Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360)

I've never really enjoyed survival horror games, in spite of my life-long love of horror films. All those Resident Evils were just too complicated - too much stupid stuff to do between bouts of zombie killing. All I really want to do is shoot thing - puzzles, save points and missions are not my bag. Which is why Left 4 Dead is currently my favourite shooty game. It's beautifully uncomplicated. You and your teammates have to make it from point A to point B, and that's it. Yes, there are zombies (or rather, 'infected') who want to stop you, but you're not trying to cure them, find out why they're zombies, or anything else. All you're trying to do is survive; ...  Read the complete review

Let me put this game into perspective, this one of the few games where I've actually started to shake when the game loads up. I knew this game was going to be good, but how good? The idea behind Left 4 Dead is simple, 4 characters, lots of zombies, lots of guns and one aim.....survive. I'm amazed this game hasn't been made before; it was always going to be a huge hit. Maybe previous consoles and computers couldn't handle a game of this quality. Left 4 Dead contains 4 chapters, of which each chapter is split into 5 levels. Each chapter is set in a different area and can take anything between 40 minutes to an hour to complete. Before each chapter loads you are ...  Read the complete review

Day 13 It's been two weeks since the outbreak. Forgive me if I don't feel like celebrating the anniversary. The zombies are showing no signs of giving up - they're still too fast, there's still too many of them. They keep on coming, wave after goddamn stinkin' wave. Now there's only four of us left, and we're stuck on this rooftop, overlooking streets packed with these freaks ripping corpses to bits. How I survived, I haven't got a clue. Dumb luck, I guess. I'm just Louis the computer geek. The others, I can understand a little more - Bill, he's an old man but he's fought in more wars than I knew ever happened... Francis, I think he's the only guy ...  Read the complete review

Left 4 Dead is a First Person Shooter game created by the game studio Valve, the same people who brought us Portal, Team Fortress and the epic Half-Life series. Needless to say expectations of this game were extremely high... ------- Story ------- The events of Left 4 Dead are set in present day America, when a contagious virus has broken out and a zombie horde has spawned itself across the globe. It is your job as one of the four immune survivors to run away as fast as possible. The game has 4 different chapters, each with a different setting and each chapter is divided into 5 different acts; each act may take 10-20 minutes depending on ...  Read the complete review

We've nearly made it to the safe room, back-peddling and guns blazing. I can hear the onrushing infected, so I throw down a defensive Molotov at the mouth of the bridge. I'm injured and without a medpack, so they'll easily chase me down. Through the flames dozens of the horde emerge, alight but still standing. Surely we'll make it now. One of my team mates is pounced on by a Hunter; I beat it off and pump three shotgun rounds into its chest. I haul my downed comrade up and we continue the long limp to the safe room. 100 yards to go. The ground starts to tremble. Our opposition have a Tank - surely not - we're so close. Through the flames the Tank stomps - a tonne of ...  Read the complete review