Left 4 Dead

With my current lack of…oh whats the word? MONEY. I haven’t been able to preorder or purchase Left for dead on the PC. £10 is all i have. As well as my PC being out of a Graphics card (Cooked it) I am reduced to the Intel based on board graphics processor, which in all fairness does what it is meant to do I shall not knock it!

But with the technological wonder that is the Xbox 360 and the Microsoft Market Place I have been able to download the acclaimed Left 4 dead(mo) Get it? Left 4 deadmo? Demo? Dead? aah you suck!

At a whopping 1.2 gig for a game demo I was very pleased with what I has been waiting 2 hours for! (cheap ass Internet connection)

For those of whom do not know: Left 4 Dead is a new zombie survival horror game from the game developer Valve (the guys who brought you Half Life 1,2 Portal and Team Fortress) With the amazing Source physics engine running the game with Valves superb HDR and fancy image rendering software Left 4 Dead will be an amazing game

The demo involves you trying to escape from hoards of zombies in all shapes and sizes through 2 levels. You are given a choice of 2 weapons at the start which soon get replaced by more loud, faster and heavier weapons.

The AI of the zombies and the 3 other characters you play with is outstanding, for example if you close a door behind you the zombies will smash their way through, Or if you close one they will smash through the one at the other end of the corridor (happened to me in the bathroom) Not to mention when you stray away from you companions. The game realises this and sends in the stray Hunter zombie to pick you off. Very clever indeed

To bring this quick mini talk about the Left 4 Dead demo, Witches. Zombified girls or women who are super fast, super agile and super Strong. You can tell them a mile away. The music goes quiet, you hear a girl sobbing into her hands, your team mates tell you to turn off your flashlight. You creep up to her to take her out…and BOOM! she goes screaming and clawing away at you before you can blink, Ive tried throwing bombs, Molotov cocktails at her even sending in another team mate to do my dirty work. She is a tough bitch to take down ill tell you that!

Ugly Bitch ain't she?!

For those who are still unsure of Left 4 Dead. Think resident evil, 28 days later, Dawn of the dead and Half life 2 all mixed into one brain munching experience. By far the first demo which has left me saying “I want this game NOAW!”

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Campbell