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вЂњIntroducing the AI Director 2.0, L4D's dynamic gameplay is taken to the next level by giving the Director the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players' performance.вЂќ HummmвЂ¦ Sounds to me like they made a few tweaks and decided to call it вЂњ2.0вЂќ вЂ“ besides, I doubt those changes will make paying $50 for a game you have already bought any more appealing. вЂњвЂ¦the title adds melee combat to enable deeper co-operative gameplay, with items such as a chainsaw, frying pan, axe, baseball bat, and more.вЂќ Oh Valve, why must you, seemingly, copy other games? Two of the three items that you listed feature prominently in the rival zombie co-op game Killing Floor, while the others are lifted from another competitive title, Zombie Panic вЂ“ while this does not mean that you are intentionally plagiarizing content, all of the items mentioned are standard in any anti-zed armory, this, coupled with such things are the Left 4 Dead sale that just вЂњhappenedвЂќ to be almost directly on the release of Killing Floor, looks really bad. As for the other promises, well, I am starting to doubt Valve will actually keep its word as they also promised features in Left 4 Dead that have still not been implemented. вЂњвЂ¦L4D2 promises to set a new benchmark for co-operative action games and become one of 2009's marquee titles.вЂќ Well, considering that Left 4 Dead is considered to be, by many, including myself, inferior to both the older Killing Floor modification and the newer retail release of the aforementioned modification, I doubt that Left 4 Dead 2 will contain anything that will drastically alter cooperative gameplay. Nevertheless, you say, why would you think this? Well, let us examine the press release. This is nothing more than an attempt to squeeze monies out of gamers who have already bought the first game, a game that is now going to obsolete is less than one year since its release. The вЂњsequelвЂќ looks, to me, like the product that should have been released last year вЂ“ the product that they are expecting us to re-buy to get the new features, features that should have been in the original game or, at a minimum, patched into it at a later time. I do not know about you, but, after reading the initial descriptions of Left 4 Dead 2, I feel more irritated and disappointed than excited and interested. And I would hate for Vavle to compromise that simple, but genius, gameplay element.Д«ut the idea of permanent injuries (at least until you get to a safehouse or you find some special medkit) is a very cool idea and so is barricading/fusing doors (even if does rip off Killing Floor a bit). That's what I find so facinating about this game - you are forced to work together with strangers, who seems familiar due to the recognizable avatars of Zoey, Francis, Bill and Louis.

if I'm more concerned with unlocking 'cool ability n#12' than helping my team, then I would be worried that the basis of the game dissapears - and L4D would be reduced to yet another online shooter, where people aren't working together and just try to get the highest score (like the worst Versus game). I think the strength of L4D is it's decivingly simple gameplay - introducing rpg elements and/or customizable characters/weapons would take away from the core of the game, which imo is 'work together or die'.

Left 4 dead forum full#

But for a full on second game, I would hope to see more significant improvements like barricading doors, rpg lite stuff in players or weapons (its The New Thing), new super zombies, permanent injuries (broken bones that only allow assisted movement), players coming back as zombies, events or somesuch splitting up players temporarily, and more playable characters with different strengths and weaknesses.