Thursday, October 8th 2009
Valve Announces Left 4 Dead 2 Scavenge Mode
Valve, creator of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Scavenge, the fourth game mode to be included in its upcoming zombie thriller, Left 4 Dead 2.
Scavenge mode challenges players to compete in round-based games of up to 8 players (Survivors vs. Infected). The Survivors must battle both the Infected and the clock as they collect gas cans to refuel a generator located in each map. Every can the Survivors pour into the generator scores their team a point and adds time to the clock.
On defense, the Infected team plays as the boss Infected (including the new Spitter, Jockey, and Charger). They must keep the Survivors from fueling the generator by attacking them, destroying the gas cans, or running out the clock. During a round, each team gets an opportunity to play both sides, with the round going to whichever team successfully delivers the most cans.
Coming exclusively to Xbox 360 and PC, L4D2 promises to set a new benchmark for co-operative action games and become one of 2009's marquee titles. Set for release on November 17, the title adds melee combat to enable deeper co-operative gameplay, with items such as a chainsaws, frying pans, axes, baseball bats, and more.
L4D2 also introduces the AI Director 2.0, adding the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players' performance. The result is a unique game session custom-fitted to provide a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience each time the game is played.
Finally, with new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original, featuring more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, new Survival maps, and a brand new competitive mode all available at launch.
Scavenge mode challenges players to compete in round-based games of up to 8 players (Survivors vs. Infected). The Survivors must battle both the Infected and the clock as they collect gas cans to refuel a generator located in each map. Every can the Survivors pour into the generator scores their team a point and adds time to the clock.
On defense, the Infected team plays as the boss Infected (including the new Spitter, Jockey, and Charger). They must keep the Survivors from fueling the generator by attacking them, destroying the gas cans, or running out the clock. During a round, each team gets an opportunity to play both sides, with the round going to whichever team successfully delivers the most cans.
Coming exclusively to Xbox 360 and PC, L4D2 promises to set a new benchmark for co-operative action games and become one of 2009's marquee titles. Set for release on November 17, the title adds melee combat to enable deeper co-operative gameplay, with items such as a chainsaws, frying pans, axes, baseball bats, and more.
L4D2 also introduces the AI Director 2.0, adding the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players' performance. The result is a unique game session custom-fitted to provide a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience each time the game is played.
Finally, with new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original, featuring more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, new Survival maps, and a brand new competitive mode all available at launch.
28 Comments on Valve Announces Left 4 Dead 2 Scavenge Mode
This looks like an interesting game mode, although I'm rubbish at playing as the infected I might still try this!
Sounds interesting, at least its something else to play im all for some variety in the game modes.
I have gotten 3 extra zombie maps from call of duty WaW, along with 9 new multilayer maps, and had to pay a total of 0 dollars for them. Also I paid 10 bucks for the game to begin with. That is value to me. :P
P.S. Also, I have played 19 hours of left4dead, and 170 hours of WaW. That is probably just because I prefer cod mp over l4d versus though...
you're saying you'd never buy a sequel - i find that hard to swallow. if it aint broken, why fix it? add new shit, let people enjoy it.
it may not be worth $50 USD, but who the hell pays that much :P there are numerous ways to get steam games cheaper.
Anyways this sequel looks promising, but I sorta do agree that they could have done more, I wouldn't really call the game a sequel if it uses the same graphics engine, it will still be limited to the things it could do as the first game.
look at the half life 2 episodes, each one snuck in improvements, even when the engine didnt change (and when it did change, big improvements!)
Thus I said I would consider it if it were $15, but it will probably be a while before I can find it that cheap, considering that people can't sell activated copies... because of steam...Yeah, but source engine is just getting plain dated. But I really can't see a new engine until half life episode 3. Half life has a great story to go along with it, left4dead has no story. It is really only fun if you can get your friends together to play co-op (if you don't play versus like me...)
plus $34 is still >$15...
Yes I would say the first one is worth $34, however, if somone already owns the first one, unless you are really really into l4d, and play versus on a daily basis or something, there is no way that this one will be worth another 50, or even 34 dollars...
If you play it just for the co-op with friends, might as well just download some user-made maps for the first one...
Edit: I think you are better off getting 10 games here:
www.direct2drive.com/d2dturns5
www.gametrailers.com/video/pc-infected-left-4-dead/57480
Makes me laugh. If you aint buying it, dont post. Simple really.
With bullets!
You know what im looking most forward to? whacking the new bosses with a frying pan. 4 of us on a map, all going "dink!" "dink!" "dink!" "Take that you shit!" :laugh:
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