Here, a gaggle of the wandering death-bringers could be anywhere, and are generally everywhere. A scrap-yard full of cars becomes a hazard run of potential alarms that can be set off by stray bullets. Some areas, such as graveyards or hedge-filled parks, change their layouts each time you play, while most levels are not only peppered with far more nooks and crannies to explore, but also provide alternate routes you could follow - whether over rooftops, through side-corridors or around the sides of buildings.Īlso certain locations have been earmarked by Valve to showcase a specialised forms of danger. The variations in environments aren't purely cosmetic though. On a similar note the way that the chronological episodes track day through into night and back out again gives each one a markedly different ambience, alongside moments of visually-scripted beauty -like charging zombies silhouetted against the bright rays of the setting sun.

On a surface level, no end of gloss is provided by the game's Deep South themes - whether you're fighting poverty-struck shirtless hick zombies in 'gator country, or fending off rabid pedestrians amidst the bright curving architecture of New Orleans. Well, no more: the environments in which you'll fight are now vividly different in appearance and design. The sudden and unexpected moments of danger as you turn a corner and see her spindly form sidling directly towards you are on a whole new level of excitable terror -herding your happy band of survivalists away from her and into various cowering positions around the level.ĭespite the variety of locations on show in the original L4D, it can't be denied that it il was also heavy on the nocturnal concrete. Newly unanchored, the wandering crone is now as terrifying as the first time you met her - all the time. Finally, and best of all, all the Witch avoidance schemes you've built up have now been rendered null and void.

In this case a glob of waterproof Boomer bile is far more likely to do the trick - turning the assembled zombies against their muscled Goliath.

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