Left 4 Dead

XBOX 360
Graphics Score:
 4
Sound Score:
 6
Control Score:
 10
Story Score:
 10
Fun Score:
 10
Replay Score:
 10
Overall Score
83%

MUCH better than CoD5's "night of the living dead" map(s), this takes killing mindless zombies to the extremes of fun. Before I'd played it, I thought it would be an eerie horror shooter - thank god I was wrong!

The graphics suck. Suck suck suck. If you haven't played this yet, go fire up CS:S. There you go. Throw some zombies and less mind-numbing objectives into CS:S and you've got L4D, albeit better weapon models, maps and enemies. The physics are fun, once again thanks to Source, but still outdated and old. If you couldn't tell, I have no love for the Source engine. Show me Source 2.0 and I'll be more enthused.

The plot is also pretty unique, it's not a level that you're fighting through to survive - it's a movie. I guess that isn't really a plot, more of a theme, but whatever. Still, very unique.

Lastly, the achievements on the 360 rock. They're fun to attempt to earn, promising (potentially) hours of replayability for achievement and stat whores. They're also nothing short of stress relieving, or am I the only one who is calmed when I light 101 zombies on fire? :D

Tag:
Mar 20, 2009 - 6:36pm

Comments

  • Insomniac

    ~Insomniac

    1Z 2 133+ 4 j00

    Nah, flaming undead is a wonderful way to satisfy your inner sadist...I mean Undead Hunter.

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  • spot

    $spot

    Supreme Commander

    I personally do not feel that the graphics suck. In fact I think that if they were any more detailed, the game would be more frustrating, losing the zombies in the endless texture detail (e.g. GoW).

    There is a lot to say about creative mechanics and well developed gameplay. Graphic whoring has hurt the creativity of the industry.

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    "This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure." - Winston Churchill

    • Halcyon

      $Halcyon

      Haly

      Indeed. It seems that devs try to pass off something that has a shitton of eye-candy but lacks any kind of involving storyline or unique (or even interesting or simply FUN) game mechanics as the end-all, be-all of games, when, in fact, stunning graphics are little more than frosting on a styrofoam cake.

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      Haly
      :pirategirl: i haz dice. it r0llz 20. j00 l00ze.

      • spot

        $spot

        Supreme Commander

        Yup, exactly!

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        "This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure." - Winston Churchill

        • Halcyon

          $Halcyon

          Haly

          Oh, I know. Believe me...I know.

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          Haly
          :pirategirl: i haz dice. it r0llz 20. j00 l00ze.

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