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Left 4 Dead
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Left 4 Dead puts players in the role of one of four survivors during a zombie apocalypse. Survivors will depend on co-operation to get from one safe house to another, while facing hordes of "Infected", four of which can be controlled by human players in certain game modes.
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"A shortage of content is the only thing keeping this unique cooperative zombie shooter from eating you alive."
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Lack of length and content makes L4D a rental

Pros: -Co-op game play can be fun -Zombies attack from random spots which keeps you on your toes -Some interesting game play design ideas Cons: -Too short and not enough levels or content to justify a… Read more

Great game from Valve

Gameplay- Before i played this game i heard allot of people saying that this game is really good and most of the comments about this game are good. Then i played co-op single player with my brother at… Read more

If you have three friends, this game is a blast.

The Short Pros - Four player zombie-shooting co-op action - Simple shooter to learn, difficult to fully perfect - Four scenarios (more with free DLC on PC) and a wave-based survival mode - Full mod su… Read more

Left 4 Dead

Quite brilliant. A tense, absorbing and addictive game, that benefits a great deal from the organic integration of co-operative play and fantastic level design. While there's no written narrative to s… Read more

What else can you want besides killing zombies?

Killing zombies has always been fun. There are numerous movies, games, TV shows or even comic books who predict some sort of an infestation which will transform people into zombies. We all love zombie… Read more

I'm tired of these mother......zombies in this mother...... game!

While I do consider Valve to be a very consistent developer in the vein of Bioware and Bethesda, the one thing the company doesn't do for me is have every franchise be something that I love to the cor… Read more

An instant classic in the Survival Horror/ Shooter genre

Where to start? Left 4 Dead was a game I had been anticipating for a very long time ever since I had seen the first video of gameplay on the Internet. It was a game that was going to push the hardware… Read more

First Steam Game, wont ever forget

L4D is perhaps the best FPS ive ever played, and no doubt the best zombie game. it was my first Steam game. The AI Director keeps u in suspense, and all the game modes are fun. The gameplay mechanics… Read more

Zombie slaughtering fun fest!

The idea behind Left 4 Dead is a simple one, the developers wanted to create an enjoyable multiplayer co-operative experience, that had replay-ability. The theme was decided as part of this basic desi… Read more

Boomers Cohere, but story is nil

For those who don’t know. I am not an online multiplayer type. Sorry. If this insults you, so long, there are better reviewers who have much kinder things to say about the online experience. The singl… Read more

A little Repetitive, but Replayable to an Extreme

OK, Valve is up there with Blizzard for the best developers on the planet and able to determine whatever their release schedule is going to end up being. L4D is one of the most enjoyable concepts for… Read more

A zombie game I actually enjoyed.

I hate zombie games, I never found a point to them. However, upon being turned on to this one by my friend, I decided to try a title that would turn out to be my favorite video game. When I first saw… Read more

300 Word Review - Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead is an online cooperative first-person shooter that pits four survivors against hordes of swarming zombies. The object of the game is to defend each other as you make your way through a cam… Read more

The Dead Roam the Net.

Zombies are easily in the top ten of popular culture icons that all geeks, nerds, and activists seem to never get enough of. Right up there with the likes of pirates and ninjas, zombies, and the zombi… Read more

Left 4 Dead is the definitive zombie experience

Valve has done it again. With fantastic games like Portal, Team Fortress and Half-Life, they are among the most successful and acclaimed developers around. And there's a new franchise on the block: Le… Read more

Left 4 Dead (Release Review)

Left 4 Dead Pepsi > Coke Developer: PC - VALVe Software 360 - Certain Affinity Release Date: November 18, 2008 Distribution Method: Steam, EBGames, Direct2Drive, etc Price: $49.99 (Steam) ERSB Rati… Read more

Cold drink to the kidneys. Console FPS man vigor!!!

SHAKE DAT BEAR I used to play a lot of FPS games. I grew up on id classics breaking my mind into PC gaming goodness. PC games were the shit cause of their adult subject matter and badass gameplay. I w… Read more

Slightly brain-dead.

When you break Left 4 Dead down to its core components it's a relatively basic game; you grab some items, run through a level shooting countless common infected, fight a few special infected, and even… Read more

Dont Pay for this if you dont play lots of Co-Op.

Left 4 Dead is a zombie survivor story. You are given 4 seperate places to escape the zombie invasion along with 3 other NPC’s. You can have the option to play locally 4 player, online co-0p or by you… Read more

Survival at its best!!!

Left 4 dead is a big step up from most zombie games these days but does it have what it takes to scare the hell out of us with it's fast paced gaming. Positive: Great fast feeling Good idea and concep… Read more

Left 4 Dead Review

Left 4 Dead is a game for the XBOX360 console in which you will be assuming the role of 1 of 4 different characters. You and the other 3 characters are survivors of a zombie infestation. It is your jo… Read more

One of the best games to play when your friends come over!

What a rocking game! My friend and and i can't seem to get enough of it. Choosing your fave character, getting out in the streets, and killing the undead is awesome. The game has no straight story. Th… Read more

Left 4 Dead -- Where You'll Find Me

most first person shooters are designed to transplant gamers into other worlds, times or places of imagination. picking up new weapons, you take on the role of one-man army leading other non-playable… Read more

Great presentation but the gameplay...not so much.

So I have my fair share of playing games that has had zombies such as the Resident Evil series, Dead Rising ( bleh ), etc. Although normally I wouldn't be so giddy if it wasn't for Valve developing it… Read more

An addictive shooter that's even better when played with friends.

Let's be honest -- the zombie apocalypse isn't likely to happen anytime soon. Luckily, zombie aficionados can still get their fix in Valve's recent zombie-survival game, Left 4 Dead. In Left 4 Dead's… Read more

Finally a Good Zombie Game other than RE

Left 4 Dead is, in my opinion, the best zombie game so far. People may say there is not enough content, but i can assure you that if you buy it, you will be playing it for a while, and once in a while… Read more

Another masterpiece by the one and only

This game is great ! and I mean amazing ! at first I was not into it at all and it was the last game I ever wanted to buy. However, things changed. This game has one of the greatest multiplayer experi… Read more

Nevermind the Bollocks, here's the Zombies!

That's what they should have called this game. No long winded story about vials in labs or infected monkeys, just "You are here, you need to get there, there are zombies in the middle, go." In short t… Read more

Left 4 Dead, an experience you won't forget!

In short : It's a great shooter that's different every time you re play it. Although I do feel like it has no real story, it only adds to the replay value in my opinion. It's a game you can play over… Read more

Short Review

Originally posted on my blog There was a day, back in my youth, when I abhorred first-person shooters. Sure, I played some Goldeneye here and there with my friends, but I was never a Doom, Unreal, or… Read more

Love it

I love this game! Great game to play online with your friends and is always great fun. Not a great fan of the horde update and would have prefered new levels to play in campaign mode, but otherwise it… Read more

Left 4 Dead will leave you "Grabbin' Pills!"

Left 4 Dead is a shooter from Valve, which was originally being developed by Turtle Rock Studios. It places the player in post-apocalyptic zombie environment, the player and their three companions mus… Read more

More maps and weapons could elevate this game

Left 4 Dead may not have any breakthroughs, but what it does have are all done right. Choose from one of four characters who are survivors of what appears to be the beginning of a zombie outbreak. The… Read more

Four Survivors And Bloodthirsty Zombies: What Could Go Wrong?

Many games have tried to show what the inevitable zombie apocalypse will look like, but simply put, Left 4 Dead is the most exciting and original survival horror game to hit the market. The majority o… Read more

Left 4 Dead

It's a scientific fact that the zombie apocalypse is coming, and soon. The arrival of Left 4 Dead marks the beginning of what is hopefully a long line of games by Valve, the 'gaming artists' behind a… Read more

Left 4 Dead unbias review

4/5 stars Left 4 Dead offers some incredibly creative ideas and executes them well, but the problems with it are minor and can be forgotten once your knee deep in shotgun shells and zombie bodies. the… Read more

L4D makes online play easy breezy

I've had a 360 for two years now and have just started dipping my toes into the online gaming pool. I was always a bit overwhelmed and shy with the idea of playing a game with complete strangers. But… Read more

Zombie fun with friends!

http://reviews.revolve21.com/2009/04/review-left-4-dead.html Developer/Publisher: Valve Corp. (Certain Affinity Xbox 360 version) Release Date: November 18, 2008 Rating: M for Blood and Gore, Intense… Read more

Killing Zombies has Never Been so Great

Valve has once again mastered the art of multiplayer gaming when they released Left 4 dead for Xbox 360 and PC. Left 4 dead takes cooperative gameplay and combines it with good 'ol fashioned zombie bl… Read more

Eat your heart out Resident Evil...literally

Put yourself in the middle of a city in the grips of a full scale zombie cluster-fuck. And what you get is Left 4 Dead. In this shooter you get game design not normally seen on consoles. We are all us… Read more

The Worst-named game of 2008

What’s in a name? Well many dollars out of the marketing budget for one. I’ve been refusing to give this game a fair shake for the better part of five months by in large for having such a bad name. “L… Read more

A brilliant shooter everyone should experience

Left 4 Dead, although not a pure Valve developed game, does exemplify Valve's brilliant track record of outstanding game design brilliantly. This co-op zombie shooter is so exceptionally designed that… Read more

Left 4 Dead Review for Xbox 360

Left 4 Dead is a first-person shooter from the guys that made the Half-Life and Half-Life 2 series. The game has 4 levels with each containing 5 sub-levels. The guns in the games are very limited, you… Read more

Pure Online Multiplayer Fun

Left 4 Dead is from Valve, the huge PC developer that create the Half-Life Series, Counterstrike, Portal, and Team Fortress. Valve doesn't put out a whole lot of games, but the ones they do put out ar… Read more

Left 4 Dead

The title is wrong. Its not Left 4 Dead. Its Left 4 MOTHERFUCKING ITS BRILLIANT Dead. Thats how good it is. Zombies and games go together like butter and toast. Its fulfils our desires to shoot someth… Read more

Left 4 Dead Review

I've been playing Left 4 Dead for several months now and can easily say it is one of the best FPS games i have ever played, It is so well designed and melds so well that it creates a fantastic single… Read more

Like having a beer in the backyard, but with a mouse in your hand

When I think FPS, I normally think 15-20 weapon types, at least half of them with an alternate firing mode, 15-20 minutes of mowing down the same enemy with a different hat, pants, or skin color over… Read more

Co-op, zombies, what more could you ask for?

There have been multiple attempts at making a game based on Co-op, and almost every time with ether bad, or very mixed results. Well famous game studio Valve, behind the Half-Life series, has delivere… Read more

3 years in development for this???

FYI: I am also x3lnaga86, so i didn't plagiarize. Four player online co-op game that invites you and 3 other friends/people to shoot lots and lots of zombies. This concept sounded amazing, yet the fin… Read more

Hello Zombie

Left 4 Dead Review Valve previously famous for their Half life franchise, has now once again hit the nail on the head with Left 4 Dead, a zombie first person shooter. These aren't your every day slow… Read more

Zombie madness? Fo sho!

Valve's masterful creation - Left 4 Dead is one of the best games of the year. It's a zombie FPS, which involves you, and 3 other people (bots, your XBL buddies or random Koreans) shooting them in the… Read more

"Left 4 Dead" is the surprise hit of the year

At PAX 2008, I saw a booth for "Left 4 Dead" and passed it by, thinking it was some lame adaptation of "House of the Dead" from my childhood arcade days. Boy, did I eat my words. "Left 4 Dead" is with… Read more

If you love multiplayer FPS, get this game.

I will keep the review short. The graphics are good enough that you won't complain. The game is short but the replay factor is huge, you won't regret the length or content. The combat is such that it… Read more

Hail to the king baby.

Now, I will be the first to say that I LOVE when a story has depth and plot. There is nothing better then playing a fleshed out character in a world that you can somehow relate to. However, ALL my pre… Read more

Two thumbs up!!

Well its another zombie game...... NO ITS NOT!!! This highly interactive game is not only fun but it challenges you differently every single time you play it!!! This wonderful little guy is called the… Read more

A definite co-op experience you simply must play.

It’s been an untold amount of years since we’ve had anything remotely close to a zombie survival game. Sure Horde mode in Gears of War 2 is fun and zombified Nazis in Call of Duty: World at War is fin… Read more

A truly thrilling co-op experience...

Just when it seemed Capcom had successfully cornered the zombie horror market with the Resident Evil series, out of nowhere pounces Valve's Left 4 Dead, with its surprisingly lucrative co-op-focused t… Read more

Dead Good

I have always been a fan of the good old zombie movies. Nothing beats a bunch of survivers fighting for survival against the inevitable zombie apocolypse and as the Bombcast stated this game isnt a ga… Read more

Now's your chance to play hero.

I know in my youth whenever I watched zombie horror movies I thought to myself 'I think I could handle myself if this happened to me.' It might only be a game, but Left 4 Dead is what you could essent… Read more

Game of the Year.

I have played most of the big dogs this year, and while all of them were good, they were all also something most of us have played before; in other words, they were sequels. Gears 2 I thought was fant… Read more

Valve is still king of the FPS genre.

Valve’s latest First Person Shooter Left 4 Dead takes place two weeks after the outbreak of a zombie virus. We are introduced to four survivors: Bill, Francis, Louis and Zoey. We are not given any det… Read more

Great with friends

It is a great game co-op is the thing whats it does different from other games is it creates a atmosphere like no other. okay so your playing with four friends on xbox live (assuming you have that man… Read more

Mmmm, Smoker Dust

There is no better indicator of what kind of year 2008 was with releases of shooters that treaded new ground in platforming, role-playing, and the infected taking over the world one campaign at a time… Read more

TAAAANK!

I love this game. I got the demo for this game back in october, and played it pretty much all the time. The fact that there was only 2 parts of 1 level to play and only the campaign, did not decrease… Read more

Full price for a half game?

If someone told me last year that I would be tricked into paying 50 bucks for a game with 4 levels, I'm not sure I would have believed that anyone would even release a game like that, much less that I… Read more

Reloading!

Whenever Valve announces a game, they tell you everything beforehand, maybe leave one thing hidden for some other event and go silent. Absolute dead on silent. Pretty much the same thing happened with… Read more

This is the closest you'll find to Dawn of the Dead.

Left 4 Dead really captures what it would be like in a zombie apocolypse. Unlike Resident Evil's slow and solitary zombies Left 4 Dead gives the new "28 Days Later" type of zombies. These zombies are… Read more

Hungry 4 More

Left 4 Dead. It was insane how hyped up I was for this game. It has been in development for three or four years now, and I was on board from the very beginning. The concept is so basic, yet Valve agai… Read more

Some pondering on Left 4 Dead.

At first glance one would not hesitate to throw a 5 star rating at Left 4 Dead. It's jsut so damn original and clever. The game focuses on the adventure of 4 survivers as they traverse through 4 scena… Read more

The Ultimate Co-op experience.

I have always been a big fan of co-op games and zombie games, Left 4 Dead is the epitome of both genres. The game continually impresses from it's gloomy, creepy atmosphere. Atmosperic sound, unnerving… Read more

A near perfect shooter that pits you against zombie armageddon

Left 4 Dead may look like a simple first person shooter at first, but underneath it may have reinvented the way we play games. Much like Valve did with last year's highly acclaimed Portal, Left 4 Dead… Read more

Left 4 Dead offers superb cooperative play

Valve has been known for creating some of the most memorable games to grace the PC and more recently the Xbox 360. Left 4 Dead is the latest hit game to be released from the company and brings togethe… Read more

Left 4 Dead is a thrilling zombie nightmare.

To start off, I'll say that Left 4 Dead is one of the best games of the year, as seems to be typical of a game released by Valve, who have been on a roll for years now. Although it is not as content-p… Read more

Flashlights off!!!

L4D has perfect group of things to make a game , Zombies, a city that makes Racoon city look like a walk in the park and 4 survivors being a Vietnam vet and biker and young girl and Louis. What more c… Read more

Valve's vision of survival horror is fully realized

Looking back, only a game or two that I can think of have actually attempted to take on the zombie apocalypse in online form, throwing players–competitively or cooperatively–into a world decimated by… Read more

The foundations are set for a great IP...

It's just a shame that Left 4 Dead isn't great itself yet. I want to really like Left 4 Dead but it's lacking in content and has a few issues which badly break the game right now. For example if you d… Read more

almost perfect

overall I love this game, the emphasis on teamwork is refreshing. the A.I. is amazing and the "director" keeps repeat playability high. the four difficulty levels are almost perfect, easy for when you… Read more

So close

When I first heard there would be an AI director I thought about infinite replayability. When I heard it only pertained to spawning zombies, my enthusiasm dropped a bar, when I played the demo I peake… Read more

great in multiplayer, lacking in content and story

Ever since the original Half-life came out for the PC over a decade ago, Valve, the developer behind the masterpiece, has continued to put out truly imaginative and fantastical games with such detaile… Read more

Efficient and refined, L4D is sure to please anyone with a brain.

L4D is a hard game, no doubt about it. In this game only cooperation with your teammates will keep you alive in the gruesome zombie apocalypse. If you try to be a lone wolf you'll most likely get kill… Read more

Left 4 Dead is a game any zombie loving, online aficionado should

When it was announced that Valve was working on a zombie game using the source engine, unprecedented excitement occurred. Many wondered what the creators of many beloved games would do next. When it w… Read more

Left 4 Dead: BOOM! Headshot!

Short and to the Point Left 4 Dead By: mrhankey To be honest, I recently have found it hard to get very excited over a game. Seriously, Fallout 3 was, well, meh. Spore, became frustrating towards the… Read more

Absolutely awesome.

It’s tough to not associate Valve with quality at this point, so it’s no surprise to see that their latest, Left 4 Dead, is completely awesome. It successfully blends the cinematic and grandiose quali… Read more

Quick review

Good: + Good Zombie fun + Versus mode is a damn fun mode to play with 7 friends + With every slot filled the game has insane replay value in terms of the experience not being the same twice with human… Read more

A terrific Co-op experiance.

Pros Some of the best Team Based action around. Versus mode is a good way to mix things up when you've played the campaign to bits. It's good at making you jump. Cons Only four maps which on Normal at… Read more

Left 4 Dead

A slight lack of content and a few connection issues are the only things holding back one of the most enjoyable shooting experiences I've had in years. The normal gameplay isn't particularly deep; the… Read more

Left 4 Dead Review

Left 4 Dead is the kind of game that comes around once every four or five years that makes you seriously look at what "multiplayer" is and how it can be improved upon. With titles like Gears of War 2… Read more

RELOADING!

Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead, the latest game from PC shooter dev Valve, is a game where you kill (rekill?) zombies. Lots of zombies. In it's current state, it is a bit disappointing in terms of content, b… Read more

killing zombies is such fun!

have the full game, really, this game is FUN! the campaigns are not too long, so if you wanna take a brake from work to kill some zombies, this is it. if you play in 'Advance' mode you won't find it t… Read more

Left 4 Dead

This game is alot of fun if you have 3 friends handy, it boils down to essencialy a 4 player co-op linear shooter, where there is a serious threat of not passing the level (unlike halo). The controls… Read more

I feel like a movie star!

Playing a few moments of Left 4 Dead will remind you of scenes from “Dawn of the Dead”, “28 Days Later” and countless other what I call fast-mover zombie movies. Every level or "Act" in the game has a… Read more

This game is SICK!!!!

This game, like I said in the title, is super sick! There is no wait period, no epilogue, no training map. it just throws you into the action. And apart from the needed break here and there, the actio… Read more

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