Ok, I'll come out and say it...I was getting bored with the Left 4 Dead demo...and while playing on Advanced, it didn't exactly pack a huge punch.  Expert was crazy fun, but maybe just a little too hard...it's not fun when you're seriously raging about friendly fire or a couple punches from regular zombies.  But this was the game I had been waiting for, for about 2 years, but I mean, I could see why some people didn't exactly dig it.

But after playing through one full campaign, No Mercy, with 3 of my friends...I can't see how the naysayers can refute the awesomeness that is Left 4 Dead.

We actually had to switch to Normal cause we were suckin it up so much...we got ripped apart by a Tank, puked on by countless Boomers...and the maps get much more interesting past the demo levels as well.

But the thing that just sold me completely, after all the intense fighting and swearing because people left me to die, or keep running ahead too far, was the epic finale.  A last stand on the hospital rooftop with a chaingun and tons of zombies coming at you, a bunch of Hunters, Smokers, and Boomers, and then a Tank.  We did ok, we had most of our health and healthpacks after it.  Then came another wave, with even more zombies, more boss infected, and ANOTHER Tank.  SERIOUSLY. 

After all that, the helicopter finally arrived, one of us had been killed by the Tank, the rest of us had only 30 or so health each.  Then, a Hunter pounced on one of my friends, a Smoker grabbed my other friend way far away, and ANOTHER Tank came bustin in the place!  AGHAHGHH!!  We somehow managed to pull all 3 of us together and simply ran like hell for the chopper, and we got away. 

The credits rolled, the movie was in memory of our dead friend, and after all the stat credits rolled up, it made sure to tell us that 2,383 zombies were killed in the making of this movie.

Seriously.  Awesome.  And it took us about 2 hours to get through the whole campaign...got another 3 campaigns to play later!

interesting, i got to try L4D.

spoiler?..

i want to get it also

No?  Not really...other than the fact that the Hospital campaign ends on top of the hospital, there's nothing to spoil.  The game is different every time, finales always involves craploads of boss infecteds and tanks though.

i still cant get over how good the demo is!!!

I second that, this game is HUGE, GOTY material right there, it stands head, shoulders, and torso above any other game that has come out, even WOTLK (imo a great quality expansion). We called it a night just as we called the elevator up, holed ourselves in a closet, then BOOM, they attacked from behind. We lasted for a good minute but then we started dropping, and when we thought everything was calm I went to pick up the last survivor besides me that wasn't dead a smoker came out of nowhere and BOOM. We called it a night cause we have classes though. This is true co-op at its finest.

Oh man, trust me...play again tomorrow and finish that finale...it is just epic beyond words.

I'm tempted to ty it with a pug, but really wanna be there when we do this. On another note, the Auto shotgun absolutely rocks, my favorite weapon of the beginning ones by far. It's interesting how my group plays out, we have the sniper and the 2 assaults so it's absolutely perfect.

I'm gonna try versus to finish up the night, just the first few levels, I don't want to spoil myself at all.