Nothing provides as good of an enemy as a Zombie. Well, maybe a Nazi Zombie, but Zombies nonetheless. The Left 4 Dead series has earned a happy place of instantaneous love in my heart. But, it annoys the hell out of me.
“Dude, you’re in your 30’s. Why do you still play video games?” For this one reason: stress relief. Pure, unadulterated, bloodsplatteringly, and fantastically violent stress relief. And, yes. Be glad I don’t work for the post office. ;) Left 4 Dead 2 is my most recent pixilated enjoyment that’s become extremely difficult to put down. As Valve’s credit is due, they have created a masterpiece of a game… assuming you have friends to play it with. It presents a masterful play control and amazing ability to track your teammates. If you get lost, you can easily find and catch up with them again. OK, so what about those of us who don’t want to stay up all night playing games with twelve-year olds? The game’s single player mode isn’t so forgiving. Your CPU teammates never (and I mean, NEVER) take the lead. They’ll cover your butt and rescue you all day long, but trying to get the three of them through a campaign is like dragging along a 500 lb sledge hammer. Hello?! The zombie AI shouldn’t be smarter than they are. I’d like to be able to use the sniper rifle occasionally. And, it’d be nice if one of you jokers would throw a pipe bomb every once and a while, too. ;)
The character development, environments, graphics, soundtrack… it’s all astounding. Grab some buddies and at least go rent this game for nothing else if just to listen to Ellis’ redneck twang and quips:
”Did I teell yew abat dis time my kusin Keith drown’d in the Tunnel of Luuve?”
Hilarious!
Well, Excuse me for now. I have an undead clown that requires my assistance with a chainsaw…
l8rz!
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LOL! love it.
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