Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Left 4 Dead

Well, I played the demo and the actual game once each at my friend, B's, house and I have to say it's really fun. Unfortunately, with my 'gift', the computer tried really hard to kill me. B said he played the demo over 4 times and has never seen that much bosses and zombies in one playthrough. I'll give two examples of what I mean. In the demo, just after stepping out of the safe room, it literally began to rain zombies, about 30 or so. They just came falling from the ceiling. Next, how many players can claim being attacked by all three usual bosses within 5 secs of each other. First a Smoker got me and started pulling me up. Then, when the ai teammate shot it and I dropped on the floor, a Boomer throws up on me and i get swarmed. Finally, just as the bile clears from the screen, i get pounced on by a Hunter.

Later on, when he got the game, I tried out a campaign online. Well, the people I ended up playing with turned out to be idiots. Always refusing to help me while I got them out of messy situations and helped earn them achievements. First of all, when I got pulled by a Smoker, they just watched and waited while I died. I decided to be forgiving and thought maybe they just couldn't get a shot. (Though the Smoker was on a rooftop in plain view.) But the last straw came when we reached a part with a turret. Now, normally in a team game one person would man the turret while his teammates covered his blind sides. So i manned the gun and believed that the team would know what to do as the first wave appeared but lo and behold, i was suddenly losing alot of life. As I turned around, i noticed the other 3 guys were standing 20 meters back doing nothing. What great team players. Well, my powers helped me get revenge as later, I decided to play their way so when a Boomer puked on them, i just sidestepped into a clump of trees. What happened next was beautiful as about 100 zombies swarmed past me and descended upon them without noticing me and the others took a heck of alot of damage. Unfortunately, my powers backfired on me at the last area when we faced 4 Tanks in the last area, 3 at a house and 1 just outside the exit. And, the moment they saw the last Tank, 2 of them jumped past me and another dude and ran for it, where they proceeded to aid the Tank in finishing the both of us so they could save themselves.

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