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by Fussbett 10/17/2008, 10:38am PDT |
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Rock8man
Social Worker
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO, Gamertag: Rock8mnky, PSN: Rock8man
Posts: 3,358
There are a number of previews of the versus mode of L4D up today, including this one at Joystiq. And frankly, they don't seem all that enthusiastic about it. Both the gamespy preview and the Joystiq one point out that if you die as a survivor, there's a lot of waiting and watching in store for you. Overall, I guess I just don't see why this would be more appealing than so many other versus multiplayer games out there, aside from the Zombie setting. If it's atmosphere that the zombie setting provides, I think that the "scary factor" was much higher in a game like Aliens Vs Predator (and sequel) multiplayer, where even in multiplayer, watching an Alien crawling around, running towards me managed to scare the shit out of me.
ProStyle
Hustle
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Midwest - Gamertag: Cheerful Dub
Posts: 328
If I recall, it's basically Zombie mode from the AMX admin tool for CounterStrike, ported to Source with corresponding assets. Sure, you've got vomit ranged attacks and various speeds for the zombies, but the core function of team round play consisting of guns vs melee is a snoozer.
As far as I'm concerned all last man standing elimination style FPS games in general are really tedious and boring; unless you get to fight amongst the losers after failing the "real" challenge, like on old public Rocket Arena servers. |
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