The definition of a classic zombie game.
Left 4 dead was a big part of my time growing up and playing video games. I feel like it's been sort of forgotten about by many, but this was one of the definitive Co-op zombie games that really took off and started the big zombie craze in gaming.
There's so much I could say about this now, somewhat dead franchise but it's something you really have to experience. Basically, this is a first-person co-op shooter game set in a zombie apocalypse. It has horror, humor and action segments. The campaign mode can be played co-op or single player with AI and involves you traveling from safe room to safe room in cities, woods, suburbs and more. The infected run at full speed and swarm you fast so it's best to be on your toes constantly and watch out for different infected types. The different zombie types are all unique and actually fun to traverse and deal with where I feel like often modern games get them all wrong. The Tank is a roided out Hulk zombie, The Hunter crawls around and pounces on you. The smoker has a tongue that grabs and pulls you in, the boomer explodes green slime that blinds your vision and attracts the horde, and everyone's favorite is the witch. She acts as almost a banshee, crying to attract attention and then once disturbed unleashes all hell on you like some type of demon. All fun designs here with a lot of great memories. The different levels of the game all act like the continuation of the same story of survivors getting from point A to point B with them having their own unique movie poster and fun end credits that calls to your gamer tags as the actors playing the 4 main characters. The characters Zoe, Francis, Bill and Louis are all unique and fun to get to know as you play. The voice acting for the cast is pretty well done all around, along with an incredibly memorable sound design I still remember to this day. There is a story to follow here that continues to the DLC that carries onto L4D2, but it isn't incredibly deep. A lot of the replay ability comes from the co-op and Verses modes where you face other players as survivors or become infected with the ability to attack other teammates. Though this first game is a classic and very memorable there really isn't much reason to play this first one because almost everything in this game including all levels and characters are added to LFD2 as DLC. There are some level, enemy and weapon changes they made in LFD2 so it is a bit of a different experience from the original but still great and probably a better version of the game, but this is still a classic.
9.5/10
Left 4 dead was a big part of my time growing up and playing video games. I feel like it's been sort of forgotten about by many, but this was one of the definitive Co-op zombie games that really took off and started the big zombie craze in gaming.
There's so much I could say about this now, somewhat dead franchise but it's something you really have to experience. Basically, this is a first-person co-op shooter game set in a zombie apocalypse. It has horror, humor and action segments. The campaign mode can be played co-op or single player with AI and involves you traveling from safe room to safe room in cities, woods, suburbs and more. The infected run at full speed and swarm you fast so it's best to be on your toes constantly and watch out for different infected types. The different zombie types are all unique and actually fun to traverse and deal with where I feel like often modern games get them all wrong. The Tank is a roided out Hulk zombie, The Hunter crawls around and pounces on you. The smoker has a tongue that grabs and pulls you in, the boomer explodes green slime that blinds your vision and attracts the horde, and everyone's favorite is the witch. She acts as almost a banshee, crying to attract attention and then once disturbed unleashes all hell on you like some type of demon. All fun designs here with a lot of great memories. The different levels of the game all act like the continuation of the same story of survivors getting from point A to point B with them having their own unique movie poster and fun end credits that calls to your gamer tags as the actors playing the 4 main characters. The characters Zoe, Francis, Bill and Louis are all unique and fun to get to know as you play. The voice acting for the cast is pretty well done all around, along with an incredibly memorable sound design I still remember to this day. There is a story to follow here that continues to the DLC that carries onto L4D2, but it isn't incredibly deep. A lot of the replay ability comes from the co-op and Verses modes where you face other players as survivors or become infected with the ability to attack other teammates. Though this first game is a classic and very memorable there really isn't much reason to play this first one because almost everything in this game including all levels and characters are added to LFD2 as DLC. There are some level, enemy and weapon changes they made in LFD2 so it is a bit of a different experience from the original but still great and probably a better version of the game, but this is still a classic.
9.5/10