Additionally, unlike Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, each Cleaner (Survivors in the L4D games) has special skills and stats, strength and weaknesses. Safe rooms also have a store you can use gold coins found throughout the levels to purchase attachments for the weapons that give boosts to certain stats, med kits, ordinance-like pipe bombs, grenades and molotov cocktails, team boosts that give the team more stamina, more health, etc. There are some new wrinkles thrown in such as a stamina bar that depletes as you run and swing your melee weapon. As a veteran player of Left 4 Dead (and Left 4 Dead 2) this immediately made me feel at home playing the game. There’s an AI Director that assesses how the players are doing, and throws enemies at the players in different sequences throughout, making each run unique. The basic template of Left 4 Dead is clearly here: players take on the role of four survivors as they make their way from safe room to safe room across four acts, killing zombies (here called “The Ridden” as opposed to the “Infected” in Left 4 Dead) and “Special Ridden” (essentially “Special Infected” from Left 4 Dead), while accomplishing tasks and and making a final stand as waves of Ridden and Special Ridden attack before getting rescued. So when Back 4 Blood was announced, clearly as a spiritual successor to what Turtle Rock created, I was eagerly anticipating it, but could Turtle Rock recapture the magic of their 2008 game? Well, the time has finally come, and Back 4 Blood is out, and the answer is a lot of “yes,” and a little bit of “no.” Left 4 Dead 2, while good as well, just didn’t feel the same without Turtle Rock Studios at the helm. Countless hours were spent playing with friends and some of the best, most intense multiplayer moments I’ve ever had - like the anecdote above - were in that game. I love the characters, the design, the special infected, the maps, everything. I’ll say it plainly: I absolutely love Left 4 Dead. Certain I was dead, I nearly let go of my controller, but my friend managed to get a shot off instantly killing the Hunter before it could do any damage to me, and we closed the door behind us, making the two of us the only survivors, and thus winning the match. Right as I entered the safe room, a player using a Hunter pounced on me. As I hobbled to the safe room, respite and a chance to heal my character (I always played Bill because he was the old man that smoked cigarettes) my friend, playing Louis, was right behind me watching my back to make sure I made it. Hopefully not another 10-year wait, though.One time playing Left 4 Dead Versus mode on the Dead Air campaign, I was down to a sliver of health, my screen was black and white meaning the next time I take damage I’m dead for good. Or this could all mean nothing - it's a wait-and-see situation. So, L4D3’s rotting corpse could potentially dig itself out of the grave, too, and barrel toward us with the speed of a Tank. Valve have more recently stated that, yes, they do “definitely have games in development,” and we also know that other projects, like the ethereal Half-Life 3, have stopped and restarted development a handful of times.
Left 4 Dead 3 was said to be an open-world undead bonanza set in Morocco, and it was apparently cancelled due to the Source 2 engine’s limitations. In the Half-Life: Alyx - Final Hours documentary, we learned that Valve had actually been working on L4D3, but they eventually scrapped the project alongside another Half-Life shooter (not Alyx) and a Dark Soulsish RPG. Even still, priority-none doesn’t instil much confidence that the project is imminent, or even in development. Most recently, mentions of Counter-Strike 2 were found in CS:GO’s files, and - against all odds - Counter-Strike 2 was real, and it’s coming this summer.
WILL THERE EVER BE A LEFT 4 DEAD 3 CODE
It’s funny to think that Valve just enjoys trolling fans via obscure code names hidden in files, but sometimes they do become actual tangible games. This prompted Valve to declare that they were "absolutely not working on anything L4D related now, and haven't for years." Mentions of a Half-Life 3 and a Left 4 Dead 3 also popped up several years ago in the files for Portal VR, but Valve often recycles assets between projects, so the remains of a once-in-development L4D3 might be the culprit here. As we reported at the time, in 2020 HTC’s president Alvin Wang Graylin shared VR-related slides mentioning Left 4 Dead 3 alongside Half-Life: Alyx. This isn’t the first time there have been rumblings of a third Left 4 Dead. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.
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