Re: LEFT 4 DEAD DEMO
I've played the game in an xbox lan party now. We were waiting till we could all play together before we played it because it's one of those games that the first time through a level is the best. My brothers and a local friend, overall we make a very good team I'd say. All of us are plenty competent shooter players, my brother having won halo tourneys in our county, and none of us have some kind of personality disorder preventing teamwork. Played it on hard. All but Dead Air.
Sadly, I've still to have actually survived a single campaign myself. Somehow, no matter how well we've done throughout the levels, right at the very end, the very moment the rescue turns up, something always went cataclysmicly wrong and I end up dieing the last second. Here's my tales of last second tragedy for each map.
No Mercy: All buddys are in the chopper. I'm no more than a second behind them with a clear path. When all of a sudden a tank climbs up from practically beneath the chopper and smacks me right off the building. In memory of Bill.
Death Toll: Running from the house to the boat, a tank and boomer make a small mess of our escape and delaying it long enough for a smoker to pull me, the only one not blinded by the boomer way way out of the group and into a horde. By the time everyone else has dealt with the tank and their own problems, reviving one buddy, I was pretty messed up. Valiantly saving me, we all hobble back across open ground to the boat, by which more zombies were already flooding in. A second smoker gets me a second time just a footstep from the boat, when a boomer hurls on me as I get dragged. There was nothing my limping team could do. In memory of Bill.
Blood Harvest: It's all been going pretty good. The house defence was tough, with damned smokers pulling people from windows, but we kept it together and survived for the APC to make it. Running for the APC the normal end hordes were coming down on us, when one buddy had a great idea and flung a pipe bomb. But a poorly aimed one. Partly my fault and partly his, I didn't manage to see where the pipe bomb had went when suddenly it came from the sky right onto me. The mob that'd been trying to loosely chase it in the air, suddenly rushed together, with me in the middle. They smacked half my health down, the bomb did the rest. The two buddys now in the APC were reluctant to leave after last time they saved me. The one left just behind me tried to save me while the others covered. Up and running with no more chances for revives now, we desperately bolted for the APC, when the ever timely tank smashed me past my buddy, to land lifeless and broken in the back of the APC. In memory of Bill.
When we get together again to do Dead Air, I am gonna survive dammit. Still, much fun had. x_x