Left 4 Dead 2 Doubles Predorders, Plus Finale Footage

Marc "DjinniMan" Allie July 5th, 2009 at 9:09 AM

These four are tired of reading boycott signatures.

It appears the impossible has happened. The original Left 4 Dead dominated the news last year, but Left 4 Dead 2 seems to be getting even more coverage. Of course, not all of it has been good, as many petition writing fans can attest. The controversy doesn't appear to have altered gamers' anticipation, according to Eurogamer. Preorders for the game are at double the rate of the original at this point in time.

Want to see some of the reasons why zombie slayers are so excited about Left 4 Dead 2? We've got some excellent gameplay footage from CVG for you. New weapons are shown (to great effect), one of the new special infected, the Charger, turns up, and some gameplay tweaks are in evidence. (One example is the onscreen notification when a teammate is being shredded by a hunter.) The setting is an enormous bridge, full of all sorts of obstacles that the characters must cross in order to be rescued. No more hiding in a closet for this finale! One other thing: it's weird to see someone fighting zombies in broad daylight, isn't it?

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10 Total Reader Comments

Lun4tic at 05:29 AM on 7.5.2009

I don't know if anybody else is having problems viewing those videos, but they don't work for me in both IE and Firefox. Is there a mirror somewhere?

xxW4R EAGL3xx at 05:34 AM on 7.5.2009

Too bad they died in the end.

Armor Biff at 07:49 AM on 7.5.2009

Haha, I cant watch them either. It keeps telling that I'm younger than 15, after I put my birthdate in.

bapenguin at 08:12 AM on 7.5.2009

The dates are in UK format, so it's DD-MM-YYYY

Dodomaster at 10:59 AM on 7.5.2009

"One example is the onscreen notification when a teammate is being shredded by a hunter."

That is also in the first one, but if you've played a lot you probably wouldn't notice it anymore.

Looks good btw, although it wasn't clear what had to be done in the end.

smurphster at 02:09 PM on 7.5.2009

on XBL there's an OXM report (on the "spotlight" channel) featuring left 4 dead 2 which is pretty interesting. 5 campaigns which they claim are longer than the first game's campaigns, they showed off the frying pan and the axe (although they didn't actually show anyone being chopped), and there's a new game mode that they haven't revealed yet. sounds like its becoming more worthy of my cash

Brainp0wa at 02:35 PM on 7.6.2009

I haven't pre-ordered it yet but I might. Looks like its five bucks off if you pre-order from Gamestop now. Hmm, so 54.99 minus the 17 bucks I got for trading in the first one and that 25 dollar gift card I got for doing all those surveys... looks like it ends up being a 13 dollar game to me.

SOLD! er, PRE-SOLD!

Agentfyre at 05:20 PM on 7.6.2009

I wanted to see the Charger in those videos but all I saw were a couple of hunters and a tank... Did I miss something?

Other than that, they were cool vids. I like the idea of running during the day (and having a wandering witch), but it lost a lot of the stressful fright that the night levels had.

smurphster at 06:41 AM on 7.7.2009

watch the OXM report i mentioned above (sorry i don't think its online, only on XBL). they show a charger but not attacking.

Agentfyre at 07:00 AM on 7.7.2009

yea, I've seen a charger. I was just REALLY hoping to see exactly how it will own people. They say it will destroy campers, and that's gotten me excited, but I wanna see it.

DARN GAME COMPANIES AND THEIR SECRETS!

Then again, on the other side of that claim...Peter Molyneux...
He's not a bad guy, he just gets us excited for things that won't be.