Something more substantial.

Watch the video well, it will help you understand alot that I say. And it helps point out alot of things in the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjfdEe6-dKM&NR=1
-Girl crying is a witch, 1 hit kills :)
- Guy who uses tongue to grab people is a Smoker
- Jumping guy is a Hunter
- Big muscular guy is a tank
- There werent any Boomers in the video. But they're just big guys with big tummies.
- Oh and when the car alarms go off, a whole load of them flood the streets? Thats what I mean by the horde. Scenarios when loads of them appear.

Ok so yea, 10 minutes ago I said how good L4D is.
Then again, after a cup of water I think that was a pretty shit post.
And since I know how badly we all crave for each others company, let me tell you what I did today.

So here goes.
Today I met up with 2 other friends of mine, one's Ben, another's Ying Yang ( :\ ). And we go to one of the many nearby cyber cafes.
Originally they wanted to try out TF2 to see how good it is, but somehow we had problems running the game.

So we decided to play L4D instead.
Now before I continue, let me notify you about some things first.

1. Our L4D was slightly cracked. This meant we couldnt play online, and we could only play on a certain map. In fact just to make a LAN connection involved having to manually type commands into the console to get it running. But nevermind that.

So yea, we only could play on 1 map --- Dead Air
Its pretty much fighting your way through an airport to get to a plane for evac. Sounds simple doesnt it? Because it is :)

So yea, we get the server running, play abit, and then my game crashes *fuck*. And so we stopped.....

and played CoD4 instead.

Now Im going to skip the whole CoD4 bits, because I'm here writing about L4D and not CoD4 (though I did have fun being the top killer amongst the 3 of us, mainly through keeping still and waiting for them to fight another only to finish off both of them )

So after half an hour or so, we decided to retry L4D.

Round 2 :
So yea, we set off nicely trying to save the world! Well actually trying to save ourselves from the mindless horde of zombies. so yes, we set off having an easy time gunning down some zombies every now and then. Until we reach a point where the screen says

"Activate van to help break though [barricade]"

So being the idiot I am, I run off and turn on the van. It speeds off and crashes through the barricade. Just as that happens, a whole horde of zombies come from like... nowhere.

They come from little cracks in the walls, big holes in the walls, and pretty much everywhere. I dont play much zombie games or watch much of that kinda movies, so I'm in no position to comment on how bad the torrent is. But lets say its bad enough for me to fire full auto at them coming out from the hole, and some will survive to read me and attempt to tear off my limbs.

Then again, they dont run like the normal zombies you see. They run like the fast zombies in HL2. Not the aggressive of course, they run like normal humans, with hands waving in air n all. They will jump, duck and do whatever to get to you. But mainly, they will try to rush you in a whole big bunch and overrun your position.

In all, facing off a small group of zombies is ok, its facing the HORDE that is shit.

So yea, we try our best to maintain our lines of fire and keep off the wave of zombies. Only to find them flanking us, getting from out behinds and all. And to make things worst, we were pretty spreaded out when that happened so if 1 of us fell. He'd be in shit because you need another player to help pick you up. And while you're grounded, you're unable to move, and can only use your pistols to try defend yourself.

So thats bad already.

Then better still are the special zombies. There're 5 of them. Right now, I'm going to talk about the SMOKER. Its pretty much a zombie with a really long tongue that likes to grab people with it and strangle them, at the same time dragging them across the place away from the team.
That happened to me, meaning I got further seperated from my mates and was left to be assaulted by the horde.

Meanwhile another friend got attacked by a HUNTER. Which is pretty much a zombie wearing a hoodie, who jumps around. His main attack is poucing on someone, knocking the guy down (and potentially off a flight of stairs or a ledge or something) and ripping the person to pieces while the persons on the ground. In this case you need a friend to knock him off, or shoot him off.

Eitherway, we were in a bad position. And after some fire fighting, 3/4 of the group were down. By the end of the whole thing, I was dead, while my other friends were hardly alive. Nevertheless they continued on, later to rescue me from a little closet which served as my respawn point. Sadly I missed some shooting n gunning :(

So we continue fighting our way through the airport infested terminals. Along the way, a friend has the nice glory of shooting a Witch. Bad idea. Eitherway, it was good that we kept together at that point, meaning we managed to kill the witch after she struck him down. Still, one guy "dead". In L4D, theres a grace period, meaning even if your HP runs out, as long as a teamate runs along, he can revive you. However if you're down for too long, you're dead, or if you get knocked down too often, then you die. So we save him, and reach a safe point.

Now the minute I get into the safe point, another horde storms the place.


---to be continued----