Left 4 Dead
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Left 4 Dead

80
Critic Rating
#Shooter

About

Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter set during a zombie outbreak on the East Coast of the United States. Four players control survivors who must fight through hordes of infected humans, creatures transformed by a rabies-like pathogen that causes extreme aggression and loss of higher brain function. Gameplay emphasizes teamwork, with colored outlines showing teammate positions through walls, shared healing items, and friendly fire creating consequences for careless shooting. An AI system called the Director dynamically adjusts enemy placement, item spawns, and pacing based on player performance. Beyond common infected, players face five special mutated types with unique abilities. Campaigns are divided into levels connected by safe houses, each culminating in a desperate last stand for rescue.

Storyline

An outbreak of a pathogen nicknamed the Green Flu sweeps across Pennsylvania, causing extreme aggression, loss of higher brain function, and rapid mutation in its victims. Two weeks after the first infection, four immune survivors find themselves stranded together in the city of Fairfield: Bill, a Vietnam veteran; Zoey, a college student; Louis, a district account manager; and Francis, an outlaw biker. As the group fights through city streets, subways, and countryside in search of evacuation, they discover that the military's containment efforts are failing and that the infection is producing increasingly dangerous mutations in some of its hosts. Each rescue attempt leads to another setback, pushing the survivors further from safety and forcing them to rely entirely on each other to stay alive.

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Multiplayer

Online Co-opUp to 4
Local Co-opUp to 2
Campaign Co-opYes
Split ScreenLocal

Languages

LanguageSupport
EnglishInterface
EnglishAudio
FrenchAudio
FrenchInterface
GermanInterface
GermanAudio
Spanish (Spain)Interface
Spanish (Spain)Audio
RussianInterface
RussianAudio
DutchInterface
DanishInterface
FinnishInterface
ItalianInterface
JapaneseInterface
NorwegianInterface
PolishInterface
Portuguese (Portugal)Interface
Chinese (Simplified)Interface
SwedishInterface
Chinese (Traditional)Interface
KoreanInterface
TurkishInterface
TurkishSubtitles
UkrainianInterface
UkrainianSubtitles
VietnameseInterface
Portuguese (Brazil)Subtitles
ThaiInterface
ThaiSubtitles
VietnameseSubtitles

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Game Info

Release Date11/17/2008
DeveloperValve
PublisherValve
PlatformsPC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360
GenresShooter
IGDB Rating80/100 (749)

Game Modes

Single player
Multiplayer
Co-operative

Themes

Action
Horror
Survival

Perspectives

First person

Release Dates

MacNov 17, 2008
PC (Microsoft Windows)Nov 17, 2008
Xbox 360Nov 18, 2008
PC (Microsoft Windows)Nov 18, 2008
MacOct 27, 2010