Friday, May 18, 2012

Game review: Left 4 Dead 2 (PC)




This game is not so old, it's from 2010, so it appears on PC and Xbox 360, like its predecessor its first person coop shooter, and it's very entertaining. Great pandemic has spread all over the world, and turns people into zombies. Military has created safe zones all over the America, in attempt to rescue as many civilians as possible, and that's where you step in. Directly into shoes of one of the survivors and together with your friends you try to blast your way through tons of zombies, monsters and witches (yes witches). There are many scenarios available for you to play, and together those scenarios create linear storyline, telling us how those survivors are trying to escape. You can play alone, with computer controlled buddies, which is not so fun, because they are programmed and mostly follow you and are very boring companions. Best solution is to play with your friends coop, or online, that's where fun starts. Hours and hours of entertainment, shooting, burning, detonating, smacking zombies. Weapon arsenal is colorful one, from standard, machine guns, pistols, and bombs, to really not so common, like guitars (yeah smack that zombie's ass with a guitar), crowbars, katana blades etc. Also if you got your ass kicked, your buddies can revive you, even bring you back from the dead with a defibrillator, heal you and everything, so having good team of people when playing online is nice. Because sometimes when I play some people are running around, not caring to cooperate or whatever is needed to do on certain level, and that sucks and ruins a game-play. Speaking of game-play, it is very smooth and nice done, even when there are hordes of zombies around you game still runs nice and smooth, graphics are beautiful and atmosphere is awesome. Landscapes vary from buildings, streets, cities, to forests, fields, mountain, almost every cool surrounding is here. Everything is nicely animated, zombies look cool, not cheap, and there are many variations of them, from workers to clowns. Also these zombies run like hell, they are not slow, as we got used in Resident Evil series for example, but it's ok, because story-wise it's different virus. This is second game in the series, but you only need this one if you're planing on buying this game, because here included are also all campaigns from Left 4 Dead first game, so you have two games for the price of one, so you got many levels to blast through. What I don't like in this game? Well I don't have any particular objection, the only one would be that on higher difficulties game is really difficult, I mean that how it's supposed to be, but sometimes it's impossible, and you have repeat certain part many times, but if you have good players on your team, that's also problem that can be solved.
In conclusion if you're fan of FPS-s and horror games, and zombies, be sure to check this game out, because I find it very entertaining and innovative, you're going to have great fun, especially playing coop with real people. 

Rating: 10/10