Left for Dead 2
History
Left
4 Dead 2, like its predecessor, is a game of multiplayer and cooperative
survival horror first-person shooter. It is the sequel to the award-winning
game from Valve Corporation, Left 4 Dead. The game focuses on cooperative
gameplay of the original and uses Valve's Source engine, the same engine used
in Left 4 Dead. The game made its debut at E3 2009 in a trailer during the
Microsoft press event.
Like
the original, Left 4 Dead 2 is set during a zombie apocalypse, and focuses on
four survivors fighting against hordes of the Infected. Survivors must make
your way through the levels, stopping at shelters that serve as checkpoints,
with the arrival being a rescue vehicle at the end of the campaign. The
gameplay is altered by an artificial intelligence called the
"Director" that monitors the players' performance and alters the
scenario to produce a dynamic challenge for the players as they progress. News
will be introduced, such as new types of infected, melee weapons hand-to-hand
combat, and a story that connects all five games of the campaign.
Like
Left 4 Dead, the sequel involves an apocalyptic pandemic. A mysterious pathogen
began to spread across the southern United States infected taking humans to
behave like zombies. The four survivors must fight the horde of infected. Left
4 Dead 2 takes place in the southern United States, starting in Savannah,
Georgia and ending in New Orleans, Louisiana. The characters from the original
game have been replaced by four new survivors, whose stories are revealed
through dialogues . Unlike the first game where there was no significant story
development, Left 4 Dead 2 has a backstory.
The
plot is similar to Left 4 Dead, it involves the consequences of infection a
week after the events of the previous game, going about three weeks after the
first infection.
The
story begins around noon in Savannah, Georgia. With the rescue helicopters
starting to leave the buildings, four survivors Ellis, Coach, Rochelle, and
Nick, had to climb a hotel to ask for help, but had the misfortune of being
left behind by a few seconds of delay. With the recent situation, the group
decides to go to a mall after hearing that there is no other evacuation centers
still in operation. When the group arrives at the mall, they discover that he
is wide open and full of infected. In an act of desperation, they decide to
move through the building, hoping that the Evacuation Center is simply the
deepest levels of the mall. It turns out that the center was decimated and all
of the CEDA agents are dead or infected. In desperation, the group runs through
the atrium of the mall and finds a stock car running, but without gasoline. A
new idea arises in their mind: getting out of the lobby in search of cans of
gasoline, in order to fill the tank. After a desperate search group can supply
the car and flee Savannah, intending to fly to New Orleans.
During
the flight, the group stops at a bridge lifted by three of the survivors of the
previous game. One meets the survivors and tells them that they can not lower
the bridge for the group because the generator is out of fuel used, and that
one of them is hurt. After battling with a Witch Bride through the streets, and
a "sewer historic", the survivors meet up with the other three again
on the other side. After the three original survivors agreed to help defend
them from the high ground, the group of Savannah is able to fend off most
infected, are cans of gasoline, fill the generator, cross the bridge and go
down, from getting in the car while exchange farewells, finally giving
continuity to travel to New Orleans.
The
getaway car is still running fine until the survivors discover that the road is
blocked by several abandoned vehicles, and this bottling seems to stretch for
miles. Finding no other way to go, the survivors decide to leave the car and
continue on foot. When they are below an overpass, see the spotlight away a
line considerably. Hoping to find some uninfected people, the group then
decides to follow the direction from which the light comes. Once there they
discover that the lights were coming from the fair and Whispering Oaks
Amusement Park, which is now a hunting ground for a large number of people
infected. The survivors roam the park for quite some time until finally they
see a helicopter flying overhead. Newly inspired, they decide to activate the
electronic components of the rock show created for the band The Midnight Riders
hoping that the loud music and huge fireworks will attract the attention of the
helicopter pilot. When they finally enter the amphitheater, they activate the
controls and the sound just managing to attract the pilot of the helicopter and,
with it, a slew of infected. After much struggle, the helicopter finally comes
and rescues, and the survivors escape the abandoned park.
But
again, luck is not on their side, and the helicopter makes an emergency landing
after the pilot of the helicopter become an infected and killed by one of the
survivors. The survivors leave the destroyed helicopter and discover that they
landed in a swamp. They pass a small village and assume that the people decided
to act on his own, took preventive measures and Barricade in their homes
against the infected. Without any other option, the survivors decide to try to
find areas barricades. They travel through the swamp, battling numerous
infected, and find a plane that crashed en route to a safe area. When they
arrive there, they discover that the townspeople were decimated by infection,
but luck eventually be on their side when they find what someone wrote on a
wall on an old farm house and a pier next. The survivors will toward the farm
and there, eventually finding a radio and use it to contact a man named Virgil,
who has a boat in the river below. Virgil and have a small group discussion on
radio and tell the survivors that they are in an old abandoned farm. Virgil
decides to go to the site and begin to navigate there. After the few survivors
fight hordes of infected, Virgil finally arrives and destroys the door that
blocked the path of the river for survivors, the survivors manage to run and
board the boat safely.
However,
along the way, the boat of Virgil begins to run low on fuel, so it leaves the
survivors in the small town of Ducatel, on the shore of the Mississippi River,
with instructions for them to catch the boat to diesel at a gas gasoline which
is just past a cornfield across the city. Unfortunately, the survivors forget
their weapons, and have to travel two miles east, passing through an abandoned
sugar mill and infested Witches to get gasoline. And even worse, they
unfortunately will have to go all the way back in the middle of a downpour. A
forgotten bag of weapons also contained flags that would be used to call
Virgil. So, they decide to use as the Burger Tank sign near the dock. They,
again, have to defend themselves against hordes of infected until Virgil
finally comes to rescue them.
Anyway,
Virgil arrives and rescues the survivors, leaving them, hours later, on a pier
in New Orleans where it seems that the military are still evacuating
survivors. He then leaves, saying he is on his way to find other survivors.
The group of survivors, then fight more infected by tracing its path near the
sea, in a park, a cemetery, and a French quarter, reaching a drawbridge a few
minutes of being bombed by the military. Across the bridge there is a military
helicopter about to leave. Survivors can contact the military through a radio
and then cross the bridge to the pilot of the helicopter that transports them
to a cruise military.
What
happens to the survivors after it is unexplained. Chet Faliszek, the game's
writer, said that the military is taking survivors to ships trying to escape
infection.
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