Left 4 Dead 2 takes place at roughly the same time as the original, and leads four new “Survivors†through the southeastern United States — from Savannah, Georgia to New Orleans’ French Quarter. The title adds melee combat, new monsters and weapons, the AI Director 2.0, and more to create a larger game than the original.
GenreFirst-Person Shooters
Platforms xbox360
DEVELOPER Valve | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Left 4 Dead 2 Reviews xbox360
gameshark.com review
As in the original, you can play Left 4 Dead 2 co-operatively with up to three other human players or a compliment of humans and AI bots. The best experience, of course, is that of sharing the game with a group of friends. The bots technically do their job, but they’re still just bots and if you were hoping the brain dead AI from the first game would be fixed here – well, sorry Charlie. The bots still refuse to throw pipe bombs.
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gamingnexus.com review
This is the unique experience of online multiplayer games, particularly first-person shooters that command such a community as this one does. Left 4 Dead 2 gamers on Xbox Live, and other online multiplayer games for that matter, create connections with one another that make this game far outlive a normal FPS shelf life.
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Official Xbox Magazine review
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acegamez.com review
Left 4 Dead 2 is a near perfect slice of gaming heaven, set in gaming hell. The graphics and sound have been enhanced, the gameplay has been refined, the new setting is well chosen and hugely varied, the new modes add even more playability, and the new weapons, items and enemies add even more substance to what is a surprisingly deep game, considering that, at its core, it’s a basic shooter/survival horror hybrid. It’s like the lovechild of Unreal Tournament and Resident Evil, and when you’ve got three good friends in tow to fend off the undead masses, it’s one of the best gaming experiences you can find online. It’s also very educational, too; when the zombie apocalypse finally happens for real, those few immune Left 4 Dead veterans will be the only ones left standing…
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gamingtarget.com review
I still haven’t mentioned the new multiplayer modes, have I? L4D2 expands the multiplayer beyond the cooperative and versus modes that accompanied the release of the original game. This time around survival mode, a mode available to the original L4D via free download, is included with the retail release. Best compared to Gears of War 2’s Horde mode or ODST’s Firefight mode, Survival is basically a fight against the clock. Brand new to L4D2 is Scavenge mode. This is a new type of versus mode that pits teams against each other as they take turns collecting gas cans and securing them by dumping them into a generator. It changes up the versus formula and gives it more of a finite goal.
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strategyinformer.com review
What brings out the zombies, however, are the special infected, those who are more powerful than your typical mindless pedestrians. The Spitter, Jockey and Charger do exactly as their names imply: spit, ride and charge. The Spitter literally shoots toxic goo, the Jockey jumps on top of players and rides them while slowly damaging them, and the Charger…well, the Charger will tackle you like a football player, then repeatedly slam you into the ground until it’s killed.
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gamernode.com review
The meat of the game, though, is in its game modes. The single-player campaign, online campaign, and online versus modes all return, as well as two new modes: Scavenge and Realism. In Scavenge, the survivors must find gas cans strewns throughout the level and use them to fill generators to keep the game going, while the Infected must kill them or blow up the cans themselves. Realism mode is the same as the Campaign, but the silhouettes showing the other players are gone, dead players can only be revived by a defibrillator kit and will not respawn, and only headshots will cause considerable damage to the Infected.
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destructoid.com review
Left 4 Dead 2 gives us control of four new survivors, Nick, Coach, Ellis and Rochelle, as they fight across the American South in five brand new campaigns. The core gameplay of Left 4 Dead remains relatively unchanged — you team up with three friends and blast your way through never-ending hordes of violent, rage-ridden zombies.
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game-over.com review
Survival mode has also returned, but it’ll likely be ignored in favor of Scavenge, an addition that duplicates Dead Center’s finale across several maps. Survivor teams have to bring as much gas as they can back to a generator. Each can returned refills a timer, but the real threat is the infected, who will almost always finish off the opposition before time runs out. The concept makes for some short and tense matches; a drawback is that players have to return to the lobby between maps, or else play the same map over and over again.
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worthplaying.com review
In spite of its few faults, Left 4 Dead 2 is a very worthwhile sequel, and any fears you may have about this game merely being an overpriced expansion will melt away as soon as you start playing. Besides, seeing Valve release two games from the same franchise in the span of a year gives me hope that I may actually see Half Life 2: Episode 3 released in my lifetime, and you wouldn’t want to steal away my hope, would you? Even if you don’t love zombies, play this game anyway. You’ll feel much better prepared when the real zombie apocalypse comes and the only thing standing between you and certain death is a shotgun, a med kit and three of your closest friends ready to help you clear a path through the horror.
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blog.gamer20.com review
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teamxbox.com review
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cheatcc.com review
Luckily, despite having arguably more difficult objectives throughout the game, Valve didn’t leave the survivors out to dry. There are so many additions to the items and weapons that survivors now have access to, it would be difficult to name them all, but I’ll give it a go. First off there are a ton of new projectile weapons including several different kinds of shotguns, rifles, uzis, and even a new magnum pistol and grenade launcher. You’ll find these scattered about every level, making switching between weapons and tactics throughout levels much easier and more worthwhile. For your main weapons you can also find explosive and incendiary rounds that can add their benefits to one clip worth of bullets for all four survivors. Explosive rounds do more damage and can stagger some enemies while incendiary round will catch anything shot by them on fire, which can also be spread by zombies bumping into one another.
ign.com review
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gamespy.com review
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gamedaily.com review
Speaking of dismemberment, you’ll see limbs fly all over the place. It’s not uncommon to finish a battle standing atop piles of decapitated corpses, or watch as arms and legs sail through the air.
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gamesaktuell.de review
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darkzero.co.uk review
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videogamesdaily.com review
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hellbored.com review
Regardless of the experience of your online team, one thing is guaranteed, and that is intense panic. In those rare moments when you are not fighting, the setting is eerie, and every corner must be checked, as the placement of the zombies is different every time you play through. The AI Director also controls team members so you don’t have to have a full team of four players for every level, and don’t have your numbers reduced if a players leaves mid-level. This Director is one of the best AI controllers you will ever see. While so many games give you teammates that are largely decorative, AI teammates will stick with you if the team gets split, will kill their fair share of enemies, and will heal you when required. The Director will also send random groups of infected after you if you wait too long in an area, forcing the tempo and tension to levels rarely experienced for sustained periods in any game. As with the original, there are also survival and versus modes (where you can play as the boss infected characters) for those that have completed the campaign, and new scavenge and realism modes thrown in for good measure.
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