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Left 4 Dead 2 Announced For November
hansamurai writes "Left 4 Dead 2 has been announced at E3, and a trailer for the game has surfaced. It will be released November 17, 2009, just a year after the first game. Gameplay changes include a new focus on melee weapons, especially the iconic anti-zombie weapon, the chainsaw. The cast of characters is brand new, but the plot appears to take place during the same zombie outbreak."
The game is being developed for the PC and Xbox 360, and Valve says it will make use of a new version of their AI engine, which has the ability to "procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players' performance." Rock, Paper, Shotgun got the chance to do a hands-on preview, providing details about the gameplay and confirming that "it's a coherent new imagining of the game, this time bigger, smarter, and far more elaborate. Oh, and gloriously more gory."
L4D is designed for the PC. Playing it on the moronbox is not going to be anywhere near as fun.
Multiplayer is free on the PC, too.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
Don't worry, this is Valve, it will be delayed until 2012.
No.. it will release on time, it will simply be buggy and problematic for the first year.
L4D was hardly usable for quite some time and is STILL buggy to this day, but obviously they don't care.. they got the $$$.
Nowadays, if you buy a game in its first year of release, you're paying to beta/bug test it. From what I've seen, only a few game companies (namely japanese ones) have the gumption to release a truly viable product.