November 17, 2009
LEFT 4 DEAD 2 LAUNCHING WORLDWIDE
North American Retail and Steam Available Now, Rest of
World Follows Later This Week
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as
Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and
Source), today announced the availability of its zombie thriller, Left 4 Dead 2,
at retail outlets across North America (360, PC) and worldwide via Steam (PC).
Retail outlets around the world will launch the title later this week.
Exclusively available for the Xbox 360 and PC, L4D2 promises
to set a new benchmark for co-operative action games and become one of 2009’s
marquee titles. The title adds melee combat to enable deeper co-operative
gameplay, with items such as a chainsaws, frying pans, axes, baseball bats, and
more.
With the AI Director 2.0, L4D’s dynamic gameplay is taken to
the next level by giving the Director the ability to procedurally change weather
effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy
population, effects, and sounds to match the players’ performance. The result is
a unique game session custom fitted to provide a satisfying and uniquely
challenging experience each time the game is played.
Finally, with new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items,
Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original, featuring more
co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, new Survival maps, and the new
competitive game mode, Scavenge, all available at launch.
