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10-16-2008, 06:44 PM
Kotaku has an excellent first hands-on review of the game.
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Here is an exceprt from Kotaku (http://www.Kotaku.com):
"...I started off my stint with Left4Dead on the Infected team. We appeared in the same safe room as the Survivors in ghost form and had to move through the map to find a spawn point. The idea was to pick a place where we could either jump out and attack the Survivors (i.e. a dark closet, a crawl space or a stairwell). Each Infected can choose a totally different spot from one another – and if you happen to pick a lousy place, don’t sweat it. You’ll get to pick another spawn point all over again when you die (which you will – because zombies Infected are made for killing).
After picking a place to spawn in, each Infected became a specific type of Infected – a Boomer, a Smoker or a Hunter. As an Infected, I could see outlines of both my teammates and of the Survivors at all times – which helped me pick out my spawn point.
Each type of Infected has a special primary attack: the Boomer puke a substance that attracts hordes of NPC Infected to whoever gets barfed on; the Smoker has this wicked-long tong that can snare and choke a Survivor; and the Hunter can pounce and maul all in one long-range motion. There’s also the Tank Infected – sort of a cave troll – but this type only spawns in randomly after an Infected player has died a few times. If you’re the lucky bastard who gets to play as a Tank, you suddenly have a huge health gauge, the ability to fling dumpsters a la The Hulk, and a requirement to keep damaging Survivors (or else you lose your Tank spawn and go back to being a Hunter or whatever). Also, there’s a Witch Infected – but she counts as an NPC and I never ran into her the whole time I was playing, so I’ve got no idea what she does..."
You can read the whole thing with many more screenshots Here (http://kotaku.com/5064318/why-left4dead-versus-isnt-horde-mode)
http://kotaku.com/assets/images/gallery/9/2008/10/medium_2946477652_108bb3f33d_o.jpg
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http://kotaku.com/assets/images/gallery/9/2008/10/medium_2945615733_68b7a5a85e_o.jpg
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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/10/custom_1224140275700_NoMercy.jpg
Here is an exceprt from Kotaku (http://www.Kotaku.com):
"...I started off my stint with Left4Dead on the Infected team. We appeared in the same safe room as the Survivors in ghost form and had to move through the map to find a spawn point. The idea was to pick a place where we could either jump out and attack the Survivors (i.e. a dark closet, a crawl space or a stairwell). Each Infected can choose a totally different spot from one another – and if you happen to pick a lousy place, don’t sweat it. You’ll get to pick another spawn point all over again when you die (which you will – because zombies Infected are made for killing).
After picking a place to spawn in, each Infected became a specific type of Infected – a Boomer, a Smoker or a Hunter. As an Infected, I could see outlines of both my teammates and of the Survivors at all times – which helped me pick out my spawn point.
Each type of Infected has a special primary attack: the Boomer puke a substance that attracts hordes of NPC Infected to whoever gets barfed on; the Smoker has this wicked-long tong that can snare and choke a Survivor; and the Hunter can pounce and maul all in one long-range motion. There’s also the Tank Infected – sort of a cave troll – but this type only spawns in randomly after an Infected player has died a few times. If you’re the lucky bastard who gets to play as a Tank, you suddenly have a huge health gauge, the ability to fling dumpsters a la The Hulk, and a requirement to keep damaging Survivors (or else you lose your Tank spawn and go back to being a Hunter or whatever). Also, there’s a Witch Infected – but she counts as an NPC and I never ran into her the whole time I was playing, so I’ve got no idea what she does..."
You can read the whole thing with many more screenshots Here (http://kotaku.com/5064318/why-left4dead-versus-isnt-horde-mode)
http://kotaku.com/assets/images/gallery/9/2008/10/medium_2946477652_108bb3f33d_o.jpg
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/10/custom_1224140068880_left4dead_2008-09-19_13-59-26-95.jpg
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/10/custom_1224140367125_left4dead_2008-09-18_16-28-25-55.jpg
http://kotaku.com/assets/images/gallery/9/2008/10/medium_2945615733_68b7a5a85e_o.jpg
http://kotaku.com/assets/images/gallery/9/2008/10/medium_2946479836_aed60afca6_o.jpg