Awesome, L4D on IGN... finally!

[dontleave]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/810/810551p1.html

Took 3, standard American minutes for Valves booth to fill up, awesome... I bet all the guys at the Quake booth were like, "what the hell?"

We'll have more on Left 4 Dead as the show continues, including fresh impressions and direct-feed video. Keep checking back to IGN PC for the latest in QuakeCon info, as well as future coverage on the zombie-infested creation by Turtle Rock Studios, and be sure to check out our booth photos of Left 4 Dead in the image gallery below.

Videos here: http://media.pc.ign.com/media/818/818215/vids_1.ht ml (http://media.pc.ign.com/media/818/818215/vids_1.html)

Also, this is the second article that's said late this year, and not early next year... whats up?

[Nemesis_vs_Leon]

Awesome.

<('.'<) kirby is also awesome

[dontleave]

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3544/left4dead20070803032624zv4.jpg (http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3544/left4dead20070803032624zv4.jpg)

[D_Smid4499]

They also mentioned it get released this year? So I guess the other guy was wrong or what...

[dontleave]

Yeah, but I thought we got an email confirmation did we not?

[iRelentless]

Nice! More media! :D

[Anti Zombie Task Force]

they said they were aiming for after the x-mas but they also said its done when its done so im guessing it still can come out any time but its probably not coming out any time before late november

[Anti Zombie Task Force]

so im hoping its false

[dontleave]

Lol, on the comments on the bottom of the link, some idiot recommended this site but spelled it, &quot;leftfordead411&quot;... what a nub.

[D_Smid4499]

that wasn't me... tehe



serious

[Etheallmighty]

cool hopefuly they have some HD footage, it's only 3 days right? that means only 2morrow !!!! :(

[squerl]

Nice find, there's also a new GameSpy article here:

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/turtle-rock-project/81054 4p1.html (http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/turtle-rock-project/810544p1.html)

[No Shelter]

Sierra was there? WiC!!! Nice find. Going to check it out right now :)

[hool10]

Lol IGN was surprised at a line! :-p On the right hand side they say the release date is November and it will be $39.99.

[squerl]

If they are doing a simultaneous launch, I don't know how their pricing will work. If the PC version is anything below $50, people will be real mad unless the X360 isn't $60..

[hool10]

Is a direct-feed video directly from the game itself? As in no camera recording it?

[squerl]

That's what they said anyway, we'll see..

[dontleave]

direct-feed video directly from the game itself

No, they mean direct-feed as indirect shaky camera footage >.<

[D_Smid4499]

lawl, these peoples comments are ridiculous, I feel like cracking some skulls...

[dontleave]

Everyone who posted about grahpics probably only plays CS:S and therefore dont notice...

God damnit, whens the media coming? I hope soon, on of the hundreds of people who showed up at their booth should have brought a damn camera.

Four player online co-op modes seems to be the new black in multiplayer games. Halo 3 and Haze will both support such modes for their single player games. However, the upcoming Source engine based zombie action title Left 4 Dead by developer Turtle Rock Studios is being developed from the ground up with co-op in mind. Turtle Rock showed off a playable build of Left 4 Dead at QuakeCon and we got our hands very dirty playing a round or two.
The game will have four different missions, each in a different location with five maps. At QuakeCon we played through a couple of the game's urban maps, complete with wrecked cars, dark alleyways and smashed up subway stations. While the game is designed to be played by four players, the game will give you AI controlled players if you find yourself lacking one or two people or if you just want to play alone. At the beginning of a map you load up on your preferred weapon (pistols, shotguns, machine guns and the like) along with ammo and health packs (more on health later). Then you and your buddies and/or AI teammates head out to deal with the zombie horde. These zombies are of the fast moving 28 Day Later/Dawn Of The Dead remake variety rather than the tried and true slow moving George Romero versions.

Because the zombies are such movers, they tend to swarm into the four player team with a lot of ferocity which means that you and the other players will be shooting and running quite a lot. Our playtime period with Left 4 Dead was frantic to the extreme; there was very little downtime as we moved through the smashed urban landscape with zombies all around you. The game's enemy AI is supposed to learn how you are doing in the game. If things are easy for your team it will up the ante on the zombie horde; if your team isn't doing so well the game might give you a bit of a break.

While most of the zombies are fairly generic examples of the undead, Left 4 Dead does offer up some special zombies to deal with. One is the Smoker who drags you to him via his extremely long tougue while the Hunter is a kind of zombie ninja; he can cloak himself and moves and leaps quickly onto you. Two large zombies are the Boomer who fires blood out of his mouth and onto you (it blocks your vision for several second) and the massive Tank which can crush you down with his bare hands. One cool thing about the game is that you can also choose to play Left 4 Dead as one of the specially powered zombies. You can fight against the humans in 4x4 action or you can play the single player game as a zombie.

Health plays a bigger role in Left 4 Dead than in other first person shooters. When your health goes down to zero you fall and cannot move (although you can still shoot a pistol) and you see a red countdown to ultimate death. If you have a health pack you can heal yourself; if you are without one a teammate can take a few second to heal you up. There's a limit, however, to how much you can do with health packs. If you don't make it to the end of the map you may find yourself put down permanently.

Visually the game uses Valve's Source engine (Turtle Rock helped to develop Counter-Strike: Source for Valve) and if you are familiar with the visuals of Half-Life 2 you most likely will be used to the art and graphics style of Left 4 Dead. Character and weapons models are solid in the build that we played and the urban environments looked appropriately seedy and desolate. There isn't any of the graphical flair that we have seen in Team Fortress 2's visuals but it's certainly effective for the kind of game it is.

As they did in Counter-Strike: Source, Turtle Rock and their partners at Valve plan to release even more missions for Left 4 Dead after the initial release and you can bet that there will be mod support for the game as well. Our brief time with the game showed that shooting zombies with your buddies is always more fun than doing it alone and we can't wait to play the full version. Left 4 Dead is scheduled to be released later this year for the PC; an Xbox 360 version is also planned. - Firingsquad

So... does that mean with a medpack you can lift yourself up?

[squerl]

Duck just pointed out there are four videos up now!

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/818/818215/vids_1.ht ml (http://media.pc.ign.com/media/818/818215/vids_1.html)

[A DUCK]

Sorry about new topic squerl :).

The new vids are short, but awesome.

[squerl]

So... does that mean with a medpack you can lift yourself up?

No, but where was that article from?

[squerl]

Awesome.

1st: Near the top of the hospital. Boomer explodes at the beginning, gets jumped by a Hunter, then near :30 he gets overwhelmed by zombies from behind. He then gets up and is on his 'third strike' - screen turns black and white, hear his heart pumping.

2nd: On top of the hospital roof, before they start the finale. More great audio, zombie noises etc.

3rd: During a finale (can see the bar at the top with time remaining). Smoker smoke deployed, can hear coughing when the player gets near it. Can see lighting in the distance, barbed wire along the edges looks a little iffy.

4th: More finale. Tank on fire, looks awesome.throws debris right before he dies. Can see what it looks like to climb on ladders (can see arms). At :56 you can see the voice command wheel with different commands.

[hool10]

Oh wow! Unfortunately FileNazi controls IGN so anybody have an account? If so please upload the videos to a file sharing site. Come on buffer! :-p Looks superb though. *HOLY SMOKES! :D Awesome videos and a great weekend!

[squerl]

You can't do the 'watch it now'?

[hool10]

You can't do the 'watch it now'?

I can but it's in a low-res format and I can't d/l it.

[A DUCK]

Hool10:

This is how i dled them and i dont have an account with them ( dont need to use one)

Just left click the link next to each video that says &quot;Right click here to save&quot;
A popup will come up saying you have to be registered/ logged in or w/e, but just wait a few seconds without closing the popup and it will bring up a window for you to dl it.

[hool10]

Ah ok thanks for the tip. What happened in the second video? The screen turned all blue and there was a sound of his heartbeat going. Also the razor sharp sounds of the hunter clawing at you sounds sweet.

[A DUCK]

Ah ok thanks for the tip.
Np.
What happened in the second video? The screen turned all blue and there was a sound of his heartbeat going.
I think squerl said that meant he was on his third strike :).

[squerl]

Yeah, that's after he's been down three times - next time he'll die immediately.

[hool10]

Ahh thought so. While the videos are short, I think these are the best ones ever. Uploading to youtube now.

[No Shelter]

Ahh thought so. While the videos are short, I think these are the best ones ever. Uploading to youtube now.

Agreed, very awesome! Did they change the blood too! Yay! Little glitchy when getting helped up and your shooting/reloading.

Theres emotes.

[dontleave]

Yaaaaaaaaaaay. Nice decaptitation. Voice comm thing looks slick. Second video is awesome, I love the voices and what they say.

[No Shelter]

I like how the biker guy seems so cool in a situation their in. He said something like, &quot;You almost got __ haha dont worry I got you&quot;.

[Punisher 36O]

not sure if this has been posted or not so i will post it any way, 4 vids about a min long, very good audio quality,

http://uk.media.pc.ign.com/media/818/818215/vids_1 .html (http://uk.media.pc.ign.com/media/818/818215/vids_1.html)

:D lol, yep same as the first post, my bad

[dontleave]

Yeah he laughs a lot, you can hear the laughter in the first video also. And one zombie totally gets hit in the nuts climbing up onto the pipe... haha

Hopefully by the end they change to more voices, like when your closer to death he says different things and sounds differnt, they already say their facial expressions differ so why not their voice and attitude?

some of the animations for the dying zombies, like the one in the last video getting killed by the veteran for example, totally look like snuff movies... whether thats good or not... idono.

There are quite a few bugs and minor details they need to fix... new blood decalso n the walls would be better. Hopefully they'll hear some suggestions, they changed the fire afterall :)

[Punisher 36O]

the guns really sound awesome.

are they puting background music in?

[hool10]

&quot;Oh, I thought you were hosed for sure. But I think I can get back on your feet.&quot; For the talk tree you have: &quot;Sorry&quot;, &quot;Where Are You?&quot;, &quot;Thank You&quot;, &quot;I'm With You&quot;, &quot;Yes&quot;, &quot;No&quot;, &quot;Your Welcome&quot;. I can't make one other nor can I make out the middle one. I can tell that the middle one is &quot;Ready&quot; though because he never mouses over to any of the commands. This function is similar to BF2 &quot;spotted&quot; command. The guy did run out of ammo for his main gun too. So it is possible to run out of ammo. Sound like aliens still too.

[dontleave]

A comma rose...

[Punisher 36O]

yeah that what i had refranced it to in my head, the old BF2 see and say deal, its cool.

but i think this game will be better with ppl who like talking on mics, there will be some screams to be had playing in the dark.

also im glad thay kept the lights on in the city. no reason why the horizon cant look pretty after an apocolips

[dontleave]

He didn't run out of ammo, he ran out of space in the walls.

[squerl]

are they puting background music in?

Yeah, there'll be music that changes with what's happening.. it just wasn't in the video.

[Revak]

I don't care if there will be music, Ill be turning it off anyways. Gotta hear the zombies and everyone else talking. :P

[Punisher 36O]

Yeah, there'll be music that changes with what's happening.. it just wasn't in the video.

cool, thanks

got another question, in vid 2, they say hunter twice and then it lands on him, i really wana kno where the hunter was when they see it. . . .any theorys? coz i cant get my head around it. it must be to the right of the guy. . . right? but when it lands its like it was from the left. . . out of the building

and omg that 2nd vid is a great example of how the last in the line can be picked off by a mass of zombies, lol damn these vids geting me all excited and its about 6 months away

does any one think there will be an online Beta?

[squerl]

No idea where the Hunter came from, they can leap really far so it looks like he had come from the top of another structure behind the Survivors..

[Punisher 36O]

these vids are sturing alot of questions in my head now,

will there be any decapitation?. . . if i spelt that wrong i mean, limbs flying of, direct headshots with the sniper resulting in head explosions? that kind of thing, not that im being picky i already think this will be the best game out for some time after 08.

lol. are my eyes fooling me or is that a Boomer at the end of vid 4? hes quick for a big fella

[Punisher 36O]

this could be one of few FPS games that needs health bars, lived without them for a while now but i will be glad thay are there when i play this zombie riot.

[squerl]

Yeah, limbs/heads of zombies will get blasted off and you'll be able to see the arm flying through the air.

Where are you seeing the Boomer? I don't see him.

[Punisher 36O]

Yeah, limbs/heads of zombies will get blasted off and you'll be able to see the arm flying through the air

AWESOME!

Where are you seeing the Boomer? I don't see him.

at about 37 sec in vid 4, he runs from left to right outsde the room the survz are in.
im pretty sure its the big dogg now, had no idea they would be that fast tho

[dontleave]

OMG EDIT: And yes there's decaptiation, I've already mentioned it. And the video actually does a close up of a zombie with a missing leg on the ladder, and a zombie who gets his head blown off on the ladder.

As for the Hunter, Zoey went ahead the opposite way from where the Hunter pounced or lunged, whatever... She probably saw him, he ran the other way to flank and ran into that guy. That explains why Zoey was far ahead, coming back around when the guy gets back up onto his feet. Another theory is that someone saw him at the corner of their screen but didn't actually see him and turned away.

The boomer is at the beginning and end of the fourth video. I love how the veteran finishes that zombie in the shack.

[Punisher 36O]

And yes there's decaptiation, I've already mentioned

my bad dude, soz, its late where i am, must have missed a few posts and yeah that hunter story makes sence, thanks

[squerl]

and a zombie who gets his head blown off on the ladder.

YEAH at :03 in the 3rd video, ahaha awesome.

[dontleave]

I think the poor zombie who gets his leg blown off right when he gets up on the ladder was cooler, you didn't see it but you can put piece and piece together... He's right on the ladder with his stub sticking out. Lawls, hopefully they make the decapitation for the legs less neat... little flesh hanging off doesnt hurt.

[squerl]

What time?

[dontleave]

0:50 on the first video...

[No Shelter]

Haha sweet.

[shadowhunter]

ok im confused now is it november or 08 WTF!!!!!

[Plankie]

08.

[Anti Zombie Task Force]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/810/810724p2.html
New Hands on preview on ign

[Anti Zombie Task Force]

There's still plenty of time before Left 4 Dead comes out - the only real release date the team will give us is &quot;2008&quot; - but already we're dying to get involved in a beta, grab a few friends, and dive into this game for hours and hours on end. In short, it's a zombie-lover's wet dream, as it contains all the &quot;Oh ****&quot; moments of a good horror game, is constantly throwing creepy scenarios at you - we recall standing with our three partners in front of a manhole saying &quot;Ok, who's going to jump down first?&quot; - and it brings an awesomely risky form of friendly fire cooperative play to the horror genre. And trust us, when you see half a dozen sprinting zombies leap onto your friend and begin tearing his flesh off you'll think twice before carelessly unloading a stack of rounds into the crowd.

[D_Smid4499]

Hands on preview
http://pc.ign.com/articles/810/810724p1.html

crap, beaten...

[No Shelter]

&quot;Ok, who's going to jump down first?&quot;

Thats my favorite bit.