Portal 2: New Trailer

Here's the deal.... Valve, you make great games.  How about you put some work into the long awaited Half Life series?  Seriously it has been years!  Are you guys on the Starcraft 2 schedule?!?!  I suppose in the meantime we call all settle for Portal 2.  The first Portal game was bundled with my Half Life purchase and affectionately called the "Orange Box".  I was way more into the FPS side of things; shooting aliens and robots was way more exciting than holes in walls and jumping through them.  Anywho, I know a lot of the kids are into this sort of thing, so enjoy the trailer.  Maybe you'll find some cake?

Left 4 Dead: Crash Course

In preparation for Left 4 Dead 2 coming out in the next few months, the good people at Valve have released an extra bonus level called Crash Course. 

As you can see in the video the new level takes place after No Mercy, with the assumption the helicopter that saved you had an infected pilot.  As a bonus DLC style level, the map isn't too bad.  I'll also add that it wasn't anything great either.  It feels like just about every other map in L4D with lots of empty buildings and a hand full of shipping containers.  Empty streets filled with infected and the occasional bottle of pills or extra pistol.  Simply put, its nothing new. 

There is an added achievement called Tank Stumble which consists of exploding a propane tank within the close proximity of "The Tank" and causing him to stumble.  The other newish type feature is during the finale assault before the rescue there is a generator that must be started.  It takes a few seconds and then the lights come on and the Horde follows.  You go through the typical volleys of Horde and all the specials and then after a Tank rolls through you have to restart the generator.  Why?  I have no idea, but it gives a few more seconds before the rescue vehicle comes.  Yes, the rescue vehicle looks like an ice cream truck fashioned with a cattle pusher (with evil looking teeth) and lots of weapons.

So overall is it worth it?  Well if you own a PC, download it for free through Steam; so yes, go get it now.  If you are an XBOX360 user you can pony up about $8 for the new map, and if you are a die hard fan it is worth the money (casual players, not so much so).  In all honesty this game got me playing L4D again (I haven't played in probably 5 months), and I sparked a little excitement for L4D 2. 

Left 4 Dead 2!!!

It really doesn't get much better than blasting your way through the zombie apocalypse using copious amounts of fire power with the aid of a few friends.  Left 4 Dead has become one of my all time favorite first person shooters, and I'm pleased to tell you all about the Left 4 Dead 2!!!!!!!

Video Games | Left 4 Dead 2 | E3 09: Debut Teaser

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

As you can see in the above teaser, Left 4 Dead 2 takes place in the South.  The quest spans from Savannah. Georgia all the way to the New Orleans French Quarter.  We are introduced to a whole new cast of survivors, melee weapons (axe, chainsaw, frying pan, bat, etc.), boss zombies, and new campaigns/maps.  This game will be all around badass, and yes the Tank is now wearing overalls

Video Games | Left 4 Dead 2 Multiplayer Gameplay

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Here is some actual game play footage.  I'm not quite digging the southern style score with the fiddle blaring away during intense actions scenes, but I'm assuming it will grow on me. The melee weapons appear to be awesome in actual combat, and will be a nice replacement to constantly shoving the infected back.  Did anyone else catch the characters in the white HAZMAT suites?  I'm guessing these might be CEDA workers trying to quell the infected, which would then make me wonder if they would also be trying to attack the survivors.

Left 4 Dead 2 will be released in November for XBOX 360 and PC.  Btw, if you are still playing the original Left 4 Dead on PC, hit me up via Twitter and well kill some zombies together.

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Left 4 Dead movie? Er... Left 5 Dead?

So I heard a rumor of this mysterious "Left 5 Dead", a potential for a live action movie, with a handful of stills floating around the nets.  As much as I wanted this to be true, I had horrific flash backs to every video game movie I had ever seen ("Street Fighter", "Mario Brothers", "Mortal Kombat", I could keep going...). 

Well, through the magic of the Internets, I have now seen the stills collection and they are pretty awesome! I would love to see a (well produced) Left 5 Dead movie, but don't ever really see this happening.  I did a little research and found out that L5D is in fact a photographic novel.  You can find out some more information at their official site, Night Zero.  This is a fan made "photo novel" and all the more proof that if you make quality products for your consumers they will love you for it. Take note Hollywood, if you do something like this (well produced content with the intention of making your consumers happy) your audience might pay to see your movies and not pirate them.

I purchased Left 4 Dead (PC version) around January and I really can't get enough of it.  This game is so fantastically well made and the game play/replay-ability is near epic.  I can't remember the last time a I played a game that held my attention span for such a great length of time (COD4 was a good contender).  This game has developed such a gigantic fan base with folks that would take time to make a photo novel like Night Zero. Btw, if you haven't played or heard of L4D, it is a game where you kill zombies.  There is so much more to be said but that is really all you need to know, and must experience the rest.

Go purchase L4D, and take a look at Night Zero's project.  You will be very impressed with both :)