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Turtle Rock and Valve Announce Left 4 DeadCo-operative Multiplayer Action From the Makers of Counter-StrikeNovember 20, 2006 - Turtle Rock Studios and Valve today announce Left 4 Dead, a co-operative multiplayer action game from the makers of Counter-Strike."By leveraging its industry-leading AI technology and years of Counter-Strike development experience, Turtle Rock is building upon the elements that make Counter-Strike successful and applying them to Left 4 Dead," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "What Counter-Strike did for multiplayer action games, Left 4 Dead will do for co-op games."Left 4 Dead is built atop the most advanced version of the Source Engine and introduces version 2 of Turtle Rock's artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology.Left 4 Dead will debut on the PC in 2007
Left 4 Dead feels like one of those games that was always about to happen. It's you and your friends versus a city of rabid mutant zombies." Left 4 Dead will hurl four survivor players into a mad world of apocalyptic horror and crazy dead people, asking them to complete objectives while facing a motley zombie horde including scary running zombies, horrible tongue-flicking smokey zombies, jumping leaping hunting zombies, fat hideous bubbling zombies and even huge hulking tanking zombies. But that's not all: the horde will be controlled by an AI 'director' and additional players can leap in to control undead avatars at any point. No screenshots are available as yet.
Turtle Rock is building upon the elements that make Counter-Strike successful and applying them to Left 4 Dead.
Count me out.
Ditto. I hate counter-strike. It was awesome back in the beta days just coz it was new and unique (plus it was actually a bit more tactical). After the version 1.0 it just turned into a 'Quake with real guns' frenzy, and I lost all interest.
Exactly. Before I converted my former roommates into Wolf fanatics like me, they played CS 1.5 and 1.6. I watched them play and they played this map called iceworld that didn't even have an objective. It was just team DM.
I love cs. I don't get why everybody hates it so much. So what if it isn't realistic, it's fucking fun.
That's one thing I loved about RTCW:ET, the varied multiplayer and objectives! I don't mind Team DM every once in a while, but I prefer having rounds with objectives. That why I loved Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon multiplayer (Well, I loved R6 way more than GR, but more people had and enjoyed GR where I live so we all had good times). Usually I'm either a scout (light and fast) or a sniper monkey (hang out and cover the boys as they move in, too much fun ). Damn, now I really feel like some tactical gaming!
Alright your all complaining about CS... this isnt CS, this a new game that doesnt sound anything like CS. Its going to be made by a team that contributed to CS. I will admit that I never did get into CS either because it was just straight team deathmatch that just bored me... but your all just dismissing something just because it has a vague link to a game with a simple design that doesnt really have any bad implications on said dev team. I agree, fuck CS, but I'll be all about something with a new premise that sounds a hell of a lot better than CS.
Does it matter though? I hated Counter-Strike. Every part of it. The purchasing weapons, the AWP, the leaping around, the cheating... those are all elements of Counter-Strike too.I'd prefer it if they said, "In no way is this game anything like Counter-Strike at all. In fact, if you hate Counter-Strike, you'll love this!" But no. That's not what they said.
