Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a lovely new exclusive on Left 4 Dead's "Dead Air" campaign. This campaign has the team of survivors making their way to an airport for the final escape.
Be sure and read up on all of the fun times that were had in this hands-on with L4D's "Dead Air".
Jim: Finally, with several hundred zombie corpses under our belts, we reach the airport itself. We bust our way inside the terminal building. Less Heathrow Terminal 5, more Luton Airport, this is a tiny regional airport, albeit with a decent number of commercial airliners burning in wreckage across the front parking lot.The team describes how they've made their way from the starting area, a greenhouse, through the city streets to an office building. From there, the battle continued through to a parking garage, through to the airport terminal, and on to the final battle on the runway itself.[break="read more, and see a plane crash"]In fact, the final battle even incorporates a bit of cinematic physics thrown in with the arrival and explosive crash of an airplane.
John: This is something I love about Left 4 Dead: familiarity. This is an airport. And it’s such a drastically different location compared with, say, a farmhouse or a hospital. There’s an amazing sense of place.
Alec: Best game airport after Tony Hawk’s 2 (or 3, I forget). I yearned for a skateboard here.
Kieron: Yeah, was awesome. All the zombies modeled after the luggage handlers were splendid. It’s probably worth noting that there’s an impressive variety of infected, varying from zone to zone. The open-backed-gown hospital patients were a joy with their vile buttocks.
Be sure and read up on all of the fun times that were had in this hands-on with L4D's "Dead Air".