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Left 4 Dead

Main Game
Shooter Action Horror Survival

Left 4 Dead is a Shooter game released on November 17, 2008 for PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360. Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter set during a zombie outbreak on the East Coast of the United States. Four players control survivors who must fight through hordes of infected humans, …

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User Score
769 ratings
85
Critic Score
7 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
58,502 reviews
November 17, 2008
Released 6541 days ago
PC (Microsoft Windows) Mac Xbox 360

About

Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter set during a zombie outbreak on the East Coast of the United States. Four players control survivors who must fight through hordes of infected humans, creatures transformed by a rabies-like pathogen that causes extreme aggression and loss of higher brain function. Gameplay emphasizes teamwork, with colored outlines showing teammate positions through walls, shared healing items, and friendly fire creating consequences for careless shooting. An AI system called the Director dynamically adjusts enemy placement, item spawns, and pacing based on player performance. Beyond common infected, players face five special mutated types with unique abilities. Campaigns are divided into levels connected by safe houses, each culminating in a desperate last stand for rescue.

Storyline

An outbreak of a pathogen nicknamed the Green Flu sweeps across Pennsylvania, causing extreme aggression, loss of higher brain function, and rapid mutation in its victims. Two weeks after the first infection, four immune survivors find themselves stranded together in the city of Fairfield: Bill, a Vietnam veteran; Zoey, a college student; Louis, a district account manager; and Francis, an outlaw biker.

As the group fights through city streets, subways, and countryside in search of evacuation, they discover that the military's containment efforts are failing and that the infection is producing increasingly dangerous mutations in some of its hosts. Each rescue attempt leads to another setback, pushing the survivors further from safety and forcing them to rely entirely on each other to stay alive.

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Release Dates by Platform

Mac Worldwide
Nov 17, 2008
PC (Microsoft Windows) Worldwide
Nov 17, 2008
Xbox 360 Worldwide
Nov 18, 2008
PC (Microsoft Windows) Worldwide
Nov 18, 2008
Mac Worldwide
Oct 27, 2010

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Game Info

Developer
Valve, Certain Affinity, Turtle Rock Studios
Publisher
Valve, Electronic Arts
Engine
Source
Game Modes
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Perspective
First person
Themes
Action Horror Survival

Multiplayer

Online Co-op Yes
Offline Co-op Yes
Split-screen Yes

Languages

Audio / Voice
English, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Russian
Text / Subtitles
English, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Russian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Chinese (Simplified), Swedish, Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Turkish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Portuguese (Brazil), Thai, Thai, Vietnamese, Portuguese (Portugal), Chinese (Simplified), Swedish, Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, English, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Italian, Russian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish

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