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Left 4 Dead | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $34.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 57
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Windows 2000
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 9855
Model: 014633098556
UPC: 014633098556
EAN: 0014633098556
ASIN: B000PS4X7S
Release Date: November 17, 2008 (New: This Week)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Co-operative gameplay in epic struggle between survivors and zombies | | • | Choose to play as survivor or 4 types of infected mutants | | • | Set across 4 massive campaigns | | • | Game creates a unique and dramatic experience based on players' actions | | • | Multiplayer games for 1-to-8 players |
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Set in a modern day survival-horror universe, the co-operative gameplay of iLeft 4 Dead/i (iL4D/i) casts four "Survivors" in an epic struggle against hordes of swarming zombies and terrifying "Boss Infected" mutants. Developed by Turtle Rock Studios and Valve, creators of the iCounter-Strike/i and iHalf-Life/i games, the latest AI technology allows for multiplayer games of one to eight players.p/A new and highly virulent strain of the rabies virus emerges and spreads through the human population with frightening speed. The pandemic's victims become grotesquely disfigured widely violent psychopaths, attacking the uninfected on sight. As one of the "lucky" few apparently immune to the sickness, you, unfortunately, are also trapped in a city crawling with thousands of the bloodthirsty Infected. Alone, you're dead. But together with a handful of fellow survivors, you might just fight your way to safety.p/Players can play as a Survivor or as one of four types of Boss Infected, each of whom possess a unique mutant ability, such as a 50-foot tongue lasso or a giant belly full of explosive methane gas. The gameplay of iL4D/i is set across four massive campaigns. The zombie population of each mission is choreographed by an AI Director that monitors the human players' actions and creates a unique and dramatic experience for them on the fly.p/
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Make sure you to go to the toilet before playing one of the best team games ever November 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Valve got this one right. It is all about team play. With Left 4 Dead you must cooperate with your other three team members or else you will not, cannot make it. The concept is ingenious and you will be adding friends to your list and looking forward to nothing more than filling the zombie hordes full of hot lead with your new mates. Valve completely underestimated how popular this would be. Left 4 Dead is everything that Resident Evil multiplayer wasn't and then some more. Just get the game if you like social gaming and fps. There is nothing like it.br /br /The game itself is quite simple. There are 4 scenarios with 5 levels each. A game takes approx. 45 minutes from start to end. You make your way across each level with your buddies shooting zombies to get to an extraction point. You get a primary weapon, a secondary weapon and health pack. Along the way you can get pipe bombs, molotov cocktails and pain suppressants. You can share items with your teammates. You will always encounter zombies but they could be in any number form 3 or 4 to literally one hundred. There are special monsters along the way like the witch (hear everyone on voice say turn off your flashlight) who goes mental if you disturb her, hunters that jump on you and pin you helplessly unless a friend gets you up, bloomers that explode yucky stuff on you that attracts hordes of zombies directly to you and a smoker that has a tongue that can drag you helplessly along the ground. There is also the tank, a huge zombie monster that takes like most of your ammo to kill. br /br /The thing is once you are helpless a team mate must get you up. If you are all helpless then you die and need to restart the level. Some members get damaged more than others and how the game flows depends largely on how selfish or friendly your team is. I played scenarios where cooperation was rife and we made it through really well. Other scenarios I played with self-interested members and anything can happen from watching them get all the best stuff while everyone else dies to not being able to finish a level, ever. If you can play it where everyone else is on voice then it absolutely rocks.
 The most epic zombie FPS, bar none November 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First off, let me say this game is one of my all time favorite games and will remain to be a top choice for me. What I love about this game is that each time you play a level, don't expect it to be the same experience if you have played the level before, the weapons will spawn in different places, the infected will be in different spots and in different numbers based on how well you do in the map. There is a good balance between the weapon damage and the number of damage an infected will cause to create a challenge and a breeze you can just sail through, if you work together as a team. Another great thing about this game is the AI and the director that goes along with it. The AI survivors actually will help you and not get in your way when shooting zombies, and when you get knocked down, they will help you up. They will also take the time to give you health if you are running low and protect you from getting hit. The environment of the map also give it a nice feel to the whole "zombie apocalypse" scenario and will give you some eye candy when your being overrun with infected raging towards you. You also need to work together as a team in this game. If your the type who likes to run off and go solo you will not make it. Trust me. You must rely on your team to help you out and they must rely on you. This is one of the best zombie games I have ever played and highly recommend it to anyone who likes to fight their way through hundreds of infected zombies.
 Is the SecuRom on this title? November 21, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am not buying any games with SecuRom. Why pay $50 for a game with limited install? If EA is selling installs for a game, then it is fair for me to just pay for one install for $5.
If my wife can enjoy it... it's a GREAT game! November 21, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Usually speaking, if I play Counterstrike my wife sits back and says "this is so boring, I don't know how you enjoy it."br /br /When I first got Left 4 Dead (off of Steam, right through Valve the BEST way to do it!), she watched me play and before long, she was pointing out the smoker, to watch the corner for the hidden zombie, and was shrieking with delight when the 'horde' came after me and the 3 other players. I usually play with a headset, but having her there I turned on the speakers, and she was shouting "Get them, get them!", or "Watch out!", or "Nice hit!".br /br /When my wife can appreciate the game I'm playing, it's a DAMN good game. And not because she appreciates it, but simply because I can play without getting too much flack about it. That said, the game is insanely fun, and it's different with every group you play with so just get in there and HAVE FUN! New levels seem to be cropping up by the players, so it should be replayable for some time, and given the setup, I can see long term single maps come up too, in the same realm as "use map settings" maps from Starcraft, that eventually spawned Tower Defense and others.br /br /Get this one folks, it's a blast to play, make sure you have a microphone and KILL THE HORDE!
Fun to play, Multiplayer only, not enough maps November 21, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is fun to play, not really a story but that's a good thing as we've all seen the movies and played the other games and know the story anyways, why waste our time rehashing it? br /br /The graphics are pretty good as well, with Valves strengths for me being the environments and the movement of the characters, especially the zombies. It's really fun not knowing where the next rush of zombies is going to come from and just picking off the ones that are aimless. It's a blast to see them all running at you in huge numbers and just blasting away. The details in the environment are well done also like scrawlings on the wall from previous survivors and the details of a hospital or house interior. The sound is also pretty good, with the zombies making different sounds and the witches crying. The weapons sound pretty realistic as well. Your AI teammates have a variety of things to say that make sense based on the situation, they yell at you if you accidentally shoot them and call out where the zombies are coming from.br /br /One of the things that was nice was there was no real directions given, no map, nothing other than if you wander the wrong way you'll eventually hit a dead end and then have to explore until you find your way. When you get close to an important point it does a good job of letting you know you are there and what you need to do.br /br /The things I didn't like were the lack of more than 4-5 standard weapons, a flamethrower, bat or other option would be nice. Granted it does give you the major type of weapons but I'd like to see more powerful and different ones. Also the bots can get in the way at times and lag behind you too much. I didn't have a problem with the save system but if you were playing with others it could be a problem, essentially you can't save wherever you want it has to be at a safe house. br /br / Another bad thing was that I don't play co-op online and this is what this game is for really. I want to stay a casual gamer and going online really is a time consuming thing as well as some of the people can be obnoxious. I've played through all of the 4 maps on single player and am interested in playing them again but it's just not enough to really pay full price for. br /br /So make sure you are willing and able to play co-op if you get this game, otherwise it is not worth it. I think the plan is probably to come up with new maps and sell them online through Steam or have the modders generate them because even with multiplayer I could see this being too small an area to keep coming back to again and again.
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