Left 4 Dead, Valve's reinvigoration of the survival horror genre, will, according to Valve's Doug Lombardi, be given a simultaneous worldwide release in November, on both 360 and PC. The game's essentially ready now, but Valve are taking their time to tweak and twiddle and make sure everything's perfect. That just makes me love Valve more.

If you haven't heard about the game, it's an online multiplayer zombie thriller, where four people take on the role of survivors, and the rest play as the flesh eating undead. If it was anyone else making the game, that would probably sound unbalanced and horribly unfair, but Valve have proved with TF2 just how good they are at weighting the scales evenly.

Left 4 Dead is most certainly one to look out for, the dynamic between the infected and the survivors sounds interesting. Add to that the super zombies, which not only look awesome, but can change the direction of a game in seconds.


It's odd how a multiplayer only game seems to be the closest we've ever seen to a zombie film come to life. Resident Evil and its ilk are all well and good, but one person surviving against a whole city of zombies sometimes feels just a little too convenient. Left 4 Dead is bringing the terror back, setting humankind on the back foot and telling them to run.

Source Shacknews.com