![]() ![]() And that's pretty much what Valve have gone for: oppressive, co-op, zombie fun.Īnd when I say co-op, try to imagine the word written in eighty foot high concrete letters. That is a true zombie game, because if you can pull it off, then you can replace the zombies with, say, koalas and it' still feel like a zombie game. The trick is to recreate the tension and emotion of the zombie apocalypse, where you and the last three sane people on Earth huddle together in a basement somewhere while the entire population of the landmass stand outside meaningfully rubbing their bellies and waving ice cream scoops. Now obviously there's been tons of games with zombies in, but in most cases they're just standard challenge obstacles to litter the corridors, interchangeable with terrorists, or aliens, or mean-spirited traffic barriers. Valve have therefore proven to us just how big nerds they are (If that weren't already obvious from their series of games about a bespectacled scientist beating up hordes of big, tough, football scholarship marines) with Left 4 Dead, a true blue zombie game in the Source engine. I guess its just that the breakdown of society is attractive to people with absolutely no social skills, and, while you may have to hide from slavering mutants your whole life, at least the big boys will never again tape you into a bin and kick you down the stairs. ![]() They watch movies about them, they dress up like them and wander around irritating commuters in major cities, and it seems every time a hot new engine comes out some craven optimist will try to make a zombie mod for it, Post-it one gun model and a piece of concept art before the level designer remembers he's only ever worked in Lego and the whole thing falls apart. ![]() It's my observation that zombies are second only to ninjas, pirates, and monkeys in the list of things nerds like and need to shut the fuck up about. ![]()
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