I spent the majority of my playthrough on this mode since the Co-Op campaigns require multiple players. It’s like they say, out of the frying pan and into the fire. The small group of four, Nick, Coach, Rochelle, and Ellis are sticking together to hunt down zombies, or better yet, get the hell out of dodge. You play as one of the remaining survivors of the zombie apocalypse that ruined the city of Savannah, Georgia. Realism removes halos for nearby items or weapons to force players to rely on each other in coordinating attacks. Mutations force you to fight the special infected without your teammates. The other two modes include Realism and Mutations. Scavenge mode sends the survivors on a search for gas cans to power a vehicle or generator before the infected can get them. From what I’ve seen, this game is more fun with other players.īut if you want to play competitive, then Versus mode lets you join a team of either the survivors or the “special infected” where the game continues until every survivor is killed or incapacitated.

You basically have to stay alive as long as possible until the infected overwhelm your group due to increasing difficulty. Survival modes belong to a DLC pack, featuring 16 challenging maps for the daring. This is considered the story mode of Left 4 Dead 2 and is beginner-friendly. Your teammates are all bots so they can’t throw bombs or hold onto a second weapon. Single player games are strictly offline so only one player controlled character is allowed per run. Any character not selected by human players will be controlled by the AI bots once the game begins. There’s the standard Co-op, where four people team up to reach the end. The sequel went above and beyond in creating new campaigns for players to test out. It takes place a week after the events of Left 4 Dead, as four survivors are left behind to fend for themselves at the top of a hotel against the infected humans. Left 4 Dead 2is considered a co-operative survival horror FPS, though I see it as a series of campaigns where endless waves of zombies attack your party until they make it to the next safe area. If you want the full horror game experience, there are co-op and survival modes to take on. Join your friends in multiplayer (or lone-wolf it) across five campaigns as you rip apart zombies with your chainsaw, blast the infected undead with machine guns, and pray to God you don’t run out of ammo.

Left 4 Dead 2is the second installment of a zombie-apocalypse shootout simulator.

Left 4 dead 2 review