Yes, it does rock.
The Left 4 Dead 2 demo pre-release opened in the U.S. last night and it showed a tasty bit of brains, blood and supreme awesomeness.Although you can’t get your hands on a chain saw in the demo, a small picture of two chain saws representing how many mele kills you had in the round may prove otherwise. Until then gamers will get to play around with frying pans, knightsticks, machetes and electric guitars. Forget the guns, there is nothing more satisfying than playing on expert and running head on into a pack of zombies with a machete.
The guns on the other hand have vastly improved with new types of explosive rounds and more to be revealed on the November release. While you have the ability to use the previous guns, there are now scoped assault riffles, SMGs and plenty more to come.
The graphics have not improved much, but that isn’t a bad thing. The graphics were already supreme and there will now be changes in weather, lighting and various other effects to ensure no match to be the same.
The characters are humorous and talk quite a bit more, with more things to say. Ignore the ideas that Valve was being racist when creating the Louisiana just because some of the Zombies were black. There are quite clearly many races of zombies, although they seem pretty repetitive among the ones around. It would be happier with at least a change of clothing on some of the areas with hordes of zombies rushing in but as long as you can lop off arms and heads I’m indifferent. Oh did we forget to mention that? Heads will roll and arms will fly if you shoot the zombies in the right spots now.
The new types of enemy zombies are quite the little d-bags. The charger resembles that of a virgin on steroids (one arm much larger than the other) and your pretty screwed when you see him. If you get enough distance on him or get behind him a few hacks with the machete will do the trick. The worst of the newbies is the Jockie. He seems to be able to hide well amongst the horde and will simply jump on you and ride you around. The Jockie is similar to that of a hunter, but better at jumping out of dark places. The spitter is a mix between Boomer and the Smoker. Basically he vomits a trail of acid, don’t step in it and your good.
The game also adds in some nifty new toys like the boomer bile canister. This draws in zombies around it and lets you easily pick them off with any tool of destruction. The new levels look great and the harder paths you choose the more of these nifty new toys you get access too.
Just remember to stick together and aim for the head. In the words of a great wise man, “It’s time to nut up or shut up.” Now where is my Twinkee… Ghost Busters? (Zombieland references) In game photos will come soon, I swear…ish.
Left 4 Dead 2 gets a pre-rating of 5/5 burritos
