RUN!!! and shoot!

Hey all, how are things? Life treating you well? I'm here in my batcave writing me a program to blink some LEDs...sure, it's not fabulous, but still kind of amazing in and of itself.

Anyways, been keeping up with my gaming news and one in particular has come under my radar...

LEFT 4 DEAD

It's quite simple, you're one of four people who find themselves in a zombie apocalypse! I believe there are a series of four missions with different objectives in which you have to consistently beat the onrush of zombies.

Things become more hectic in that there exists this somewhat enigmatic figure called "The Director" which I'm not quite sure weather or not has an in game avatar...or if it's just an AI. Regardless, it dictates when / where the zombie rush will come and seems to know the right time to hit you and quite unexpectidely.

To add to the craziness, there are four types of "boss" zombies, which are playable in a 4 vs. 4 match where teams take turns playing as survivors or infected. Even while playing only as survivors these badies come up. Apparently, the infected act as griefers, dashing the hopes and dreams of the survivors. For example, when all is quiet and you've strayed a little to the left of your team, BAM! you get pounced on by "the Hunter."

Here's the intro clip:

Left 4 Dead 'Intro' clip

Left 4 Dead 'Tank' clip

If any are interested, the demo is up on steam.

I've been following the game via Rock, Paper, Shotgun (RPS). Here are some articles that really perked my interest in the game:

Walkthrough of the Left 4 Dead Dead Air campaign.
A narrative of the RPS team's adventures in versus mode.
Some first impressions of the game.

I'm planning on trying the demo out first, because I don't know if my hardware will take much of a liking to a zombie apocalypse. Luckily, the game is developed using the source engine which as we all know, works fairly well on some older hardware. Now let's see if def was able to download it, LOL!

Horror Dump!

It's october! Guess that means it's time for all things creepy, horrific, and "dark" to come to the consciousness of everyone in the world. So I've decided to bring the cup community a little something to get the ball rolling.

First, for all you RE fans, here are some VERY cool trailers for RE5. I never did play through 4, but I know everyone else here has either directly or vicariously. I put myself in the later category.

Anyways, here's an official RE 5 trailer:


Here's an unnofcial trailer which shows a some gameplay...looks hectic to say the least.


I personally think it looks like they're taking the formula created for RE4 and pushing it forward. I mean, with all the added military stuff and crazy mob fights, looks intense. But I must say, what's up with Wesker turning into Neo? Meh, guess he's been going that way for sometime.

The following trailer is for a game called "Dead Space," which released yesterday. Pretty much, it looks like someone decided it would be a good idea to make a game out of Event Horizon. It does look rather freaky.

Dead Space 'Launch' trailer

So there you go, zombies in space and in Haiti. I guess the zombie craze is just getting started.

Hehehe... zombies...

Anyone need to stock up on zombie apocalypse survival kits?
Gogogo!