If you’ve ever visited our lovely li’l forum you will no doubt notice the huge Left 4 Dead thread, and if you dare venture into it you’ll clearly see that some of us here at Ready Up have a bit of a “thing” for the wonderfully satisfying zombie filled shooter. So much so that it’s possibly one of the only threads that hasn’t been derailed… much. But come on, we’re only human, I don’t know how any FPS fan could not fall in love with Left 4 Dead. For a start, it’s made by Valve. Valve, to me, equals WIN. I would sell my soul to the devil to get my hands on Half-Life 2 episode 3 right now! *looks up, no sign of the devil, feels sad* I love Left 4 Dead because it is just so very very “Valvey”, clever and brilliant in every way. Except for one, well, actually, four.
I’m not going to go into it, I’ll annoy myself, and we’ve discussed and blogged about it many times before but OMFG! Why why why why why are Bill, Francis, Louis and Zoey so useless? How they ever managed to stay alive before we came along and started controlling their actions I will never know! It’s almost as if Valve, made them so infuriatingly rubbish at the very game they were created to dwell in because they wanted us to play with friends and, eeeeew, socialise!
So that’s what we did, Wednesday nights became Ready Up’s Left 4 Dead night, and much fun was had by all, pouncing, smoking, head-popping, fire-starting fun! But there was always talk of the promised DLC, new maps and a new challenge, “Survival!” How excited were we on L4D DLC day? Well let me tell you, LOADS! In Survival mode, wave after wave of infected swarm at you from every angle. All you have to do is stay alive for as long as you can. It’s like the inevitable ending to almost every zombie story ever told. The lift never opens, the APC doesn’t turn up, the chopper never arrives to whisk you away to safety. The world is entirely over-run, it’s so unfair, they’re not allowed to be that fast y’know!? The screaming horde won’t stop advancing and you just know you’re not gonna make it out alive, but you keep on trying, you keep on killing, you keep on surviving.
The survival instinct is strong in us all, never surrender, never give up. Keep planting bullets in those undead bastards til you’re flattened by a flaming tank, defend your team-mates from the onslaught of claws and tongues and vomit til you can carry on no longer and melee spam until… wait!? What!? Melee fatigue!? Noooo, that type of thing causes incaps! Downed on the ground alone, two tiny pistols against a swarm of zombies tearing at your flesh will result in certain doom but even then, after death, don’t ever quit, keep mashing RT, I’m sure it helps! And anyway, if you do find yourself struggling to make an impact on those leaderboards, you could always take a bit of advice from these two Ready Uppers –
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