And zombies can also climb over fences and pretty much anything that gets on their way.

Shooting a car and making the alarm go off might attract hundreds of them in a matter of seconds, along with causing your teammates to shout at you over the microphone. Hordes await for you in every street, expecting for the slight miscalculation from your part to go forth. We are talking about 28 Days Later level of undead aggressiveness. And folks, let me tell you: they run fast. You know how the stereotype of a zombie had largely been to portray them as slow-moving beings, often being more on the dumb side than anything? Well, in Left 4 Dead, zombies could run. Following the flying message, they start chasing the helicopter in the midst of a zombie outbreak shooting everything in sight, and quickly learning there is friendly fire enabled for default.

The biker Francis, the college student Zoey, the Vietnam veteran Bill, and the Junior Systems Analyst named Louis gather together, grabbing their weapon of choice and a medkit. And, in this case, that means remembering the first campaign of the game: No Mercy.Ī chopper flies through a desolated city while a group of survivors prepares for the night of their lives. We could discuss many of the aspects why it became such a huge game, how it set the foundations of the sequel or perhaps dive into its ridiculously large modding scene, but for its 10th anniversary, I want to talk about how it all began. I’ve never looked back since, clocking over hundreds of hours on it. And, perhaps without realizing it, the game became the reason why I upgraded graphics card in order to play it. Left 4 Dead first showed up in my life as merely a dream: my PC would barely showcase the main menu without taking me back to the desktop with a crash message. I can’t recall how many times I’ve heard this over the past 10 years.

I repeat: Proceed to Mercy Hospital for evacuation. To anyone who can hear this: Proceed to Mercy Hospital for evacuation.

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