And, despite its age, a modding community continues to create new content. This co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns. The AI 'director', which schedules zombie attacks differently from game to game, remains a best-practice example of adding replayability through randomness. Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Left 4 Dead, the 1 co-op game of 2008. From the too-little-too-late government advice posters to the arguments conducted in graffiti across the walls of safe houses, the world created by designer Mike Booth and writer Chet Faliczek is both a commendably orthodox Romero hellscape (despite the presence of fast zombies, or strictly speaking rabid 'infected') and occasionally a genuinely creepy experience.

Until The Last of Us, Left 4 Dead 2 was arguably the most well-constructed zombie apocalypse around, a particularly impressive feat when it is primarily a setting for frenetic gunplay and exploding heads, rather than the backdrop of a BioWare RPG. In single-player mode it is a diverting, if sometimes easy, stroll through an atmospheric post-apocalypse. And, of course, the distance to making a purchase is significantly narrowed by rewarding a customer for navigating to the store with the promise of a free game.Įconomics aside, however, what is perhaps more important is that Left 4 Dead 2 is still a really good game. Economically, Left 4 Dead 2 is effectively a spent good - the number of potential buyers left who would be interested in paying more than a nominal fee for it, when more modern shooters exist, is approaching, if not zero, then a small enough number to make the hypothetical loss of sales here nugatory. In practical terms, this has the potential to bring more consumers into the store at the height of Steam's winter sale. Until 10am PST on the 26 December, anyone left on the planet who has not already purchased the game is free to download it with nothing more than a Steam account.

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