During Microsoft’s X10 event, Valve was on-hand to show off new downloadable content (DLC) for their cooperative zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead 2, while also announcing that new DLC will soon become available for their original Left 4 Dead title.
The new DLC for Left 4 Dead 2 is called ‘The Passing,’ and in it, players will meet up with the original game’s survivors Francis, Bill, Zoey and Louis as non-playable characters, who will help players out this time around in the third section of the DLC’s campaign.
The Passing will add one new enemy called the Fallen Survivor, an uncommon common infected type, who will sometimes drop items, such as health kits or ammunition, when killed.
This new DLC will also allow players to see new sides to the characters differing storylines – storylines that will be explored further in a new Left 4 Dead digital comic book (illustrated by Powers artist Michael Avon Oeming) that will release shortly after The Passing DLC becomes available.
The Passing for Left 4 Dead 2 is slated for a “late March” release date on PC and Xbox 360, while the DLC for the original Left 4 Dead, which aims to bridge the gap between that game and The Passing, will be released a “month or so” after that.
Check out the rest of the newly released Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing screenshots by gently rolling your eyeballs downwards (gentle screen scrolling will also be required):
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Yiipppee, time to schedule some more Left 4 Dead co-op gaming in! (Bryan, Oltman, Oliver, Wayne - clear your calendars please!)
Fact: zombie apocalypse preparations always take a slot every weekend for me. I am already training for The Inevitable, but can slot in some mental preparation (and role-playing) on the XBOX360 with you guys at any time. You need to let me know, and we need to organise another L4D2 training program.
i am confused... is this a zombie outbreak, or are they simply infected humans? oh well, self nou lus vir 'n stukkie vleis... how about we combine the 2 events?
Why would you ask that question, Oltman? WHY? Now you know Bryan is going to have to point out the differences between zombies and infected humans......
The LAN sounds good - pencil me in.
Sigh. Amateurs.
Left 4 Dead is CLEARLY just an outbreak of a mutated rabies virus gone crazy. They're infected humans. How can you tell? A gunshot to the body will be as lethal as a gunshot to the head. What else can you tell? They run really fast, and are still able to manipulate their environment (although having said that, George R. Romero's latest zombie flicks, such as Land of the Dead, includes zombies using Steyr Aug assault rifles and communicating [which is also a reference back to Bubba in Day of the Dead).
You see, the rabies virus in Left 4 Dead is much the same as the RAGE virus in 28 Days Later (which, incidentally, is the French word for rabies). I would say Left 4 Dead is like the game version of 28 Days Later, only in another continent.
Interestingly, unlike most classic zombie movies, these infected are referred to as "zombies" in Left 4 Dead, whereas in reality they are not zombies at all, and ironically, in the real zombie worlds, they refer to the zombies not as zombies, but "things" and "monsters".
Finally, Left 4 Dead 2 does bother me a bit, because it would appear from what I've seen that there are some really messed up and decayed "zombies" roaming around, which isn't physiologically possible considering they are - for all intents and purposes - still living humans, only really messed up with a virus. If they're lumbering about with half their body missing, then they SHOULD NOT be lumbering about at all!
Also, this leads me onto an interesting loophole in the plot-line for the Left 4 Dead series: the Infected (aka "Zombies") don't do much eating at the best of times, because there's not enough to eat out there, so one should expect them to not last indefinitely, and as is the case with 28 Days / Weeks Later, the infection dies out because the bodies can't find enough sustenance to maintain.
SUPER finally, why oh why are there little or no signs of animals? If this is a mutated rabies virus, one should expect animals to also be affected by this.
I still manage to suspend my disbelief when playing this game, because regardless of its obvious flaws, it still holds merit for mental preparation and anticipation for The Unstoppable Day of Turning.
If anyone wants to, drop me a line and I'll add you to the First Response SMS list and assign you with a responsibility for that day. You may even get to hide in my crawlspace if you play your cards right.
wat the....theres suppose to be a original survivor sacrificing there self