Not only has the A.I. Director set a new watermark for video games, you can play as the Zombies too!

User Rating: 9.5 | Left 4 Dead PC
By onimushu | Review Date:
I played the demo on Normal and started feeling like Valve didn't quite nail it. Then I played the demo on Expert and realized how sinister the A.I. Director can be. Then I played the actual game's two extra levels and got that feeling you get when a video game actually serves its purpose -- pure excitement. So, so far L4D is an exhilarating game. It's only been out for a few days, so I'm not going to rush to give L4D my highest honors (however meaningless that may be coming from an amateur reviewer). Valve's prior commitments to Team Fortress 2 and CS:S should provide an inkling of the level of content support we should expect for L4D.

All of this is great, of course - the anticipated support, great A.I., fun (albeit few) levels - but what really has me laughing like a silly little girl is the Versus mode. Being able to play as the "bad guys" taps into my inner devil and reveling in the fact that I'm purposefully ruining someone else's day brings me great, twisted satisfaction. As my friend phrased it during one of our rounds as the Zombies, "it's like were making a good Zombie movie because, this time, the bad guys actually win [overbearing laughter]." That was right after my Smoker snared a helpless human character who had been covered in my friend's Boomer vomit, attracting a Zombie horde as I strangled him against a barbed-wire fence.

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