The campaign structure of the Left 4 Dead series is tailor made for easily digestible chunks of content. With the latest downloadable content offering, The Passing, Valve has wisely eschewed the story-light trappings of other downloadable releases, instead creating something easy to pick up and play, but with all of the flavor of the retail release, and some long-awaited fan service with the appearance of the original Left 4 Dead's Survivors. Where Left 4 Dead's Crash Course DLC stumbled in retaining the feel and relevance of the main game, The Passing successfully fits in well with Left 4 Dead 2's retail campaigns, and actually makes the existing content a bit more interesting to boot.
Over the last few weeks Gamejudgment's Emily Clarke started playing through Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2's downloadable content. Here are her thoughts.
I never bought any of the DLC, not sure why. The only reason I stopped playing was due to repeating each of the maps countless times; the DLC definately would've helped out.
Every week, there is a new mutation released on both PC and Xbox 360 for Left 4 Dead 2, but today's one (december the 3rd) is the most important to notice since it announces that community created mods is striving to make its way for the Xbox gaming with the next week's upcoming mutation:
Mutation Madness!
"As we continue to update bi-weekly, we will be incorporating some of these community Mutations. To make a Mutation, you will need to build and test your mutation on the PC but we will release them on both PC and Xbox 360. So user created content is beginning to see itself on the Xbox 360!"
Update: The Left 4 dead 2 user created mods for mutations can be enjoyed by Xbox 360 owners ONLY after buying "The passing" DLC (and Left 4 Dead 2 of course).
This is VERY good news ... it means that Valve may be cracking pieces of MS' shield. A bit of hope for the future, me thinks.
Open it up MS, you know it'll only add more value to your service; you dont give enough to justify 60 bucks a year as is... keep provide'n for us son.
-Kenny Gizzle, OUT.
PACE KALOWEST.
Eh, it's lackluster, IMHO. You have to make it on the PC and then it _could_ make its way to the 360. And, it requires additional DLC.
Microsoft needs to just open their infrastructure and allow independent platforms to work alongside the XBL infrastructure, much like cloud elements.
This sounds better : Valve:"FREE user created content is beginning to see itself on the Xbox 360!"
No it is not free since you NEED TO BUY the DLC to play it!
Well for "FREE" user created content on consoles, you need to go on PS3, it was the case a long time ago with Unreal Tournament 3 (maps, mods, skins, mutators, etc..) and it will be the same case for the upcoming valve games on PS3 beginning with Portal 2.
Um...I think you missed his point, dude. He's saying he'd be more excited, if that was the case...he's not saying the headline is worded incorrectly or anything. :o
A step in the right direction, the mutations in L4D2 are such a good mode to play.
GO VALVE GO!!!
finally, but there was no requirements to purchase DLC for the PS3.. Also the built in browser made downloading free content a snap
MS should allow Valve to give the 360 version of the game the support they want too...
hopefully when L4D is released on PS3 we will see player maps being ported into the ps3 version.
...and character updates. I wanna go medival on someone with an axe wrapped in barbed wire dammit.
As you probably know, today is Veteran’s Day. On this special holiday, we honor the brave men and women who proudly defended their country and the rest of the free world from evil. If you have family and friends that served or currently serve in the armed forces, be sure to thank them for risking their lives.
That said, we would also like to salute the virtual heroes, the video game characters that continue to fight the good fight, so without further ago, we’re proud to present just a handful of the greatest video game war veterans of all time.
John Artest (RunDLC)
A solid list, with some great video Game war heroes. Glad to see Solid Snake and Bill in there.
Such an awesome franchise. Going to have to get this DLC maybe in a few days. Gaming is really tight right now but I always loved this franchise. I'll squeeze it in somehow.
this games is so fun. i played it at my friends house. its funny how in survival mode you can take up to like what 20 min just to set up all the bombs but with all the zombie just running around you sometimes just foret about all the traps you layed out and get your asked kicked ha
Nice. I might Download the DLC soon.
DLC is honestly pretty lame. There are far better and longer custom campaigns, I'm amazed this took them 5 months. And killing off one of the L4D1 characters was a bad idea, as now we won't see any future games with those 4 as playable characters. They should have just killed Rochelle off since she's just an annoyance.
I feel bad for those who paid for this, but I guess it's not Valve's call on that one.
Saweet. Once Steam comes to Mac, I'll be downloading this.