Left 4 Dead

So for another day or two Left 4 Dead is half price on steam. Don't switch off! Hear me out. Left 4 Dead is a survival horror game, played co-operatively by up to 4 players, hence the oh so witty title. Pete and I have been waiting for that price drop and wasted no time (literally about three seconds after the announcement) before buying it. Today we finished the Death Toll campaign. Well. I did. Sadly Pete didn't make it.

It all started well. All we had to do was hold out in a house while we waited for the boat to arrive for us to get to safety. Simple right? And it was all going reasonably well. The first tank turned up (more on that later) and we pwned him. Shitloads (like a couple of hundred) of zombies poured in and through the cunning use of pipebombs and sheer firepower we tore them to shreds. We knew from previous failures that we had a second tank to face before the boat turned up. And sure enough, a short while before Pete yells out that the tank is coming. (The tank's a big fuckoff zombie, I'll show you soon). Well me being the smart one I'm sat upstairs watching the staircase, ready to unload my shotgun in it's enormous bulbous ass when it runs up the stairs. But it's deathly quiet... for about five seconds.. and then I hear Pete yelling...
"Ahhh shit, it's got me. Downstairs! I'm getting bummed in the pantry!"
Yes, the fool had tried to hide himself in the pantry and the beast tore the door off and proceeded to tear his limbs off. Somehow, I saved him. And the boat turned up! Hurrah! Victory?

Well yes and no. Pete grabbed the last pipebomb we'd been saving and lobbed it. The horde went nuts and another hundred or so were engulfed in the resulting explosion... but there was too many!! Arrrggghhh! We ran like fuck for the boat but the horde swamped us. A boomer threw up on me and blinded me. Pete got eaten by a tank. Like totally eaten. Dead. Covered in boomer vomit, half blind and limping like a weasel with one leg I managed to kill the tank feasting on Pete's corpse and fought off the horde as I inched my way across the pier to the boat. Another tank turned up and lobbed a piece of some random building at me and thank god he missed. I made it onto the boat, along with the two AI players. And we left Pete's corpse behind as zombie food. I'm still high off the adrenaline.

So... What the fuck am I ranting about? Well I thought you'd never ask.

First off, here's the cinematic opening to Left 4 Dead. It shows the basic kinda things you can expect from the game and serves a sort of tutorial. Ie, don't set off car alarms, etc. Oh and that huge hulking behemoth. That's the tank. Watch both of these in full screen for best impact. In fact, click watch on youtube in the bottom right corner and you can watch full screen and HD. Awesomeness.



And here is what the actual game plays like. This is the finale of the Death Toll campaign... where Pete bought it. :D



Those guys are pretty good though. We suck.
So yeah. Zombie mayhem. Mega adrenaline. FUCKING AWESOME!! Man I cannot wait for tomorrow night. Bring it on!
*pulls out shotgun*
*chu-chuk*
Let's do it!