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Brandon Boyer

AT 11:25 AM
Monday June 1, 2009

E3 2009 • PC • Xbox 360

left 4 dead • valve

E309: First look at Valve's Left 4 Dead 2

Just announced at Microsoft's E3 conference as an Xbox 360 console exclusive, Left 4 Dead 2, a new chapter of the game that takes the struggle against the horde to the southern bayou, and will focus more strongly on melee weapons -- chainsaws, axes, frying pans, and baseball bats -- on top of its updated arsenal of guns.

L4D2_TheParish.jpg

The game, due to launch on Xbox 360 and PC on November 17th, will also include new boss zombies, new survivors (seen above), and "more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, and maps for Survival mode available at launch."

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11 Comments

citykids

#1 – 12:14 PM June 1, 2009

Whoa! I almost wet myself when I saw this! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to clean up.

Anonymous Anonymous

#2 – 12:23 PM June 1, 2009

It's not an exclusive. It's hitting PC and 360 on the same day, same as L4D1

Andrew Ferguson

#3 – 12:47 PM June 1, 2009

Trailer's live on gametrailers.com now;

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-left-4-dead/49967

Enjoy!

failix

#4 – 1:05 PM June 1, 2009

I would so love to play this game... unfortunately, my idealism prevents me from installing windows on my machine, or to buy an xbox... why don't they release it for ps3 or even better: for linux?!

Grobstein

#5 – 4:05 PM June 1, 2009

This sequel should really be called: Left 5 Dead

Anonymous Anonymous

#6 – 2:22 AM June 2, 2009

Now WHY do they make another L4D game instead of HL2:Episode 3? We just got L4D... It's a good game, just needs some more maps, that's all!

Anonymous Anonymous

#7 – 7:55 AM June 2, 2009

Are these zombies actually "dead"? They look a bit more decomposed than the last batch.

My captcha phrase was "organs skins". Hilarious.

Anonymous Anonymous

#8 – 8:37 AM June 2, 2009

Valve was looking for a Linux guy earlier, not sure if they found or hired one yet.
So there's a distinct possibility that the penguin will get some Steam lovin' before too long.

Daemon

#9 – 11:02 AM June 2, 2009

It looks good. Massive bonus points for seeming to place the game in the one part of the states where zombies are actually culturally appropriate.

That said, zombies are a tad overdone. Somebody please come up with a new monster for the genre.

Anonymous Anonymous

#10 – 12:36 PM June 2, 2009

Cries of racism in 4.. 3.. 2..

Anonymous Anonymous

#11 – 3:06 PM June 2, 2009

No, no...it's not racism if you've got some of the same doing the shooting!


Although...that didn't seem to work too well for Capcom's RE5...maybe it'll help Valve that the "ethnic characters" aren't oversexed idiots.

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