*cracks her knuckles* Alright. I finally decided to download the demo for Left 4 Dead 2 just to see what my friends were freaking out over. Now, I'm not a fan of survival horror games, or most horror games in general (except for a few, like Fatal Frame and Ju-On The Grudge). Anyway, I know a lot of my steam friends praise this game to high hell and I know a bunch of them will definitely not agree with me on my opinion of Left 4 Dead 2. Whenever I said I wanted to play the first game before this one, all my friends were like, "Psht. No one plays the first game anymore. Everyone is playing the second one." Gee, sorry I like to play games in there sequential order. Regardless, here we go.
I know I only played the demo so I don't have the whole story and the times I did play with other random people in multiplayer mode (since everyone says multiplayer is the best way to play the game), they never spoke in any way at all and half the time one or more of them were shooting teammates during the missions. To be honest, they all could've been playing the game for the first time, just like me. At first I had no idea at all what the fuck to do. I wasn't told how to shoot (it was the only easy thing to figure out though, left click of course) or god forbid pick up and item until half-way through the first level I played. I was just sitting there trying every god damn key on my keyboard hoping to figure it out until finally I was told that I use the 'E' key for pretty much everything in the game; opening doors, climbing up ladders (that took me a while too), picking up items and weapons, and helping up your teammates when they get knocked down.
As far as the characters go, I wasn't really interested in any of their stories except Ellis, the southern accented guy of the team. Not sure why really. He seemed to be the only comedic character so I suppose I gravitate towards people that can make me laugh. As far as the graphics go, they're okay. The maps I did see were well made and looked pretty good. The AI of the zombies and your teammates are good as well. The chargers, jockeys, witches, smokers, and boomers creeped me out most definitely. Before playing any of the Left 4 Dead games I knew a little bit about them from hearing friends talk about it. I knew what smokers sounded like and I knew everything about boomers. God boomers scare me. The idea of being puked on is incredibly disgusting to me so I run like hell when I see or hear a boomer. *shudders*
This is a short little review because, like I said, I only played the demo. Maybe I might play the whole game. Maybe. The game was a little too repetitive to me. One of my friends argued with me about that too. I really don't find the mission of killing the same handful of zombies over and over and over again very appealing. My friend argued saying, "Well then, Team Fortress 2 is repetitive as well." Perhaps, but in TF2 you are certain that you are playing with and against real people, not AIs half the time. You have to work together as a team AND try and counter whatever the opposing team is doing. I'm sure versus mode in L4D2 is similar, but to me it sounds kinda boring to just kill the opposing team every round. It would be like if the only game type on TF2 that we had to choose from was 'arena' over and over instead of the plentiful interesting modes we do have, like 'control points' and 'payload'. All in all, I'm not of fan of Left 4 Dead.
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