Left 4 Dead prequel in the works - Report

Glad I held back on getting games, L4D2 is gonna be dirt cheap now, will still buy it new though because this company is one of the few companies left that I can respect.

left 4 dead was cool good to get it out  now and again and play through a campaign. just did not like idiots online that just look to kick people all the time.

I couldn't  get into L4D. Too repetative for me. Although I  have a friend who doesn't like shooters but he likes L4D. It's probably more the zombies than anything else. He is a huuuuuuuuge zombie fan.

Valve should make a sequel but its been years since the last L4D

Left 4 Dead 2 was NOT published by EA. I'm just saying.

This is already confirmed as false, please update your story. Valve announced they arent working on a left 4 dead prequel, but they are working together.

The only way people will play this next game for as long as they played L4D 1 and 2 is if they continue to allow user-generated content. That is what kept t the first and second one going for as long as it did.. 

L4D2 was good for a little while, but quickly went bargin bin, very cheap. Now it's not even being produced anymore. I think this franchise is pretty stale. It's going to take a bold move to get people to pay full price for the next one.

this sounds great i really love both left 4 dead games but i prefer left 4 dead 1 over 2. i also have played payday, its good but not as good as left 4 dead no way near. the idea of payday was good but the team ai was really bad they never picked me up if i went down and if they had ammo bag or medic bag they never dropped them, but payday online is much better as it removes the rubish ai and that makes the game feel so much better. so the only things i ask for this is;

1. please let us have left 4 dead 1 survivors back ( i hear this game is a prequal to left 4 dead 1 so bill will live again)

2. overkill please oh god oh god make sure the ai is a lot better in this game

3. valve dont let overkill ruin this game series

4. be more left 4 dead then payday

5. if its a cross over dont do anything stupid like cops and zombie robbers or robbers and zombie police

@MUKUSS If you're looking for those things, you'll want to play a different game. Needing to rely on teammates and feeling so helpless and afraid of specials is what makes Left 4 Dead fun, interesting, and unique. Breaking free of infected would just make the player feel like a tank, and there's plenty of games that will do that.

I am a little disappointed that they used a beta screenshot from L4D2 though. Why? The game's been out for a long time, there's no reason to use an old, dumpy screenshot with pre-release polish.

Well I hope they add in a way where the players can break free when a smoker,hunter,witch & others holds you down...it sucks waiting for someone to come and free you up...plus be able to hold more stuff in our inventory like extra pipe-bombs ect...

I love L4D but naturally it has no story, so the idea of a story based L4D intrigues me. I just hope it's not more of the same...L4D 1&2 were great, but now I'm looking for something new in the formula

Definitely interested! :)

I like Left 4 Dead, but I prefer Half-Life a little more.

well we already know how left 4 dead came to be now.... its because of bath salts!!!

As long as it provides the same multiplayer adrenaline rush as L4D 1&2 im in.

Another excuse not to work on Half Life 3 lol

I wondered how the outbreak started, and wondered if you would ever fix it, or erradicate all of the zombies, but truth be told, once you start shooting them, you start to not really care anymore.  It then just becomes a matter of survival.  I kinda like that your characters don't really know what is going on, and that they just want to get the heck out of there.  There really is no need to expound on why there are zombies everywhere, just shoot em in the face and be done with it.

well its about time they announced another left 4 dead game

They can keep making these forever and I will keep buying them.  

YES!

I grow tired of this franchise, hope they bring something new to the table...

...sooo the e-comic they released turned video game?

Sweet!! Left 4 Dead is one of my favorite series and I have always wanted to know the back story on the outbreak.

After Dead Island, Left for Dead was exposed as the shallow, linear, boring game is always was.  

Sounds like it could be fun. Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 claimed hundreds of hours of my life, according to my steam stats. They were addictive and fun, but the games got stale as the community thinned out. Hopefully another entry in the series will bring a surge of people back into the games, bringing back my excitement to play.

kewl hope its not the cliche biological laboratory outbreak

Left 4 Dead 1 will be included in the pack?

left 4 dead is a borefest

I'm wondering if it plays the same as the others or is just Payday set in L4D land. Could be interesting, could be crap

being made by the team behind Payday.....sorry, Left 4 Dead or not I'll pass. Payday sucked, way overhyped and totally not worth the price of admission, I'll wait for Valve to do a proper sequel......or for the next Half life be it the next game or Episode 3.......

how can there be a prequel to a game that had no story? i dont understand

Finally. 3 years has been too long....

Does this remind any one of you about this song which starts something like this "...one step forward two steps back" ;)

Ooh that's nice valve we hate N3 also soo let's make Half life 4 and left for dead 4, NVM hope This prequel will be hard and more creepy than 2nd, then 1st game.

Yep...this nails it...Valve doesn't like '3'.

How about the god-damn DLC for Payday before you work on anoter IP or a friggin SEQUEL!

...not worth the weight.

Valve: One......Two.......uhhhh.........

Gamers: Three!

Valve: Okay.....One.....Two...........Prequel! 

Here's an idea Overkill, how about that Payday DLC you promised me when I purchased it last year, ya know, instead of making new games and a sequal. You advertised DLC for the first payday in the f**** demo, and it hasn't materialised. You will p*ss off your fanbase, don't do it.