Video: Left 4 Dead playable zombie details

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Video: Left 4 Dead playable zombie details

Posted Sep 19th 2008 5:00PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Left 4 Dead

GameTrailers has released an extended version of its interview with Chet Faliszek, writer for Left 4 Dead. The interview focuses on the game's playable zombies, who do their best to do in the opposing team of human survivors. Competitive play has players switching between the human survivors and the zombie Infected each round. After each team plays as both sides, the score is tallied based on which team of survivors made it the farthest. Those controlling the Infected will utilze the special abilities of the more unique zombies such as the Smoker, who can reel humans in with a very long tongue. Working together, the Infected can create unique strategies to bring the humans down. An example given in the video is to reel in a player with a Smoker, and then use a Boomer character's vomit to attract more zombies to the area.

Oh yeah, did we mention that players controlling a Boomer get to use vomit as a weapon? Yeah, they do.

Tags: left-4-dead, valve, valve-software

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

9-19-2008 @ 5:13PM

Arnon said...

GOD I want this game so BADLY

9-21-2008 @ 11:14AM

wickedpheonix said...

+1.... L4D is GOTY for sure. People are going to be disappointed with gears 2 I think especially the multiplayer, and rock band 2 was basically just a hell of a lot of DLC. What else is there really?

9-19-2008 @ 5:25PM

ChewyDogg said...

G O Y

9-19-2008 @ 5:43PM

Mal F4cti0n said...

At least Action GOY or Multiplayer GOY.

Zombies.......who doesn't like zombies?

9-20-2008 @ 7:49PM

mean2u said...

Now about that demo.. hmm.

9-21-2008 @ 3:02PM

Neuromancer said...

That guy Chet used to run Old Man Murray, who invented the famous start-to-crate review system for games. This objectively quantified the quality of a game by counting how many seconds it takes before the player encounters their first crate. Very funny:

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html

9-22-2008 @ 5:10AM

Boff said...

Can't wait to try this game out! Not too long to go now....

9-22-2008 @ 11:44AM

manifest said...

"For me personally, I love to vomit on people"

hahah - awesome.

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