More on Mini-finales - L4D News
ComputerAndVideoGames.com previewed Left 4 Dead, providing some information on the mysterious new mini-finales that we saw in recent videos.
The disaster happened inside something that's new to
L4D: stand-off areas in which hordes of zombie-kind are summoned through the press of a button.
Turning on a window cleaner's lift, for example, that takes an age to descend to your level and has squeaky gears that prove an inexplicable zombie attractant.
..The safety of the reloading and equipment areas is just as important in the process of keeping your adrenaline pumping as the vast areas where you're at the mercy of the zombies' AI director. Tooling up and moving out is just as important as running away and screaming.
Although extremely vague in its description, at least it's something. These mini-finales were first mentioned in a Kotaku article describing the warehouse having sand bags and a mounted machine gun. We also saw in an IGN video what looked like a stand-off/mini-finale in the generator room of Hospital, with the player pressing a button on the wall to turn on the lights and slowly start to open a large metal door. In the above quote, CVG describes a ride on a window cleaner's lift to get down from a building. That's three different mini-finales in the Hospital scenario alone: warehouse, lift, and generator. In the GameVideos video we saw a full run-through of the first map which did not contain one of these mini-finales, so it sounds like there could be one mini-finale in every map besides the first and actual finale map. This could be awesome, hopefully we'll hear more details soon.
Will Porter in the CVG preview enjoyed what he played:
The lovely Zoe got the full force of my ineptitude - straight in the gullet. No shadow of a lie, Left 4 Dead is as good as you want it to be.
It's becoming increasingly apparent that any shit game can be rendered half-decent by the addition of co-operative play, but no FPS has ever had it balanced or paced this well.
Or has ever been built entirely around the concept, come to that. Later this year the dead shall rise, and together we will rejoice.
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