Comments on: Review – Left 4 Dead 2

By: Electric Cigarette

Electric Cigarette — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:02:29 +0000

Wonderful details, many thanks towards the author. It is incomprehensible to me now, but in standard, the usefulness and significance is overwhelming. Thanks once again and fine luck!

By: Dragoon

Dragoon — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:29:35 +0000

@Slay
Nicely written review Slay!
I especially liked the screenshots you have taken and that you included info about Mods and further DLC development.

@Roach
Feel free to write you own review and post it here.

FYI this Site is Pro Gamer.
I think you and Valve must understand we are not opposing Steam/Valve, in fact we care for it.
Why would we else bother with it, not give a shit and simply walk away?
We are not their enemies but their customers.
The goal of this site is to improve their services to make a more enjoyably experience for everyone.

http://steamunpowered.eu/about/
This group started out to show people were against the very unbalanced prices that came with the currency change on Steam. Right now this group will focus on exposing all the flaws around the Steam platform in the hope it would eventually lead to improvement.

The group will keep the original name to show how this all started, only our goals have expanded.

By: slay

slay — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:22:53 +0000

you are probably right, joeangry. i removed the confusing sentence as it’s not based on facts.

By: joeangry

joeangry — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:30:57 +0000

“To all boycotters, L4D2 is not L4D1 expansion, it simply just can’t be. There are lots of new dynamics and features that old engine couldn’t handle.”

it’s the good old source engine…

By: joeangry

joeangry — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:25:04 +0000

yep this game is boring and slow as hell, but nice graphics,but it doesn’t make a game at all

By: Gnoupi

Gnoupi — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:52:09 +0000

I guess it depends on everyone’s vision, simply. About me, I love this game, and find it much more intense than the first one, which i loved already. (The only bad point in first episode, for me, was the fact that most events were optimized with camping, it’s no longer the case in L4D2, only 2-3 events are in place, others are to run through.)

Anyway, this review won’t make people change their opinion, and it’s not the goal of it anyway. It’s a pity that the demo is not representative of what makes this second episode so much better, because thanks to that, lot of them will stay in their pond, glad to say “it’sonlyanexpansionmlkdmflgkdmflgk§§§§§§”.

Well, pity for them, game is great, much better than the first, and I’m having a lot of fun in it.

By: Lorsdane

Lorsdane — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:09:36 +0000

‘It has nice features like sunsets, hard rains, storms, raging lightning etc.’ Which is great, same with the new gore. But that doesn’t qualify it as a whole new game. Adding a few new zombies, and some weather is not going to make me spend $50, I could download a few new maps for free for L4D1 and get the same experience.

By: XanderCz

XanderCz — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:58:50 +0000

I gotta agree with stranded. I finished about 95% of all achievements and I havent played it since. ALSO the sunset isnt all that ‘new cool feature’ and the hard rain is just a mix of timers. WATER is the upgraded feature(as they said in the developer commentary). But anyway I bought in the 4-pack so the price was justified in this case I think

By: stranded

stranded — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:46:26 +0000

@Roach this site is not Pro Valve and that is slay’s opinion that it’s not an expansion.

I think in overal that the game is not bad but I have to admit it’s REALLY boring, I played it like 15 hours and I can’t stand it.

By: Darman

Darman — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:20:07 +0000

Sorry, did I miss something? L4D2′s been out a long time..

By: Roach

Roach — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:58:55 +0000

To bad this site is getting more Pro valve with the day.. “is not for expansion” Fuck off IT IS.. you just got a browner nose than yesterday..

By: Gnoupi

Gnoupi — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:30:31 +0000

Note that the demo is far from representing the quality of the game (no idea why such choice from them, then).

They chose the 2 most uninspired levels from the whole game, the most “generic” ones. All the other maps have much more identity, and are much more intense, really. The fire in hotel in the first campaign, most dark carnival scenes, the incredible rain ambiance in Hard Rain…. really much more to see in other maps.

Last point about bots, yes, this is a game to play in multiplayer, bots have strange reactions. The jumping over the ledge to reach you happens, but it’s far from being something supposed the be a “normal use”. In a way, since anyway the game ends when you fall, it’s making it shorter, they suicide, seeing that there is no solution !
But in general, bots are good, they shoot precisely, and do almost no friendly fire (if they do, it’s from explosions, accidents, not from shooting). This is by the way the main reason why they are often “slow” to free you from a hunter, smoker: they won’t shoot if it would damage you. So they will run to you, to push away the infected, but won’t spam their shotgun on you like any player would do, just to avoid friendly fire.