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We played through Versus mode on Left 4 Dead last night and it was a LOT more fun than I was thinking it was going to be.  The biggest issue is that if the teams aren’t even in terms of humans then it’s very hard to win for the side with the smaller team unless there is a huge skill discrepancy.  Also a single game with a full set of survivors getting to the end pretty much guarantees you’re going to win.  It’s very hard to come back from being down.

In case you didn’t know in Versus mode you go through modified versions of the regular maps, they’ve been fixed so that all the normally ‘missing’ bits are put in because the infected end up in areas the survivors never see.  So in order to make the games run as fast as possible each map is optimized by removing surfaces that in Survivor mode that they can’t possibly see.

Dropping down as a big boomer on top of close packed group of survivors and having one of them shoot you instead of ‘bat’ you away so you soak them all in zombie bile is fun.  Grabbing the last person as a Smoker (50′ long tongue) and yanking him (or her) up to dangle choking?  Also fun.  Pouncing on someone who’s strayed away from the herd as a hunter and slashing them?  Fun too.  Of course some of the really fun moments are standing as a boomer (very wide model) in front of the witch knowing the survivors bullets cut through you like butter so that they hit the witch which is usually guarenteed death for at least one survivor.  Yep, also fun.

Anyway if you enjoy First Person Shooters in the slightest, Left 4 Dead is definitely a game you might want to take a look at.  And I hear it’s on sale at Circuit City this week for $39.99.  That’s 20% off retail pricing.