Left 4 Dead 2 Screenshots: Mudmen and Spitters

I think this is great. Left 4 Dead 2 has all the makings of a great sequel. It's Left 4 Dead 1 in overdrive, with way more replay value and all of the repetitiveness gone.

Yes, it's a shame that Left 4 Dead 1 didn't get the TF2 treatment...but I think this game's awesome will make up for it.

I expect to play this three or four times as much as the last game (80 hours for me).

i really think they should let us create our own people to play with in game. that would be great. and you get points after the end of each act that you can spend toward updating your characters cloths, and stuff like that.

all the people in the poster look modeled off actors, from left to right casey affleck, michael clark duncan, halle berry and john cusack. am I the only one who sees this?

I can't wait to preorder the four-pack.

THe spitter looks fucking scary.

Instant purchase. The characters are kind of weak though. I can't relate to any of them. No hot chick , no subtle comedy and they all just seem like douchebags.

GRENADE LAUNCHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if that dead parachute guy is a nod towards World War Z.

I think this is the first batch of screenshots I've seen which look as good as Left for Dead 1.
The vast majority of screenshots I've seen actually, genuinely look worse than L4D1, it looks like a poor mod (and some of these shots look like that too)

There's something totally unbelievable about the characters also, I would have far preferred the original ones. The original game actually had a backstory kind of written in with each chapter merging in to the next one, however playtesters didn't like the fact that they 'lost' at the end of each scenario after escaping (helicopter crashing, boat landing at another place with more zombies, etc) Personally I think the playtesters are idiots and integrating the 4 campaigns in to a single 'story' would have been fantastic.
(Just make the helicopter crash at the start of campaign 2, instead of the end of campaign 1, then people still feel like they 'won' without getting cheated of the reward)


I won't harp on the 'this shit should've been in Left for Dead 1' stuff, a heap of people agree and a heap of people don't agree and it gets us no where.
I will say that I don't care if this content was added or not to Left for Dead 1, I really don't - what I do get pissed off about is that the audience for this game is now going to be seggregated, that's what pisses me off.
Mod authors no doubt have slowed or stopped work to target L4D2 and we're now going to see people owning 1 version or both.
This has seggregated the userbase and that's my concern, that bothers me far more than the money for the sequel or the value for money for the first.
As I have said before, I think this is one of the most amazing co-op experiences I've ever ever had and it had a vast potential which seems to be ignored, I think over time the mods which would have come out would've been incredible and I now wonder if such mods and support will exist for the game.

Either way, these shots, just manage to impress which is a look in the right direction, considering the vast majority of the previous ones really honestly do look worse in my opinion.

I remember Epic refunding back $10 off of UT2004 if you had bought UT2003 the year before as it was more what UT2003 should have been. UT2k4 cost $40 at the time, so 25% off, and I did recieve a check in the mail a bit later, so no scam. I thought that was great, and it definitely helped in both the loyalty factor, as well as not feeling ripped off for back to back releases of very similar games with a decent amount of overlap, but still with a lot of new content. With Valve not doing the same thing, it's makes me feel that what they can get away with, they will try to.

I bought L4D 1 at full price, without mod support and a very limited selection of weapons. UT2k3 came out with immediate mod support, more weapons, characters, etc. I'm making this comparison because of how Epic and Valve chose different "solutions," and how I view each of them based on their decisions. Their sequels are both what the original should have been, not many people will argue otherwise. L4D 1 was much shorter on the content level though, its sequel making the jump to what it should have been, and not providing a discout to those who got the previous game, yet both UT2k4 and L4D2 both released within a year of its predecessor. I won't be a week 1 buyer of L4D2, and it will need to prove itself for a while that it has Valve's full backing long term like TF2, and that they won't be working on L4D3 before L4D2 is out the door, otherwise any future features they promise or mention will be meaningless without any manpower behind it.

Okay, now that I've seen the Swamp Fever poster, I'm REALLY excited.

The Suit looks like John Cusack. All they need to do is have ghetto blaster as a special weapon and a zombie that wants it's two dollars.

The white guy on the left looks a bit like the kid from Night of the Living Dead remake, the black guy has a vauge resemblence to Ken Foree (of Dawn of The Dead and Devils Rejects fame), the black girl looks..boring, and the white guy on the right looks like Kevin Spacey dressed as Tony Montana.

Where is my generic chinese man/woman? This game is racist!

None of the pics are loading for me.. I have no idea what's going on I can only see the thumbnails on the story. I MUST see the spitter and these "mudmen" variants.

Haha, no, not falling for that one again. I think I'll save my purchase money for l4d3.

Is the Spitter supposed to be pregnant?

did the chick always have that depeche mode shirt or was that a recent addition?

New mode speculation?

I genuinely think it's going to be a rehash (Poor choice of word, perhaps) of survival, more akin to the zombie mode in CoD5.

Although I quite like survival, I think they missed the boat with it a bit and am expecting a mix between survival and the zombie maps from CoD5 and it be a defensive sort of thing.

Some videos from comic com, now -

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=158408

I am totally, totally drooling for this game - and in classic Zombie fashion (of course), spitting out a few teeth, dropping flecks of pus-permeated drool and bloody spittle. Yay!