Valve's latest: Left 4 Dead

[Asher]

Major stuff was probably locked down months ago...

[Krill]

Depends how long the game has been in developement. The longer the development, yeah, the mopre likely it is that major stuff was locked down months ago, but if it's only been in development 2 years then they could still be finishing stuff off now.

[Zero]

its looks interesting enough. Its been on my list of "might wanna try" games.

Im guessing the game is gonna play alot like alien swarm. Except its gonna be First person view and on CS:S engine. Probably not as hard and fast paced either, but more focus on atmosphere and cool features you can do. for instance you can get knocked down by a zombie and you will be incapacitated for awhile. During that time zombies can swarm over you and you can use your handgun to fend them off.


Unfortunately, the only reliance ur gonna have to do with each other is them covering your six. there is no class/specialty among your surviving team. That's what made alien swarm fun and it would be nice if they took that and expanded it more... with each players bringing unique benefits to the team trying to survive. The drawback to that is when key players like technician died in AS it was quite frustrating, because some levels counted on them to hack through doors. And some classes like medic were deemed useless at higher level (who needs heal when your gonna die so fast?) Regardless, I liked the idea that you had options to do stuff in certain levels only when you had technicians which made playing fun.

If only Alien swarm source would be ever released it would be great but that game is another duke nukem forever.... SO.... This will do nicely to replace that.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Krill
It ought to have slightly lass than 3 months of actual developement,

Believe me, a lass can develop quite a bit in three months...

[kittenOFchaos]

There are not many games that I am excited about, this is one of them. Can't wait.