Do you love zombies and good co-op games? Are you playing the Left 4 Dead demo for far longer than any single human being ought to? Do you find yourself counting the minutes until Valve unleashes the zombie masses upon the world?
Chances are high that if you answered yes to all three questions, especially that last one, you have already pre-ordered Left 4 Dead; if you fall under this category, just keep on walkin'.
For everyone else, here's the situation: if you pre-purchase L4D on Steam, you save 10% and can pre-load the game for play at 12:01 a.m. EST on November 18. Oh joy!
Similarly, you could always get the Valve Complete Pack which comes with all sorts of goodies, including L4D. If you happen to have a spare Franklin laying around, go check it out.
How's the game performing on your hype-o-meter?
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11:53 PM on 11.13.2008
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Also, FUCK TANKS. Fuck them to hell. Followed by the Witches at a distant second.
It is cool that we can pre-load the game up, I never knew that.
I'd trade L4D in for a teaser trailer of HL2E3 anytime.
But honestly, what I find weird is not the time, but that fact that this offer is crap. It's only $5, and I guarantee that I can find it for less than that. If fact, I already have, I can get it for under $40 without batting an eyelid.
You don't know the half of it - in the UK it costs £33 over Steam and you can buy it from Amazon for 319.99.
But I'm all about the preloading this time around. And fuck smokers who grab and drag you off the minigun and across the entire room during the standoff.
Kudos!
yeah zombies are fast but they seem to die at the drop of a hat ,what ever happened to removing the head and destroying the brain? now its 2 shots to the chest and there dead?. i cant tell if there are multiple ways to finish a level or is it all a set path? dark closets of no interest.
Probably won't be preordering since I have more than enough to play at the moment, but it's definitely on my radar.
I CAN'T WAIT! I'M GETTING THIS FOR 360 AND PC! I WANT IT NOW!
IF YOU DON'T GET THIS YOU'RE RETARDED! NO QUESTIONS ASKED!
Also, I love how I automatically pace myself with the game, saving myself from overplaying it and thereby complaining for picky reasons about an awesome game.
2 hours of L4D and my brain screams "NO MORE ANGRY UNDEAD PLEASE, THANKS" and I retreat to a book, and cover myself in blankets.
Nice call on the "Burn the Witch" reference!
Two hours ago: didn't care about L4D. Now: preloading.
Ahh Valve, does anything you touch turn into gaming gold?
Other than that, yeah, I'm pre-loading as I type this. The demo was great, and I'd be playing it right now. But school, studying, etc. keep me from that. After 3pm today though, I will be playing the demo a lot.
@Russ: Oh yes, mapping should be pretty easy they said. You don't have to worry about spawning anything, the game will do it for you. I think you just build the place, maybe designate safe-zones and ammo depots (although I think the game may take of that too), and the game does the zombies and everything else. I look forward to some of the maps people come up with. I think it'd be terrifying to have the game in a school on fire or a prison. Close-quarters zombie blasting for the win.
They're not technically zombies. They're "infected." They've been infected with and mutated by a strain of the rabies virus. They're only zombies in the broad sense.