Survival Mode
Valve finally added a survival mode to Left 4 Dead. Insanely hard if you don’t have a good team. That meaning coordinated more than anything. Then with a good team it is just hard if you don’t know the level well. Survival mode is closer to what I expected the entire game to be like. Endless horde bum rushing you from start to finish.
I expected the game to be an endless horde rushing you with specials mixed in from time to time. Having to hole up in a location and fight until the horde subsided for a bit allowing you to run to a new location. Or using the tank as a way to scare the horde and hope you can run from the tank long enough to reach some form of safety. OR even just play it the good old rambo style and fight your way through the horde out in the open in hopes of a big pay off.
Survival mode is really just the normal panic and finale events that are found through out the game anyways. Plus a few new ones. Only the worse case scenario where what ever you just did to try and progress back-fired. You are now trapped with an endless horde of zombies bearing down on you. Now you have to try and take as many as possible with you. How long can YOU survive?
Left 4 Dead
Is a 4 player co-op game. The four players a trying to wade their way through an endless horde of “Infected” humans. The infected humans are much like the ones from the novell I Am Legend. They are very much alive, intelligent, and can work together. The infected in the book “I Am Legend” play more of a vampiric role. With a few that are even zombies but the living infected kill off the undead infected.
Left 4 Dead is the same model with some tweaks. You aren’t all alone as in Neville’s case both in the fact that you play with 3 others and there are other non-infected humans elsewhere. Your goal as a survivor is to make it to the evacuation point and call in an evacuation. This could take an hour or more to reach this point. While an endless horde of infected standing between you and your goal. The infected are alive and intelligent. While they may not be smart enough to wield guns (yet) they will alert other infected to your presence and begin the assault on your location. Thankfully they are human after all and are pretty weak with a few exceptions. Some infected sport inhuman mutations that make them deadlier but they still die easy enough if you can survive long enough. In certain game modes you and others are even allowed to play as the “mutated”(boss) infected and attack the survivors yourself.
