I spent a few hours last night playing Left 4 Dead with a friend. Just the two of us, me playing Francis and my friend Daniel playing Zoey, leaving the AI to pick up the slack for Bill and Louis. Honestly, we only intended to play a map or two — at least that was my intention — we got sucked into the game and kept going and going. However:
When I was incapacitated, who threw a Molotov on me and left me to slowly burn to death? Bill.
When I was incapacitated with a swarm of zombies eating my immobile body while I was trying to fend them off with a pistol, who didn’t revive me and instead ran across the entire map to revive Zoey? Bill.
Who jumped in front of everyone and startled every single Witch? Bill.
Who hogged all the medkits and pain pills? Bill.
When we already fighting a zombie horde, a Hunter and a Smoker, who ran off and brought us back a Tank? Bill.
Screw you, Bill!
Even though I wanted to throttle Bill (and I did shoot him on purpose a few times) I can say I’m honestly surprised how good L4D is on a pure level of fun. I’m not normally a heavy talker over VOIP but I was during L4D. Laughing, shouting, oohing, aahing, and OMG-ing! I’d also say that Left 4 Dead also ranks up there with Team Fortress 2 as being something casual players can easily jump into, even those who normally wouldn’t be into first-person shooters and in the case of the 360, also those such as myself who normally don’t do so well with controllers. Despite the seeming hectic pace at times, I found L4D relaxing because it’s focused on simple fun rather than serious goals and trust me I suck at FPS’ with controllers but I was doing quite well here.
Recommended!
[tags]Xbox 360,Left 4 Dead[/tags]
Tags: Left 4 Dead, Xbox 360
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Are you sure someone didn’t join your game as Bill? I didn’t think the AI used grenades or molotovs… could be wrong though.
L4D is awesome fun. The achievements are pretty cool as well. I was never a big fan of FPS, but L4D has got me enjoying the genre again. Just wish they would fix the join game/create lobby interface because it’s a pain in the ass.
Recommend trying the versus mode. Its seriously fun.
Hmm… well it could have been my buddy then, though he denied it. Come to think of it, he did have a bit of a snarky giggle about the whole Molotov incident…
It’s an amazingly fun game; I’ll get around to Versus at some point!
“Kill Bill” would have been the more clever title
DAMMIT you’re right, that would have rocked as a title!