Left 4 Dead Release Date, Previews and Gameplay Videos

[DigiQ8]

Gametrailers.com has an interview with Mike Booth and revealed that November 4th is the release date for Valve's Zombie game Left 4 Dead. You can watch the interview here.[br]

Also Gametrailers has 5 gameplay videos which shows enhanced HUD and better visual effects such as film grain, shifts in color palette, and blood spatter

• Street Survival Gameplay Video
• Tongue Torture Gameplay Video
• Subway Salvation Gameplay Video
• Scale and Survive Gameplay Video
• Painkillers Gameplay Video

In other news, both 1UP and Kotaku posted their impressions:

1UP:[br]The new feature we saw this time around is the overall art polish. The HUD seems the same, but notifications (such as friendly fire warnings and revivals) are now more prominent. Visual effects such as film grain, shifts in color palette, and blood spatter have been added to give more of that "relentless zombie movie" vibe to the game. The combination of blur filters plus the black-and-white tint when you're knocked down (your health has been drained, and you're down on the ground, pistols blazing, until another player rescues you) adds a nice measure of visceral impact.

Kotaku:
[br]There are some nice touches scattered throughout that make Left 4 Dead stand out and these pop-up warnings come into play elsewhere. For example, in one area, you are warned that zombies don't like car alarms. In fact, they become enraged when they hear them. Unfortunately, it's sometimes hard to avoid hitting an alarmed car and rage sets in. You'll also see pop-ups that essentially say "Pull this level and expect mass hysteria." It's funnier when Valve does it.

You can read 1UP preview here or Kotaku's here. Remember mark you calenders Left 4 Dead is coming November 4th on both PC and XBox 360.

 

[Naph]

I cannot wait for the release in

Novermber... What?

 

[DigiQ8]

What?

 

[Naph]

What?

Playing the angel are we? :angel:

 

[Lucid]

Release date? Hah.
I'll take it with half a grain of salt.

Also, is it just me or does the player take a crazy amount of damage before going down from a horde of zombies? :|...

 

[DigiQ8]

playing The Angel Are We? :angel:

<3 <3

 

[Reginald]

Hmm... I reckon they were on quite a low difficulty setting on that first video there. They seemed to shoot the zombies once to take them down and take a hell of a lot of damage themselves.

And they'll have to fix the zombie's hands coming through the safe house doors at the end...

EDIT: Ditto with the second video. Also a fair few clipping issues.

 

[Xendance]

November 4th... it will be like waiting for the Orange Box all over again Oh well, at least's its coming.

 

[Sheepo]

Looks increasingly great with every video, but I have to agree, it seems like it takes quite a lot to hurt to these folks.

 

[Winning22]

November.. aww man! i was lookin forward to playing this game in August!

 

[knut]

The game looks a lot better now than it has done before. All these changes and tweaks are much more appealing, I'm glad it's taking its time coming out.

Looking forward to it.

 

[leib10]

The voice-acting sounds... subpar by Valve's standards. :/

 

[Beerdude26]

I liked the taunts and screams, tbh.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

"Ohh, quit shootin' me!"

classic

 

[Sheepo]

I rather liked Zoey's near death babble.

 

[Lucid]

It looks like it might've been made a little simpler for consoles.

Didn't there used to be locational damage and better gore?
Now it's basically just unload into their bodies until they die.

 

[Druckles]

Happy belated birthday to Gabe.