G4 Preview Left 4 Dead Survival Mode

[DigiQ8]

G4 Staff had their hands on with the new Left 4 Dead DLC "Survival Pack". They offer up around 35 minute of gameplay footage.

Survival mode takes all of the areas, 15 in all, from the original Left 4 Dead maps where you call the horde, like at the elevator in No Mercy and at the crane in Dead Air. There?s also the brand new lighthouse themed, ?The Last Stand? with the apt tagline ?it doesn?t end well?, because, despite being the level loaded with pills, explosives, ammo and health?well, good luck lasting long enough to use any of them. There?s no rescue in sight for Survival mode, just a never-ending flow of zombies and the crushing feeling of impending doom (or a tank beating you into the pavement). Apparently, the team at Valve hasn?t surpassed the 10 minute mark, and our fairly skilled crew topped out at a little over four minutes in Death Toll?s drains, earning a bronze and falling nearly three minutes short of a silver ranking. For comparison, my first lighthouse run relying solely on AI lasted a whopping two minutes and forty-one seconds. That?s longer than some of my attempts with human players, but don?t expect to set any records with the AI in tow.

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[Jintor]

Holy shit.

 

[DarkDamo]

Get a good team and I think you could easily get to 6 minutes. Watching them play, and play on the xbox was bad.

 

[monkeyclass]

This is better than X-mas!!!

 

[Reflex]

I liked the ending of the second one.

 

[Mutley]

Looks good... but that clock is massive, kinda ruins the immersion.

 

[hool10]

I can't wait!

 

[knut]

Looks good... but that clock is massive, kinda ruins the immersion.

What, being able to see your team mates/Infected players through walls or when they are taking damage doesn't?

Lookin' good! Can't wait til Tuesday.

 

[Kadayi]

Sweet

 

[nipples]

I came.

 

[gFrohman]

Omg - awesomeness.

 

[Reginald]

Hyped for this, completely forgot the other two campaigns would be made versus-ified.

 

[MJ12]

Valve continues to show why it is better than all game companies.

 

[mchammer75040]

Yea I'm excited about the versus more than anything...I've rarely even played the other 2 campaigns cause it feels like only half the game when you're going against the AI.

 

[Warped]

anyone got videos on the Survival mode??

 

[Sledgehammer]

anyone got videos on the Survival mode??

There's a long one in this, I also believe that the IGN preview had some videos from it (including the only video released from another map than the lighthouse map, the Van crescendo in Dead Air).

 

[Rizzo]

I actually think it sound pretty crap. Don't know, I never really liked the horde. Just mele spam. It much more intense walking a silent level picking of some zombies, and then beeing ambushed by a tank or something. I know the tank will be there and sure I had some fun with L4D, but overall im somewhat dissapointed in it.

 

[nipples]

Except you can't just melee spam.

 

[Inanimate]

When will the survivalpack be unlocked on Steam? I live in Sweden and I want to think that HL2 was released @ 12.00 during the day at least.

 

[Qhartb]

Looks good... but that clock is massive, kinda ruins the immersion.

It might be smaller on the PC version. Textual UI elements tend to be big on consoles so they're readable on standard-def televisions.