Doing something creative. While this is nothing more than a multiplayer Zombie FPS. I played a similar game 8 years ago in arcades, it was called House of the Dead. Am I’m saying Left 4 Dead is a bad game? Not at all, I was having alot of fun with it. As usual, I was very impressed by the graphics, and how the A.I. tailored itself to your experience. I couldn’t imagine trying to program more then a random script generator. I have nothing but respect for Valve, all I’m trying to say is I head too much talk about it being a revolution in gaming, and it’s not.
Also I really can’t recommend it to someone who is playing alone. It loses all it’s fun when you’re not playing with at least one more person. With that said happy gaming! I’ll be getting my complete version off Steam’s store: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1134/ what about you?
