Chris Remo joins the growing list of web journalists that have had a chance to sit down and give the zombie survival game, Left 4 Dead, a try. Am I jealous? Yes. Reading this preview just made me want the game all that more. In other news, if anybody is willing to fly a certain CS-Nation news poster out to Valve headquarters in order to give all of these new games (Left 4 Dead, TF2, Portal, etc.) a try, I'm more than willing to pack my bags and hop on a flight!
Occasionally, that sense of teamplay is necessarily thrown out the window. Upon reaching the end of the scenario, we were forced to survive on a large crate-strewn helicopter pad until the airborne rescue team arrived. Of course, during that nervewracking waiting period, the AI director spawned an absolutely massive, seemingly neverending zombie offensive, complete with numerous bosses and countless zombies. After a while, I found myself the only surviving member of the team, with no practical way to bring my teammates back.Why am I living on the East Coast again?
This resulted in one of the most stressful gameplay experiences I have had in recent memory. It was stressful on a whole different level than being overwhelmed in a single-player game, because I knew my three dead teammates were watching me in spectator mode. Valve's Doug Lombardi aptly compared it to being the last remaining member of a team in a game of Counter-Strike.
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