New Valve Game - Left 4 Dead

[Reginald]

OK, first, a disclaimer. I am going to post this in 2 or 3 places so that it gets attention. Don't flame me. Bastards.

Remember when Iced_Eagle said he played a new game when he went to visit Valve? A game that would blow our socks off?
Well, PCGamer UK has an exclusive on it.

It's a multiplayer co-op, survival horror made by Valve and Turtle Rock, involving 4 people with weapons vs. zombies. It's worryingly similar to Zombie Master in the way it works.
It's made by Michael Booth, the person who created the bots for CS:S and CS:CZ.

I'll pick out a few key phrases from the article.

• Inspired by 28 Days Later and the premise of putting knives into the hands of CS bots
• Four players, "The Survivors," face off against "The Infected," mostly AI controlled zombies, although it is also possible to play as a zombie.
• Regular zombies, but also mutated varieties such as poisonous vomit-spewing Slither-esuqe zombies, fat mega-lumpy zombies, muscle bound zombies etc.
• Zombies are FAST
• Procedural animation mixed with ragdoll animation (Example used, a zombie throws a survivor who then gets hit by a car)
• Requires teamwork
• One type of zombie, called Smoker, has a hugely long tongue and acts in a similar way to a barnacle in HL
• Automatic voice macros. For example, if you see an enemy and your buddy hasn't, you will automatically yell "Look Out!"
• Sheer amount of enemies is the problem, not the strength of them
• Possible to fight from the ground when zombies have taken you down
• Possible to play on your own vs all AI

I couldn't find this posted anywhere yet so I assume PCGUK has the exclusive. :E

I am not currently in the process of scanning the magazine, hence you will not be able to PM me for the scans I will not be making.

 

[comoxer]

Sounds fun, but could you not just do this yourself by running a map in HL2 and spawing a load of zombies? forgive my naivety theres probably loads of other features implemented :E

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Comoxer, I think its your average zombie, not headcrab zombie...at least that was the impression I got.

 

[SimonomiS]

Just merge all these threads, what makes this require special post-in-all-forums attention?

 

[Evo]

Cause it is so awesome

 

[Reginald]

Duh.

 

[panda_rage]

how.. erm, original?

 

[Inyssius Grey]

I like the idea, but hasn't this been done before? Several times?