Left 4 Dead 2 at PAX - The Jockey

[Evo]

The new Boss infected known as The Jockey has been unveiled at the Penny Arcade Expo over in Washington. Digi revealed some information about him earlier this week but this is the first time we have seen him in the flesh![br]<div align="center"></div></br></br>In a new preview on Kotaku this is what they said about the new boss:

This new special zombie announces its presence with a tell-tale snicker before it leaps on a victim's back. It rode Rochelle away from allies, thwacking her with a free hand as it went. The player can try to steer in a better direction, but can't outright resist where the Jockey drives them.

 

[BlueWolf72]

Im so killin this thing with a smile

 

[hool10]

Im so killin this thing with a smile

A smile like this?

The article is pretty cool and you get special pre-order items:

In keeping with recent retail trends, Valve noted that some of those new items are "being offered as a pre-sell exclusive with select retailers" and listed the "electric guitar, machete, and the American baseball bat" as examples

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/60335

 

[John1986]

look's very nice when i thought jockey i thought it would be small sure this thing will be very painfull when it get's on you becasue it look's huge

 

[deer]

A smile like this?

The article is pretty cool and you get special pre-order items:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/60335

Loads scarier ... :sniper:

 

[Marler]

this special infected is gonna be so awesome to fight!

 

[knut]

Looks cool.

Also interesting:

Also new — newest of all, perhaps — was the Charger, revised since E3 2009 when this whole sequel debuted. This special zombie no longer barrels through the players' group before grabbing one of them. It now rushes in and grabs a human player immediately, smashing them all the way toward whatever wall or other vertical heap is the terminus of their headlong rush.

This was news to me as well. EDIT: Not the Charger himself, but the plowing them into a wall or the like.

 

[tschumann]

look's very nice when i thought jockey i thought it would be small sure this thing will be very painfull when it get's on you becasue it look's huge

Yeah, I thought the jockey would be smaller.

 

[Kirkburn]

Yeah, I thought the jockey would be smaller.

You were totally expecting this:

 

[John1986]

You were totally expecting this:

in a way i was because i thought it would be a smaller size since this thing now look's like you couldn't take one step without collapsing into a heap onto the ground

 

[scotland1]

I shat a brick.

 

[DigiQ8]

Looking good!

 

[Born]

Damn, L4D2 is really starting to get going now.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Looks a bit cartoony imo.

 

[Sulkdodds]

It looks like something out of a Timesplitters game. Which is cool. It's the texture of it, I think.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

I'm making a writeup of the three days of PAX right now, actually!

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Sulk nailed exactly what I meant. Reminds me of the mutants from the Ugenics level in Future Perfect and even the Splitters themselves sorta.

 

[swan_song1973]

A smile like this?

The article is pretty cool and you get special pre-order items:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/60335

lmfao.

honestly though, the jockey just made this game awesome for me.

 

[DoctorWeeTodd]

It's a little too cute for my usual taste, but it's cool.

 

[Zephos]

It's a little too cute for my usual taste, but it's cool.

I'd have to disagree in that it's appearance looks the most diabolical of all the special infected.

 

[the cow says moo]

Isn't this the last of the new special infected?