Gnizmo said:
Dallinor said:
I would not even include L4D in the top 20. A zombie shooting FPS in the top 7 best new IP's?
COD:WAW's zombie mode was better then L4D in terms of a zombie shooter IMO.
The rest of the list isn't bad.
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That is overly dismissive of what Left 4 Dead actually offers though. It is not the shooting zombies aspect that is appealing. It is a game being based around 4 player co-op survival that is good. It does an interesting take on the zombie apocalypse while emphasizing the truth that you would have to work together to ever hope to survive. Still I wouldn't put it in the top 7, but it would easily make top 20 new franchises simply because there haven't been that many great franchises.
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To suggest that shooting zombies holds no appeal is ridiculous. It's the main draw of the game. Do you think a four player apple picking survival game would sell as well?
Zombies are the flavor of the past few years. Read Dead Redemption, Yakuza, Call Of Duty they're all including 'zombie modes' as a result of the strong appeal of the modes to gamers, and the fact that they sell well.
Perhaps out of the top 20 was a bit of an exaggeration, I'd need to sit down and review all the top contenders, but after my time with L4D, I wasn't very impressed.
