We love Valve, and Valve is responsible to us in return. Announcement of Left 4 Dead 2 all, if you remember, terrified: as well, where free updates, why you have to pay again? "Keep calm and keep playing," - supposedly quoting British agitation of the Second World employees Valve. The situation is under control very soon everyone will be happy.
So: since the release of Left 4 Dead 2 was less than six months, and to the game and really started to produce mini-supplements, and handouts. The first such poluadd-on'om The campaign The Passing - not what a great horror, is not terribly original in terms of gameplay and story does not turn basis. But a new and free.
 | |  | The new team was looking at old with undisguised adoration. "Come on!" - They say. "No, no, we'll stand and listen." | | Source engine is surprisingly good, even though he has already turned 5 years old. |
It consists of three cards and passes, approximately half an hour. Then, of course, pereprohoditsya unlimited number of times. Represents though hodgepodge of locations of the original game: start on streets in the spirit of The Parish, wade through the mud through the rain curtain of Hard Rain, climbing through tunnels, reminiscent of the Dark Carnival, and at the end collect the cans of gasoline - a hair- just like on the map Dead Center, except that here the scale larger, and therefore need only to wander in pairs (and preferably directly into fours, so surely). But there are nuances.
 | According to Igor Sonin |
I put on view in The Passing of an interesting first single, not for nothing that we were promised a meeting of two teams surviving and dramatic death of one of the original characters. These expectations will not come true: A new campaign is no different from old ones, and plot bits - boring and stupid. In multiplayer the same levels of fresh, new clothes and cosmetics new game mode turn out to be a decent bonus. Which once again proves: Left 4 Dead 2 - is primarily a great online game.
Nuance of the first related to the plot: at the level a couple of times there are heroes of the first part - usually limited to meeting these conversations over the fence, but in the end the three friends from a parallel games begin we do not support morally, and fire and sword. Yes, yes, three: one of the survivors ... there the survivors to be stopped.This fact is applied without any pathos - but it is expected over the edge in the upcoming campaign for the original Left 4 Dead: death of a hero there becomes a conscious sacrifice of one of the players. To share the first-aid kit just in much, but out of the game to support his comrades - is a serious step.
 | |  | Here it is, "realism": dragged into a corner, while others have not even noticed. | | The drama of the situation does not spoil even the Internet-slang and silly nicknames of players. Pate panic - and not without reason. |
Along with killing the character at Valve have created a new type of "extraordinary ordinary" Zombie: "fallen survivor." This, unfortunately, not zombifitsirovannye Zoe and Bill, but only ghouls with first-aid kits and grenades in his bosom, who cheerfully from the players skedaddle - a "survivor" seems to self-preservation instinct remains even after death.
Plus appear on the map drawers with unlimited reserves of painkiller, syringes and other small utilities - tactics are not particularly me, but at least some diversity. And there are new weapons: machine gun M60 - so heavy and feature-rich that it can not even recharge. Run out of bullets - throw and run farther with a golf club (by the way, stick - the second and final new weapon The Passing).
| Midnight Riders |
In The Passing attentive gamer will see something else and what guest stars - rockers Midnight Riders. Not personally, though - on the map to their bus passes. To find it, you need the second level of the campaign in a bar with pool tables to choose on the jukebox a new song called Save Me Some Sugar (just click on the machine until you hear a guitar gash and the words «The bus is on the road, sweet Georgia fades away »). After that quick run through the construction site to the fence at the edge of the map - on the road for him and the truck will sweep. "Riders," comes out, still survive. They even blog are, in fact - it can be read on the official site www.midnight-riders.com. The last entry, though dated 8 October 2009: bassist Jake there announced that the epidemic is "green flu» Midnight Riders will not stop: a tour of No Salvation will be terminated only through their bodies.
 | |  | Repulse the latest attack, all sad that the campaign is over."What do you think, and even add-on will be?" There's no doubt, no one - everyone loves Valve, Valve, and all the love in return. | | Good life zombie mode Realism Survival: stand myself somewhere on the roof, "lolkaesh and generally feel a cat surrounded by mice. |
But the most interesting in the update came out not even the title of the campaign material, and a new mode called "mutation» (Mutations). Each week, the developers show there is some original hybrid form of the game. At the time of writing, for example, shoot and bite in Realism Versus - it's for the team when the zombie characters are highlighted, and for the people there. It turns amusing hunting - much I played, the party has never survived to the finish did not get. And there is a certain charm: when you run over people, you feel like death in the air - and not even try it especially delay. Come and get me, as they say, and then God will judge on points. Next "mutation" (and maybe not next, but apart from her any yet announced) will be the "Chainsaw Massacre» (Chainsaw Massacre) - each one is given by headword arms with an endless supply of fuel, and forward - to recreate scenes from the thrash of zombie movies . Nothing revolutionary in "mutations", of course not: there even in the Counter-Strike you can change the battle conditions. But then these conditions are given once and for all week, so willing to play enough, and seriously begin to relate to stupid battles, roughly speaking, "at loggerheads".
Besides - is not it great! - Now we have about every seven days to run Left 4 Dead 2. A glimpse of the new regime and immediately shut down - in theory.
 | |  | The team got in a dramatic pose in one of the most "infinite" mailboxes. This had Molotov cocktails, you see. | | I'll be about ten seconds to eat their prey, while leg-up with a chainsaw is not hobbled. |
| About Us |
1983. Four guys from Texas, founded the most famous group of American, Love Supply. Once they opened the concert Midnight Riders - they are so thorough udelali his colleagues that have become famous all over the country.
1985. Members of the Midnight Riders finish work on their first album together and get out of jail, where they spent the last two years. The album is called «We're Coming For You, Love Supply», and after its release, the group Love Supply splits.
1993. Midnight Riders get their first musical award, a Grammy, for "the largest number of fireworks in one concert."
2009. After the release of the 23 albums the band went on tour with a symbolic name No Salvation Fairgrounds Tour. Maybe we are in it pouchastvuem?
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