

Slay zombies as one of the following survivors: Coach, Nick, Ellis, or Rochelle.Run like the wind, or you’ll be bitten by meat-hungry zombies! However, Left 4 Dead 2 still gets community-designed scenarios while developers from other studios have created original "horde survival shooters" that put a unique spin on the Left 4 Dead formula.In a world where the dead craves for the flesh of the living, four survivors must stay alive and find the light at the end of the tunnel in Left 4 Dead 2! This game is the most anticipated sequel to the most popular cooperative first-person (first-zombie rather, pun intended) game where the characters face hordes of zombies in an unexpected journey of survival. Related: Beloved Left 4 Dead Characters Crossover Into Zombie Army 4Īfter releasing a DLC Update called " The Sacrifice" for Left 4 Dead 2 in 2010, Valve moved on with other projects. The big draw of the Left 4 Dead series, besides their quality blending of four-player co-op with horror, was their use of an "AI Director" to organically create scenarios of rising and falling narrative tension - fresh hordes of zombies when things were getting boring, med-kits and ammo when players needed a break. The players of these games are asymptomatic survivors who must makes their way between safe-houses, scavenging weapons, ammo, and med-kits while fending off "special infected" with the ability to drag them away from the group. Game designers at other studios, however, have used Left 4 Dead's gameplay as inspiration for their own multiplayer FPS games about squads fending off hordes of monsters.īoth Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2 take place in a world overrun by a zombie apocalypse, the product of an airborne viral contagion that mutates people into fast-running zombies and grotesque monstrosities.

Valve, the makers of ground-breaking games like Half-Life and Portal, haven't expressed much interest in publishing a third installment for Left 4 Dead, a co-operative first-person shooter series about gun-toting survivors trying to escape hordes of mutated zombies.
