Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Left 4 Dead, the #1 co-op game of 2008. This co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Release Date: 16 Nov, 2009

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"A 4 Player Co-Op Zombie Survival game, don't leave the group or a hunter or charger might get you. This game also has Steam Workshop and mods. Get it."

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Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Left 4 Dead, the #1 co-op game of 2008.
This co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
You'll play as one of four new survivors armed with a wide and devastating array of classic and upgraded weapons. In addition to firearms, you'll also get a chance to take out some aggression on infected with a variety of carnage-creating melee weapons, from chainsaws to axes and even the deadly frying pan.
You'll be putting these weapons to the test against (or playing as in Versus) three horrific and formidable new Special Infected. You'll also encounter five new “uncommon” common infected, including the terrifying Mudmen.
Helping to take L4D's frantic, action-packed gameplay to the next level is AI Director 2.0. This improved Director has the ability to procedurally change the weather you'll fight through and the pathways you'll take, in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match your performance. L4D2 promises a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience every time the game is played, custom-fitted to your style of play.
  • Next generation co-op action gaming from the makers of Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress and Counter-Strike.
  • Over 20 new weapons & items headlined by over 10 melee weapons – axe, chainsaw, frying pan, baseball bat – allow you to get up close with the zombies
  • New survivors. New Story. New dialogue.
  • Five expansive campaigns for co-operative, Versus and Survival game modes.
  • An all new multiplayer mode.
  • Uncommon common infected. Each of the five new campaigns contains at least one new “uncommon common” zombies which are exclusive to that campaign.
  • AI Director 2.0: Advanced technology dubbed “The AI Director” drove L4D's unique gameplay – customizing enemy population, effects, and music, based upon the players’ performance. L4D 2 features “The AI Director 2.0” which expands the Director’s ability to customize level layout, world objects, weather, and lighting to reflect different times of day.
  • Stats, rankings, and awards system drives collaborative play

System Requirements

Windows
Mac OS X
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows® 7 32/64-bit / Vista 32/64 / XP
    • Processor: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Video card with 128 MB, Shader model 2.0. ATI X800, NVidia 6600 or better
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Storage: 13 GB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows® 7 32/64-bit / Vista 32/64 / XP
    • Processor: Intel core 2 duo 2.4GHz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Video Card Shader model 3.0. NVidia 7600, ATI X1600 or better
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Storage: 13 GB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
    Minimum:
    • OS: MacOS 10.7
    • Processor: Dual core Intel processor, 2GHz or better
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000
    • Storage: 13 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Not supported: OS X 10.5.x, ATI X1600 or X1900 graphics, NVIDIA GeForce 7 graphics or Intel graphics less than Intel HD 3000.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 12.04
    • Processor: Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1
    • Storage: 13 GB available space
    • Sound Card: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card
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cucker doodle doo
( 62.8 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
a game full of ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ ai and anime playermodels

pros
-great game if you have friends but of course you don't you ♥♥♥♥ing loser
-the ai is top notch, they are interactive with many great feauture such as saying hello back to you and shooting zombies and not doing anything else
-you can get bum ♥♥♥♥♥ by shrek with mods
-you get to shoot zombies and watch them explode to satisfy your sick gore fetish you ♥♥♥♥ing freak, what is wrong with you? are you mentally challenged or are you just ♥♥♥♥ed in the head?
-you can friendly fire
-you can collaboratively mow down the one ai on your team that everyone doesn't want to pick, ROCHELLE
-you can shoot squidward
-you can basically shoot in any direction and hit someone in the absolute cluster♥♥♥♥ of zombies
-you can chop zombies and their ♥♥♥♥♥ off.'
-you have the option to not play as rochelle
-you can almost finish the map and then get bum♥♥♥♥ed by a charger
-you can almost finish the map and then get bum♥♥♥♥ed by a tank
-you can sit in burning hot acid as the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ai trys to help you ending up in a cycle of useless cucks lying on the floor burning to death
-you have the option to not open the door to dead teammates

cons
-the servers for downloaded maps are almost non existent and run like a hairy r3ctum
-the characters and their extremely obnoxious chants for help
-the game is just boring af with no friends except i am super popular at school and not insecure at all
-no one even plays the game anymore
-l4d3 isn't out
-spitters and their saggy fun sacks and their green ♥♥♥
-tanks because they are just bullet sponge gorillas
-the charger and his one small arm because it reminds of one of my body parts that is rather lacking size

SICK GAME SICK GAME SICK GAME
best game ever created and there is anime playermodels
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skeletonofmemes
( 21.2 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
Left 4 Dead 2 is everything you'd expect in a sequel. More weapons, more zombies, more fun. A bloody good time everytime I re-play an online campaign or survival.

9.5/10
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NewbieGamerL4D2
( 50.4 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
Very Addictive And Fun.Just Seeing The Heaps Pop is awesome.Recommend If u like Shooting Zombies Over And Over And Over Again.
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Sakamoto Vladimir Stroganovsky
( 37.2 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥ RUSH B!!!
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Teen_Tactical
( 15.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
My Experiance- This game has cause my entire pc to crash sevral times. I didn't know it was the game so I factory resat my pc. Since then it has not crashed for 2 weeks. But the day i get redownload l4d2 my pc crashes again....Don't know if it was the game or the mods but etheir way not touching it ever again..


The game it self is fun for maybe 7-8 hours even with mods. Boring by yourself so get friends... I would get it on ♥♥♥ or steam sale. Not worth 20
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Albert Arlington
( 53.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
You only need to peek at EA's immense marketing spend for Left 4 Dead 2 to see what all the fuss is about. Last year's affair was comparatively muted, spurred along by word of mouth, adulation from the gaming press and a communal respect for Valve's pedigree as a developer. Left 4 Dead 2 begins with the success of the original, creating a sequel born out of dedication, a shrewd understanding of the online market and the realisation that the first one of these was pretty dang good.

It seems funny at first, then, that after acclimatising to the new daytime environments and peeling back the veneer of a new cast of survivors, the initial steps the sequel takes in the big wide world is to tie the game's campaigns together into one connected narrative - the first game's standalone campaigns were critically championed. But, as seems to always be the case, Valve knows best. My eight-hour day one binge, and the personal eradication of 3,218 infected, started with a single stray zombie and the cast of Left 4 Dead 2 meeting each other for the first time.

Dead Center is where the four player co-op tale starts, with Nick, Ellis, Rochelle and Coach being - appropriately - left for dead by an evacuating helicopter. The detailed minutiae is still adorable: nobody knows the proper names for the special infected yet, for instance, so you hear cries of "hoodie" and "fat man" when the AI director throws its fancy lackeys in your direction. As you move through an apartment complex, which culminates in forcing the team through a burning floor of the building, the survivors have made their introductions to each other and the player. When Rochelle tells the group to "axe her a question" after picking one up, you'll be ready to let Zoey, Bill, Francis and Louis take the backseat for a bit. Later, as you frantically scamper through a convenience store to grab bottles of coca-cola to fulfil a barricaded man's bizarre request for refreshment, you'll have just about forgotten they ever existed in the first place. Poor Louis.

Valve's aging (but still competent) Source engine shows its age from time to time, but their ability to imbue character and atmosphere is constant. Plus they've upped the zombie gore technology, turning the pleasant scenes of Southern American surburbia into snapshots of unfettered crimson viscera. The five campaigns, between them, have a variety that the first game lacked: Dead Center's finale sequence, for instance, makes you to run around in a mall collecting petrol tanks to fill up an all-American muscle car. Hard Rain takes you through a riverside town, including a witch-infested Sugar Mill, and back again, requiring you to retrace your steps through a vision-impairing rainstorm before defending off waves of zombies at a burger bar.

But it's Dark Carnival, chronologically the second campaign, which shows the game at its best. Starting on a highway at dusk, the survivors work their way through a motel complex and, eventually, into the Whispering Oaks carnival. Here you travel through a tunnel of love before kicking off panic events by playing with fairground rides, with charming mascot Moustachio, and eventually running a lengthy, nail-biting gauntlet event over a rollercoaster track. Nothing, however, tops the finale: the team stumble upon a stadium and decide to attract a helicopter by staging their own rock concert, setting off fireworks, turning on the lights and cranking the music all the way up to eleven. Voluminous hordes of undead nasties quickly follow, of course.

Any game that lets you honk the noses of zombie clowns isn't going to be taking itself entirely seriously, and Left 4 Dead 2's moments of quirky aesthetic decadence help pepper each campaign with enough intriguing nooks and crannies to keep you amused across multiple playthroughs. Those questioning the direction only need to know the following: as splendid as the first game is, the sequel makes its single night-time setting look limited in scope.

Left 4 Dead always grounded itself in a very definable set of rules. It didn't fuss about with things like weapons, for instance - you had either the good or better version of an assault rifle or shotgun. Or the hunting rifle, which was a bit duff. Left 4 Dead 2 opens up somewhat, initially by presenting you with mid-tier guns, such as the AK-47 and silenced SMG, for your primary weapon. But it's the secondary slot that's undergone the most radical makeover, with the game offering up a selection of melee - cricket bat, katana, fire axe, et al - tools alongside a potential high-calibre magnum pistol.

Smooshing a zombie's head with a frying pan, with beautiful accompanying clang, is an irresistible prospect and, thankfully, sequences primed for close combat are served up with abandon by the new campaigns, which frequently toss you opportunities where it's easier just to soldier forward with melee weapons flailing aimlessly. There's also an achievement for battering a Tank to death, if you're feeling insane. Overall, though, these additions don't, as might be feared, overcomplicate matters: they're still just instruments to remove zombie heads, arms and legs from zombie bodies. What they do allow, however, is for the game's strict rule-set to be turned into an apocalyptic playground, chucking in a whole load of new, entertaining options whilst keeping the core gameplay near-identical.

Teamwork is still the most useful tool in your arsenal - that's kind of the point - and that fundamental tenet of sticking together to get the job done is always in full effect. And, for those bands of four who consider themselves a cut above, there's a Realism mode which removes most of the handy on-screen information (such as the location of your teammates) and makes zombie torsos more resistant to bullets. Headshots still work, thank God.

The AI director, who handles the spawning of nasties, has a few new tricks up his sleeves, notably in the addition of three new special infected. The Charger (rushes at the team and pummels one to death unless killed first), Spitter (flings balls of noxious acid) and Jockey (jumps on top of a survivor and steers them into peril) are seamlessly integrated into the experience - to the point you wonder how the game ever worked without them - and, even more surprisingly, work with the existing lot to set up some convincing traps. Their AI is a bit smarter this time around, too; they're more likely to hold back and co-ordinate rather than rush one-by-one to their imminent second demise.

It's still more than prepared to kick you when you're down: the Director is like the undead version of Deal or no Deal's nefarious Banker. I've gone through multiple finales where it chose to spawn Tanks right next to the escape vehicle, which is disheartening and must be a form of abuse. I might complain. But it certainly does keep you on your toes.

Further masochistic delights can be derived from the game's new Scavenge mode. On paper it's a simple arena-based multiplayer feature; a best of three where Survivors try and collect gas tanks to fill up vehicles and the Infected attempt to stop them. In practice it's phenomenal, giving you a concentrated Left 4 Dead experience in small bursts. Because, let's face it - as good as Versus mode is, it always takes a very long time to get all the back-and-forth out of the way.

It might offer more of the good stuff, but the same issues that affected the first creep their way back into the sequel. It's not a game for everyone, for a start, and anyone that even thinks about playing it single-player will be sorely disappointed. And the Campaigns, on your first time through, can still be confusing mazes, twisting and turning around dead-end nooks and crannies intended to give the Infected a place to hide in Versus mode. Levels are designed to push players the right way by design, but even the very best of design intentions cannot compensate for time and experience with the game. But, as o
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beastbilly01
( 0.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
Product received for free
I had downloaded this game while it was free and after 20 mins of playing it i closed it then when i tried to play it again it said i had to buy it, i do like this game
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<<WILD_H@WK>>
( 14.7 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
Challenging game :)
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32 of 37 people (86%) found this review helpful
3 people found this review funny
Recommended
5.1 hrs on record
Posted: 15 July
This has to be the best, most original, zombie survival based game to ever be brought forth to the gaming community. I will argue nothing less; this is the best zombie survival game I have ever come across, you can't dislike this game! Every aspect of this game is lovable, between the four witty unique characters, the eerie plot of the story themed campaigns, and the various gamemodes, weapons, and special infected. Left 4 Dead deserves every award it recieved.

All in All Left4Dead2 is the best Most Original Zombie Game

9/10 From Me
Sweep
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23 of 26 people (88%) found this review helpful
4 people found this review funny
Recommended
945.7 hrs on record
Posted: 17 July
900+ Hours and counting.
This sequel is #1 on my list of Recommended Games. The Left 4 Dead Series is an instant classic, released 7 years ago and it still holds up. Play alone or play with your friends (or strangers), you will enjoy this game for countless hours. L4D2 is an improvement to an already fantastic and entertaining game. Make new friends, or lose some, the game focuses on cooperative gameplay that will teach you how to be patient and make you a great team player. You can download new maps and customize the whole game with mods from the workshop. This is the Best Zombie Co-op game ever!

Here are some pros:
+Easy mechanics, no boring story-line
+Community is alive and well (90% of the people on my friends list are from this game).
+Endless mods on the Workshop. It's like walking into a grocery store.
+Funny and witty Character Lines.
+Melee Weapons
+More Blood
+New Survivors, New Campaigns, New Zombies.
+Achievements that you will enjoy hunting for.
+Cool Easter Eggs and Movie references.
+Random jump scares every once in a while.
+Boomer is still Ugly

I only have one Con though:
-GOOD GUY NICK!!!


10/10 Would kill all sons-a-♥♥♥♥♥es again!
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27 of 35 people (77%) found this review helpful
3 people found this review funny
Recommended
35.1 hrs on record
Posted: 10 July
Best thing about this game are the mods.
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21 of 27 people (78%) found this review helpful
20 people found this review funny
Recommended
46.9 hrs on record
Posted: 11 July
There are no breaks on the CHARGERape Train

10/10 would bang to the wall again
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12 of 13 people (92%) found this review helpful
2 people found this review funny
Recommended
65.8 hrs on record
Posted: 25 July
If you need a good game to play with your friends , this is it

Good :
✓ One of the best co op game.
✓ Multiplayer is fun , playing as zombies is fun.
✓ Can play in steam group servers where you will have 10+ survivers with you.
✓ Several games modes such as Survival , Scavenge , Versus and Co op ..
✓ Steam Workshop have fan made maps , guns and character models. Which is really good.
✓ Can play for a long time.
✓ VAC protected.
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11 of 12 people (92%) found this review helpful
12 people found this review funny
Recommended
1.3 hrs on record
Posted: 20 July
I forgot I had mods on, so when I joined a game I was extremely confused when I was attacked by cheeseburgers... 10/10
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9 of 10 people (90%) found this review helpful
Recommended
515.8 hrs on record
Posted: 8 August
Left 4 Dead 2 is a pretty fun game, but i hate the fact that sometimes i join a game and i get killed by griefers. I usually make my own servers to have fun with and kick/ban players that dare to ruin the game.

Just beware of those types of people. :]
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7 of 7 people (100%) found this review helpful
6 people found this review funny
Recommended
146.5 hrs on record
Posted: 10 July
The most fun game you can play without spending extra money.
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6 of 6 people (100%) found this review helpful
5 of 5 people (100%) found this review helpful
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Recommended
39.9 hrs on record
Posted: 30 July
Product received for free
I love This Game So Much , It was so nice and amusing
worth to play and everything
i would like to say thanks to all credits of this game ^_^
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