Left 4 Dead is a game that venerates zombie movies throughout the ages; George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead r was one of my favour films of recent days for me it had everything I like about zombie films. Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later is also one of my favourite zombie films allot more dramatic scenes and is much closer to home. In the game, you and up to three other survivors must battle a zombie apocalypse with a simple goal you aren't trying to eradicate the undead horde; you're just trying to survive.

The game by valve is in its self an amazing and intense and very poplar the online mode means you can play with friends or outer people around the world. The dreaded zombie apocalypse has finally come to pass, turning the vast majority of the population into mindless, ravenous unread hordes. A handful of humans remain immune to the zombie virus, and you play as a small group of them. There's Zoey, a young woman and Bill the grizzled veteran Louis, the middle-class office worker; and Francis, the biker. Armed with real and makeshift weapons, these survivors must battle their way to salvation. It’s the kind of game anyone can play my girlfriend who had never played a first person shooter got riley into left for dead. The amount of detail gone into the game is outstanding.

The zombie horde that you battle is based on the "fast" zombies seen in movies like 28 Weeks Later. These zombies don't shamble. Instead, they sprint at you with inhuman speed, scale fences, and bust down doors to get at you. Horde zombies aren't smart, but they are dangerous in large numbers. The real danger comes in the form of some special zombies. There's the hunter, which can leap across large distances to pin a survivor to the ground. Then there's the smoker, which has a frog-like tongue that can grab a survivor by the throat. The boomer is a corpulent zombie that vomits or explodes to spray survivors. Getting hit by the substance will not only temporarily blind survivors, but it drive the zombie horde into a feeding frenzy? The tank is just that; he's a brick of a zombie that can take an enormous amount of damage and dish out a fair amount. And finally, there's the witch; she's an enormously powerful zombie that can take down a survivor with a single swipe.

Now, if i had to say somthing bad about Left 4 dead, it's that the fact that there are only four scenarios, which is a small number to wrap your head around, and you can play through a scenario in 20 or 30 minutes on the normal difficulty setting. On higher difficulty settings, it'll take longer since you'll die a lot, requiring restarts at the beginning or the most recent safe house that you've reached. Granted, the four scenarios are highly replayable, you could play them over and over again and events unfold differently. There are two reasons for that. The first is the built-in "director" system that manages the action. If you're doing well, it will throw more zombies, like a sadistic dungeon master in a game of Dungeons & Dragons. If you're doing badly, it might decide to ease up on you a bit by providing health kits and ammunition. The second reason is simple human nature. It's a blast to play with others, but it can also be a hilarious experience, as well as a slightly frustrating one at times.

There's absolutely no doubt that Left 4 Dead is one of the most social and exciting multiplayer games that I’ve ever played. It's almost pitch perfect in how it captures the tension and the action of most zombie movies. This is an incredible and highly replayable multiplayer experience that's definitely worth checking out, especially if you're looking to prepare yourself for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.