You should believe by now that I never get enough of L4D.
Per my Twitter, every few tweets I mentioned about L4D-ing.
I am damn hooked! Not kidding, I am like thinking of it everytime, I think it can be on par on how much I think of Jason everyday. LOL!
Since it has been long that I love to do something consistently, this game definitely worth a single post here.
From L4D…….
TO
L4D2
For people who don’t know and know nuts about Lan Game (Not that I know a lot, I only know how to play CounterStrike and L4D), L4D is a cooperative shooter survival horror game. Mark the word : Cooperative.
Cooperative to me is teamwork (my head is screaming about how much teamwork is being taught and meant to us back in the good old airline days).
To me, what makes up a good teamwork is to have/ be:
1) Good Communication Skill among teammates. In this case of playing L4D, this can be carry out more effectively if the person is beside you, like friends playing together in a Lan Shop. Most of the time if I got infected by the zombies and need help, I will call for it! So most of the time when I am in a lan shop with Jason, you will hear me crying: ” Dear, 救我 !!! “ And when he wants me to follow him and walk, he will say: “Dear, 走这边, 走那边” LOL. But, if you are playing with people whom you don’t know, it might be hard because you need to think of the shortest sentence to type if you want to communicate as most of the time you will be busy!
2) Don’t think like an individual. That is not to be selfish! Sometimes if you want to ‘chiong’ too fast infront without waiting for your teammates, you will end up getting a Jockey riding on you or a Hunter pouncing on you without help because you are too far ahead! Vice-versa, if your teammates need help behind and you are too far away, the chances that they can survive is lesser. Therefore, “stick together team” is very important!
3) Willing to share information and knowledge. Just like Jason knows better than Owen and me in regards to the road to walk, the usage and the location of the Melee Weapons and guns, he will always tell/ remind us. Once again, that is provided that we all play together in a Lan Shop. However, if we take turn to play at home, he will activate his ‘naggy-self’ and preach about how you should play and where you should walk when he observe you from behind. Pretty irritating at times but I love his helpfulness. LOL! =p
If you ask me, I prefer to play in Lan Shop as we can play together as a team. Playing at home is good as well as it served as a good training ground and not so much of noise distraction. However, I still love the interactivity that you and your friends shared when in a Lan Shop. I still remember I will chid Owen whenever he do something idiotic in the game like he walks too fast or he startled the witch or he activated the horde of Zombies. I haven’t have the chance to play L4D2 with him together yet but he did completed all the campaigns together with me in L4D1. Nevertheless, he will always find chance to play at Jason’s place one la, even in the midst of their work!
Cast of L4D2
Nick, Rochelle, Coach and Ellis
Yeah, I always use Rochelle just like during L4D1 that I am always on Zoey. Actually, the characters are not much different, it doesn’t mean whoever is better or stronger than another.
There are a total of 5 campaigns:
Dead Center, Hard Rain, Dark Carnival, Swamp Fever, The Parish.
Not very proud to say, I have only completed 2 campaigns so far – Dark Carnival and The Parish. HAHA! I did play the other campaigns but didn’t finish them. Both Dark Carnival and The Parish are completed in the Lan Shop. I particularly like the Dark Carnival because it happens in an amusement park. You can see clowns, roller coaster and bumper cars! I love the last stage where you have to set the stage light, play the fireworks and on the music!
” Dark Carnival”
As for The Parish, the finale is one of a harder kind. Last Saturday in Lan Shop, Jason & I played with some others from the server and all of us took more than one and a half hour to clear it. We were dead many many times. Even when it was completed, it was only Jason who survived in the end. The rest of us were all dead! From there, it boils down to teamwork again. It is really hard to communicate with others whom are not physically together with us; unless you use a headset and talk to each other!
Finale Scene in the ” The Parish”
New Special Infected Characters in L4D2
Apart from the usual gang: Smoker, Hunter, Boomer, Witch and the invincible Tank, there are 3 members that gave you pain – in – the – ass feeling all the time when you meet them were added to the family.
1) The Charger - Knocks down survivors and is capable of picking up a survivor and smashing him/her into the ground which only another survivor can free him/her from. The Charger is much tougher than the other Special Infected (besides the Witch and Tank) and I think it resembles Tank abit, thus I name it the Mini Tank! HaHa!
2) The Spitter - Designed to spit at survivors with acid and poison. The damage inflicted will deal damage over a period of time. I particularly HATE the Spitter because my health will decrease tremendously if I gotten the acid. It can make me die really fast! Or was it only me? LOL!
3) The Jockey - A kind of crazed infected that has the ability to control survivors into dangerous situations and move you further away from your teammates. He is pretty irritating when he ride on my back because I lost the ability to control my movement!
Oh ya, and the Witch!! Now, they not only sit and cry on the ground, they move around before getting spooked! It is a more ‘improved version’ as they wander among the zombies, just try to be more alert and not startle them if you have been warned of their existence. Jason told me that you can use an axe/ chainsaw to kill them almost instantly and a shot gun is the best weapon in killing them. I actually quite like the crying and moaning sound of the Witch, it sounded very much alike to a human crying, very very sadly and scary!
Actually, all the sound from the spawns sounded so disgusting and scary! Some are like vomiting, screeching, yelling and hissing. Make my hairs stand at times!
New Added Feature – Melee Weapons
In L4D1, the secondary weapon for the character is a pistol. It is either you can have one or two pistols whenever you feel like alternating it between your primary weapon. Here in L4D2, you can change your secondary pistol to Melee Weapons.
However, if you are incapacitated with only a melee weapon, you magically pull out a pistol while you are on the ground, so you ALWAYS have a pistol.
And amazingly, Melee Weapons are good for me to use at times! Especially when there is a ‘Incoming Attack’.
1 – Axe (My second favourite, it works well !)
2 – Guitar (Hmm, LOL !)
3 – Katana Sword & Machete (My favourite! Can really killllll !!)
4 – Crowbar (Haven’t got the chance to use)
5 – Chainsaw (Good to use but it is electric operated)
6 – Frying Pan (Eh.. not really good to use but it is so WTH and funny la~!!)
Some of the melee weapons are dumb… like a guitar and frying pan? But whatever, still fun!
My Overall Review of the Game
I love this sequel better. The main attractions to me are the new levels, more immersive combat (having an infected jump on your head and start gnawing it is truly agitating) and of course, even more lashings of blood. Slicing and dicing your way through the hordes of zombies is great fun, especially when you get up close for some macro mincing, and the limbs start flying! Shiokness! The new zombies are fun and frightening too.
But the new horde events are hellish. If you did not make it a point to stop them then there is no end to the zombies, just kept coming. Sometimes when it gets too chaotic, I will just forget it and run for my live!
Though I have yet to complete Dead Center, Swamp Fever and Hard Rain, I am fairly satisfied with the other 2 campaigns that I had completed. I might just blog about L4D2 again once I have completed the other campaigns and tried other modes. This post here is very general and there are still hell loads of things to mention about L4D2.
There are still Versus and Scavange mode that I have yet to play with. Seen Jason played as the spawns before in Versus mode, very interesting. I will try it soon but let me clear and get familiar with the campaigns first. Swamp Fever and Hard Rain seem awesome though! I had tried some of the chapters, challenging!
So far, L4D2 is really a fuckton of fun. More campaigns, more gameplay modes, more enemies, more variety in both your weapons and your enemies, more story, more well-rounded characters! If you love gore, thrill, zombies and bloody scenes like me, you have got to try this game!
To end this post, found some funny photos of the game.
Cartoon Characters
Spitter & Witch (both suddenly became so chio!)
HaHa, Look at the Boomer & Spitter on the top left hand side, holding hands.
Boomer. Actually the Boomer in the game is also quite cute because he is so fat that the way he walk is funny, and the burping/ vomitting sound he made is hilarious more to scary!
LOL! Ellis is saying about one of the scene in one of the chapter in “Dark Carnival” !
Nick having blind date with the Witch and her forte is really crying sadly!!
HAHAHA Ellis riding on Jockey instead of another way round~
Spitter saying herself dead sexy. -_-”
Infected Characters saying Merry X’MAS !!!
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