The Ultimate Left 4 Dead Guide

Written by Spive | Tue, Nov 11th, 7:29 pm | Game Guides

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Valve is back with its first major release since it's wildly successful Half-Life:Episode 2, otherwise known as Orange Box. Left 4 Dead ("L4D") pits 4 human players called Survivors against a city full of zombies known as the Infected. The Surivivors are immune to a zombie virus that has spread through the region over the last 2 weeks. These four lucky Survivors cover a broad demographic group - Bill the crusty old Vietnam war vet; Louis the assistant manager at a local electronics store; Francis the tattoed biker who doesn't look like he's shy around a Harley; and Zoey the young female urbanite. There is no character classes in L4D - all the Survivors have the same gameplay characteristics.

The story starts in the games opening movie...



...and the players find themselves on the roof of a downtown building which is the start of the first of four campaigns. Every campaign has about 5 maps each ending in a final stand at the end of each campaign.

No Mercy - urban setting with lots of dark, abandoned buildings
Blood Harvest - moves outside into the forest
Dead Air - back into the city for battles on rooftops
Death Toll - the final campaign takes place back out in the countyside

Valve has opted for a different take on the shooter this time around. No 32 player, 16 vs 16 team matches here. L4D can be played either in Single player, where you choose one of the Surivivors to play and the three remaining humans become your AI teammates. In Campaign mode, you go online to fight as Survivors in a 4 player coop. In Versus mode, you get 4 Survivors vs 4 Boss Infected - all humanly controlled.

L4D is available on Nov 18th, 2008 on PC (either through Steam or retail) and XBox360. You can play the demo now via Steam or grab it on XBox Live.

System Requirements

Minimum

Supported OS: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / Vista64
Processor: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
Memory: 1 GB
Graphics: 128 MB, Shader model 2.0, ATI 9600, NVIDIA 6600 or better
Hard Drive: At least 7.5 GB of free space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Recommended

Supported OS: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / Vista64
Processor: Intel core 2 duo 2.4GHz
Memory: 1 GB
Graphics: Shader model 3.0, NVIDIA 7600, ATI X1600 or better

Xbox 360

Internet connection and Xbox Live Gold Membership required.


Without further ado, lets get to the guide. We've broken this guide down to a few different sections...












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