Devan B. gave it a0:
I really, really hate this game. I've been waiting for this game for months, and Valve gives me this? I will admit that the graphics are nice, but that's where the good things end. Here is a list of my problems with this game: #1: There is no replay value. It's kind of funny how this game was built for replay value and it DOESN'T HAVE ANY! I played this game for about two hours and I was bored to tears. The first level looked pretty promising, but by the time I finished the second level, the game began to lose its initial appeal. First of all, the game has six guns, that's it, and only five of them are worth using (the hunting rifle sucks). Second of all, the game follows a cookie-cutter formula for every level: blast your way through hordes of zombies (which isn't challenging or fun at all) and then push a button or open a door which calls more hordes of zombies which are not any more fun to kill. This will get you to another part of the level where you fight more hordes of zombies. Every once and a while, you will encounter a "boss zombie". Wow, that sounds exciting! It's not, you don't really have to change your tactics (gun it down) for any of the boss zombies except for the Boomer (which is shove and then gun him down). Eventually, you will get to the end of the level, but it doesn't really feel like an accomplishment because it wasn't challenging at all. #2: The game is not scary at all. There are a load of other FPS games available for just about every gaming system out today, a lot of these games are good, and I could have bought a number of them instead of this awful, awful game, but I thought this game would be scary, and boy, do I like a good scary video game. Unfortunately, I was mistaken. Zombies are incredibly easy to kill, even on the hardest difficulty mode, and you are able to carry way too much ammo. Also, the weapons you get are waaaaay too powerful, last time I checked automatic shotgun + assault rifle > zombie horde. Take Resident Evil, make the zombies god awful, give yourself the rocket launcher with infinite ammo, and allow four people to play it at the same time and you have an experience much life Left 4 Dead. This kinda ties in with reason #3 because, since your survival is pretty much ensured, you don't really have to wonder what's around that next corner or what's in the shadows in the corner because, whatever it is, you can kill it with hardly any effort. #3: The game is way to freaking easy. Even the hardest difficulty setting is easy in Left 4 Dead. If the game was Left 1 Dead then the current difficulty level would be appropriate, but with four players (of any skill level) the game is laughably easy. The health of the zombies hardly changes at all in between difficulty levels and, as long as you keep them away from you, they are just as easy to gun down. I really hope these three reasons are enough to stop you from getting this game, I really do (I could give you several more, such as how the story sucks, but I won't for the sake of readability). I would not wish this game on anybody. Remember how repetitive Assassin's creed was? Multiply that by sixteen and you have Left 4 Dead. Come on, six guns?! Some of you who already own the game may say things like "But there's an AI director that makes the game different every time you play it", and that may be true, but how different? All the AI director does is change the position of some enemies, I really could never tell any difference from one play to the next. I just want to tell everyone who reads this that this game is god awful and you should not get it. If you HAVE to get this game, rent it, you will be happy that I saved you forty bucks. To sum it up, I am very sorely disappointed in this game and I plan to return it or trade it in ASAP.