Left4Dead Review

"Go! go! GO!!! HERE it is!!!" i shout, Trudging painfully towards the door.'If i can enter it i will be safe'i thought as i made my way to it. As i entered the room, i breathed a sigh of relief. Glancing back, i saw the other three running towards me, with a huge chunk of meat following closely behind.As they enter, i try to close the door of the room before the chunk of meat entered the room.But a fraction of a second too late , i was sent flying backwards into the wall.Stunned,and struggling to get up, i watched in horror as the Meat turned and pounded the other three,who were low on health, to thier deaths. "Oh Nooooeee~!!!","WTH","OMG" and various other cries fill the air, along with the unsion of "Bwahahahaha" as the Meat proceeded towards me. "BANG!BANG!BLAMMO!DIE!!!"... i try in vain to kill the Chunk of Meat before it killed me ...
GAMEOVER

Yes, for those who know, this is indeed VALVE's amazing zombie riot,Left4Dead or L4D for short.
and yes again , that chunk of Meat is the Tank ..

for a moment, me and my friends were stars in an '80s action movie, sacrificing our lives so that another would go on living . You wont find that kinda spirit anywhere else nowadays anymore =)
It's an entirely new way to play with your friends,You and three others battle your way through a movie-inspired map,trying to reach safety.Four players, working together against overwhelming odds, where plans are borne out of desperation, meagre supplies ... and lots of skill and luck !

as stated in my previous blog entry, i've only played it two times. The first on normal difficulty with two other friends and the other on hard difficulty with three other friends ...
you get to choose(?) (or maybe its random) from four different characters. When you start a game, there will always be four of you... you +3Ai's or etc if you solo . A Macho Biker, a Sui girl, a Office worker, and a Apek...The first time i played, i got the Biker, and the second, mr office worker... but no matter what ,it makes no difference as the characters are all created equal and only there to differentiate between you and the zombies.You get a small set of weapons to use as you start, a pistol,a healthpack,and a choice of either a shotgun,rifle or an automatic weapon.( i always choose the shotgun=) anyway ). As you proceed through the level, you come across other weapons such as molotov cocktails,pipe Bombs and other enviromental weapons like gas and petrol tanks that you can pick-throw-shoot-explode.
Playing with the Ai is not that fun .But its a different story with a full complement of HUMAN players.Its knowing that you can scream for help and someone will come running to help you that makes this game what it is.(Of course there are those kind of Ngiau Chee People who dont bother to help at all,who watch and laugh as thier comrades die) In L4D,Your strength relies on the person next to you.. if he dies, you die...and you need to able to call that person to your side at any time.

A nice part of this game is it's beggining and end . The start is a movie poster with you name there "Drasilisk as Louis", "Draconic as Bill", "Dearth as Zoey" and "Komunis as Francis" look somethin like this ..( i noe the wording is off ... this is the first time im using a modifier tool kay ? =) ) and the end there's credits stating how many zombies were harmed in this production etc etc ...
like this
Zoey, the sui chabo
Bill, the apek
Francis, the Macho biker
Louis the office worker or what we call "Obama" =)


Although there are only four maps, each takes around one to 2 hours to complete, depending on the difficulty mode.You fight through a hospital,run through a forest,look for cococrunch in a farmland,shoot up zombie officers in the airport.There is no storyline but there is a backstory,told through "graffiti" on the walls, warnings from people who went ahead of you, messages to loved ones,conspiracy theories, you name it .

Sooo~ the zombies... in L4D they are called the "infected". people from all walks of life who are now insanely enraged at the sight of you... yes enraged.. they aren't your typical zombies either... they don't lumber slowly towards you.. instead they actually RUN to you!. the're scattered around the levels,some in backless gowns, some wearing fluorescent jackets, some policemen,moms,office workers,army men ... they walk around depressed,leaning forehead-first against walls,crying, vomiting... until they see you and come running .Don't worry they're easy to kill ! if not for the fact that they come in waves! there is no warning at all .. unless you accidentally make too much noise or hit by a boss monster's special attack... No. Just a sudden sound que and walah! the come ! SWARMING at your groupe. Nothing will stop them . If you climb onto a car , box or whatever, they will come scrambling up the sides,trying to get you. They run , sprint faces contorted with anger. and when they get you , they hit, swipe, claw,grab, kick you .. then they surround you, dragging you down onto the floor and stamping you to death! if no one comes to save you while you're being stamped, you might as well as gotten the message "GAMEOVER".Good thing is, you can push them away from you . the right mouse click is by default the button for a melee and push combination, which enables you to shove the infected away .
SCREAM FOR HELP AND YOU WILL BE HEEDED! ...or not

thats the infected ... now for those boss zombies.
the Boomer : i likey this faty =)
when he appears, a gurgling sound like a swamp monster is heard .. or for me personally i think he sounds like chewbacca (lol) he tries to ambush you , vommiting over you . yeah yuck! your screen will be filled with green goo for a few moments.
A few moments isn't much you say ? then how bout it's vomit attracts infected? they swarm towards you seconds after you are vommited on and you cant see anything well got la but blur... then if the Boomer is shot, he explodes =)

looks like me ey ? lol ...hope not

the Hunter : i've been pinned down by it a few times, and got slapped to death once !
it pounces onto you, pinning you to the ground. That would be fine if only you could shoot or push him away.. but its not cus he has to be pushed away by a teammate.. thats why i was slapped to death =( no one came to save me ! haha


the smoker: he smokes his pipe and coughs you to death ! ..actually he doesn't do that XD
he just snaps out its super long long long tounge, tying you up and either drains your health or allows other infected to kick you to death. Again, he has tp be killed by a teammate . So if you're incacipated by it, you can't escape unless some one saves you. For the smoker, when it dies it "pam pui" or fart into the air making you cough up the black smoke if you're stupid enough to go into the smoke =)



the Tank!: i mentioned him in the first part of this post din't i ? =)
Basically hes the HULK only not green in colour. One hit and you're sent flying backwards. he throws the earth at you from far, kinda like Donkey Kong , and he runs like a gorrila .Another thing is that he has a massive amount of life so hes hard to tackle ... so once again you need friends ! =)


finally the Witch: The witch is a small small girl, a small girl who crys. Dont underestimate the power of se kia ! if you startle her , she comes running at you, pinning you to the ground and .. eh? you're dead


the first 3 bosses seem to be really common cause we encounter them alot but the tank and witch are more rare

what makes this so nice?
there is no specific "spawn-spots" everything is randomly spawned so every game of L4D is never the same at all in one game, you might find the witch crying in a corner, but in another game, the witch isn't there. This adds to the element of surprise in the game.Thus making it so great to play. Of course you will have a headache after the game ( for un-fps-er's)
cause its so concentration-sucking one wrong move and your party is dead =)

oh yea in hard difficulty , you can shoot you friends to death too =) most of the time by accident =)

oh wow .. looki at how long this post is ! lol
next up in reviews, a game from NDS (Nintendo Dual Screen) Disgaea DS !
im using a emulater to play it from here

random pic =)