| dtewi said: What are Left 4 Dead about? |
I am going to give a short synopsis but you need to read this. There are 2 parts to it and it fully explains most of the game setup.
Ok basically the game is a zombie survival game...only you can play as either zombies...or survirors. The survivors are trying to make it from point A to point B and just trying to survive, depending on the level they are usually trying to escape to a safe area. The zombies are just trying to see that these pesky immune survivors die a horrible gruesome death..and preferably a death that has them trembling in fear.
The game involves obviously 4 survivors played by humans and ideally 4 boss zombies played by humans. The fun part is that there are tons of regular zombies who spawn throughout the level...and the really fun part is the spawning is completely procedural. What this means is that the game attempts to measure the fear, excitement, stress, etc...of the survivors based on what is happening and how they are doing and it uses this information to control where, when, and how many zombies spawn. The result is that you will have lulls where you are in fear of the next attack and highs where you are engrossed in the fight for your life...literally...but most important of all this means that you can play the same level 20...30....50...100 times and still not learn the spawn locations...because they don't have spawn locations...it is completely random..not partially..completely random.
edit: part of the procedural spawning of the normal zombies includes the spawning of the Boss Infected....which is what the humans play. These "Boss Infected" have special abilities that they can use to terrify, confuse, and hopefully kill the survivors with and they also have a whole other area outside of the "survivor portion" that they can access. Zombies see green outlines of claw marks and cracks in walls where they are allowed to climb verticle surfaces and break through walls etc...this allows the zombies to have a freedom of movement outside of the areas available to the survivors and gives them a lot of options for ambushing and stragizing against their enemies.
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