Retro Ad Replay - Left 4 Dead's 12th Anniversary

It'southward time for anotherRetro Ad Replay article! This is the series where we head backwards in time to reminisce and gloat the anniversary of some of the most meaning moments in gaming. If you find yourself wanting more content similar this, be sure to visit Mandatory.com.

In this November 17 edition of Retro Ad Replay, we're taking a trip dorsum 12 years to when Left iv Dead first launched on PC and Xbox 360. That's November 17, 2008. Developed and published past Valve, this co-op survival horror game pitting upwards to four players against huge numbers of zombies and special infected.

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The GameRevolution Left 4 Deadreview awarded the game a score of 4/5, praising the "zombie apocalypse a go-go," "great team tactics," "spooky maps," "Versus mode letting the histrion be a zombie," and "randomly generated hordes of zombies."

Here's a snippet from the GR review:

The concept of LEFT four DEAD (or Left4Dead, if that floats your zombie boat) is simple. You and 3 other survivors are stuck in the middle of a ZOMBIEPOCALYPSE reminiscent of a George A. Romero film. Y'all struggle through massive undead hordes to become from safehouse to safehouse until you are ultimately rescued… or perish in a roughshod frenzy.

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What can I say? LEFT 4 Dead is pretty fun. It's exactly the type of zombie survival game that the genre has been waiting for. The intensity never lets upwardly for ane minute from the fourth dimension you open up the safehouse door to your daring escape at the end of each campaign. Yous will fight for your survival and have a nail doing it. The only matter lacking is a unique single-player experience, but like I said before, information technology's only not that blazon of game. Just recollect of it as training for the inevitability of the real thing happening.

Check out the Left 4 Dead trailer below (hosted by aarocha3 on YouTube):