Thursday, December 10, 2009

Left 4 Dead 2

Alright, since I do not want to learn my new chinese characters I decided to give you an overview of my exp so far with the game!
First of all: It ROCKS! Alright, I used to say that about Aion as well and didnt like it that much after endless sessions of grinding at all, but L4D2 is just awesome!!
If you were a fan of the first L4D you will for sure love the 2nd one since it has a lot more weapons (like the Ak-47, nice sniper guns and some Tactical Shotguns just to mention a few) and also introduced the melee weapons! So my first question was: Ta fuck, I am play a shooter, why should I use a katana, guitar or chainsaw to fight those zombies? Answer is easy: Best to use those low range weapons when a boomer got you and the horde is coming for you! Just swing your weapon all the time and you wont get and or at least little dmg!! Great idea!
But of cause the most interesting new features are the new zombies. There are 3 of them called Charger, Jockey and Spitter!
First the charger: He looks like an overgrown 14 year old boy who made too often use of his right hand in special moments. Left hand tiny and weak, right hand overgrown muscle "weapon" which he uses to grap a survivor while charging at them (Yeah, thats where the name comes from) and dragging them away of the other survivors! He does incredible amount of dmg once he took one victim with him and bouncing it constantly on the ground! Also the charger can be used tactically since he gives all survivors which stand in his way a body check knocking them on the ground. Quite useful in stressful moments! But all those with all those benefits there is of cause a disadvantage: Once you started the to charge your toon runs just straight and if you fail to grap one survivor because your aim wasnt good enough you are an easy victim for the bullets of the other team.
Then there is the Jockey. I am quite indifferent to that zombie! In some moments he can be great in others he is just useless. But first to explain his attack! That little creepy zombie runs up close to a survivor and jumps on his/her back which makes you able to "control" the victims movement and dealing constant dmg. So it is great fun to lead it into fire or let it fall out of the window or a cliff! Bad moments are when the survivors are walking in "teamwalk" so none of them is alone or stays behind. Then it is almost impossible to jump on one.
At last there is the Spitter! She looks like a 12 year old, very VERY ugly girl and spits toxic out of her mouth! I have to admit: That is my totally favourite zombie of all!! Because best idea to spit at is in rooms where the survivors have to go through or cant get out too fast! So you deal a great amount of dmg for about 15 seconds! And the best of all, the longer your victims stand in your "spit" the more dmg they get. Also great idea is: If one of the survivors is already knocked out and laying on the ground and on of the others is trying the poor devil up: Spit on them and you got 2 persons knocked out!! :D
Of cause there are lots of nice combinations now: first use the good old boomer in a closed room with all survivors in it. Then spit in the room for dot dmg since they cant get out too fast with all the horde around them and at last grap one with a jockey and lead them back in the spit for imber dmg!! Just love such moments!!