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Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Now Publicly Available

by Chris Faylor, Nov 03, 2009 2:16pm PST

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Following a week of pre-order exclusivity, the Left 4 Dead 2 PC demo is now available to all via Steam, with the Xbox 360 demo now open to Xbox Live Gold members.

The downloadable sample of Valve's cooperative zombie shooter packs two levels from the New Orleans-set "Parish" campaign, which can be played by up to four online or LAN participants. The Xbox 360 demo also includes two-person split-screen.

Left 4 Dead 2 rolls out on PC and Xbox 360 worldwide come the week of November 17. The Xbox 360 demo opens up to all Xbox Live members next Tuesday, November 10.

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Enjoy this while it lasts, because if L4D1 is anything to go by, Valve will remove any trace of the demo after the game gets released.

Nov 03, 2009 3:33pm PST

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Enjoy this while it lasts, because if L4D1 is anything to go by, Valve will remove any trace of the demo ... : ymgve
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I hate the TF2-like cartoony look. Even the characters are similar. Well, the fat black guy == TF2's heavy anyway.

Whoever thought of mixing horror/zombies/blood/etc. with cartoony needs to explain to me their reasoning.

The game feels very much like L4D1, except with more different weapons. Everything else is pretty much identical.

Nov 04, 2009 3:29pm PST

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I hate the TF2-like cartoony look. Even the characters are similar. Well, the fat black guy == TF2's heav... : shurcool
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- thank god someone else noticed it... i couldn't agree more... the zombies and setting look ok... but t... : x Tempest x

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I played through it, and despite giving Valve the benefit of the doubt when L4D2 was announced, I still feel that this isn't much of an improvement. I never found the melee weapons to be that effective, and the hit detection is really spotty with them. The setting, characters and music is great and really captures the mood, but that doesn't make a new game. The game still plays the same, I really didn't feel like I was doing anything different or how radical the changes may be.

Hopefully the full game has surprises and new ideas in store, because this was exactly like booting up the L4D demo up last year at this time.

Nov 03, 2009 3:15pm PST

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I played through it, and despite giving Valve the benefit of the doubt when L4D2 was announced, I still f... : manlyman
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Is it just me or...meh?

Nov 03, 2009 4:53pm PST

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Is it just me or...meh? : unholydonuts
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just played it and totally hated it, im glad that i didnt pre-order it, it feels like some cheap l4d mod

Nov 04, 2009 11:15am PST

just played it and totally hated it, im glad that i didnt pre-order it, it feels like some cheap l4d mod : hanged_man

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To hell with all of, I love the new music.

Nov 04, 2009 10:08am PST

To hell with all of, I love the new music. : Skillmore

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Does the demo not have the randomized map routes and weather effects? I ran thru it a few times and it was exactly the same except for the types of weapons, but even the supply points were in the exact same locations.

Nov 04, 2009 3:34am PST

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Does the demo not have the randomized map routes and weather effects? I ran thru it a few times and it wa... : Evan_C
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  - I just thought I couldn't remember which way to go. I'll have to look at this again. : goshzilla
- i've seen only one example of a different layout, and that was a minor detour, but absolutely no changes ... : inchwide

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Got the Demo. That intro Cinematic is BOSS.

I must really suck at this type of game play, it's hard as hell. Maybe I'll practice with the demo a bit more, before I make a real decision.

Nov 04, 2009 2:19am PST

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seems like the demo has inspired a pretty polar reaction. perhaps the majority of the changes and improvement for the game will come in multiplayer. in any case, it appears that most people dont dislike it as much as they dislike the idea of paying full game price for what they feel is an addon. thats a fair sentiment. ill have to give the demo a shot so i can gripe about how lame valve has been lame on my wallet about this series. op4 wasn't even full game price, and that had significant gameplay change and a fun singeplayer campaign. seems like valve is just charging full game price because... they can. hard to fault them for it, itd be silly to be mad at a company for trying to make money as best they can.

Nov 04, 2009 6:28am PST

seems like the demo has inspired a pretty polar reaction. perhaps the majority of the changes and improve... : shaq_mobile

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So basically they fixed a few things up and made left 4 dead 2 what left 4 dead 1 should have been. Actually, the outdoor setting is a step back from the 1st l4d. Outside and bright sunlight doesn't make for a very scary zombie experience.

Not going to buy it. This is basically a cash grab by valve.

Nov 04, 2009 6:24am PST

So basically they fixed a few things up and made left 4 dead 2 what left 4 dead 1 should have been. Actu... : Mister Fister

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Oh yes! I didn't follow news on this too closely and I didn't knew there'd be a public demo! woohoo! Time to see how good/bad it runs on my config!

Nov 04, 2009 4:22am PST

Oh yes! I didn't follow news on this too closely and I didn't knew there'd be a public demo! woohoo! Time... : melt_core

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Just stick the demo on expert setting and draw it out a bit. So much more fun than a 10 min experience.

Nov 04, 2009 12:46am PST

Just stick the demo on expert setting and draw it out a bit. So much more fun than a 10 min experience. : motlhawkeye

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I tried it this morning. Not good enough.

Nov 04, 2009 12:27am PST

I tried it this morning. Not good enough. : anal justice

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I'm kinda meh on the whole thing, I dl'd it, but I havent even fired it up yet.

Maybe I'll just wait till they have their free weekend + 1/2 off time in a month.
Of course, I may enjoy it more if my microphone didn't have weird electrical interference on it. I've YET to figure that out.

Nov 03, 2009 9:28pm PST

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I'm kinda meh on the whole thing, I dl'd it, but I havent even fired it up yet. Maybe I'll just wait t... : vertdang
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- Maybe try it first and then decide? : Tripps

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http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

Its going to explode!

Nov 03, 2009 2:54pm PST

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http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/ Its going to explode! : nisolider
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- no it hasn't. : Unkei

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just like playing part 1 haha mehhh

Nov 03, 2009 8:10pm PST

just like playing part 1 haha mehhh : virtualsinner

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I love it :)

Nov 03, 2009 5:42pm PST

I love it :) : Milleh

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i've reinstalled this over 5 times and haven't been able to get it to work.. the game just quits to desktop with no error when the map is finished loading. :(

Nov 03, 2009 5:01pm PST

i've reinstalled this over 5 times and haven't been able to get it to work.. the game just quits to deskt... : the_algor

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I may be retarded but its worth pointing out to any valve people reading loading up steam and fiddling with it for a few minutes I still don't see how to actually download the demo.

Nov 03, 2009 2:50pm PST

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Steam servers, prepare to suffer!!

Nov 03, 2009 2:21pm PST

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- They have been all day, for me at least. Dragon Age is taking 8 hours to download. : kahoona1
- 1.8MB/sec from the UK servers. Not too shabby :p : Beady

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fuck man. too many games yet I'm itching to try this out.

Nov 03, 2009 2:21pm PST

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fuck man. too many games yet I'm itching to try this out. : malloc
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- It's pretty short. Definitely give it a shot. : sevogajre

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