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Anyone playing Left 4 Dead?

Woas

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Yes for the most part. Although in versus its death match vs. human controlled unique zombies.

Although there are no points during the game like what you describe that require the environment to be altered while some of the survivors cover and occupied survivor, when a person is successfully attacked by one of the unique zombies, it takes that survivor out of the fight until the other survivors rescue him (or her). So for example, one of the unique zombies is called The Smoker (because he has a horrible smokers cough which the survivors might hear). The Smoker's special ability is that he has a very long frog-like tongue that you can sort of 'snipe' from a distance with. When you hit a survivor, you wrap the tongue around them and start to drag them away/constrict them. The survivor, while wrapped up cannot shoot or move and is at the mercy of his fellow survivors to help him.

Another time is when you are out of health. Each survivor has a normal health bar and then a death bar (sort of like a Wounds and Vitality system). Normal damage reduces your health bar. When it is gone your character falls down and can still shoot their pistol to defend themselves but now you are on the Death bar. If a fellow survivor can get to you before your death bar runs out (it goes down slowly on its own and also goes down from zombies attacking you) they can get you back on your feet with a small amount of health left. These instances are pretty hectic.

So there are times during the game that are really intense much like what you might get from a scenario you are describing with a survivor occupied doing some work while the others cover him. When one of your buddies has been snatched up and getting pulled out of the safe room you are in or you need to elbow-check a crowd of zombies to get to your downed ally to keep him safe it gets you moving and gives you something dramatic to do other than run for the next door and gun down zombies.

Although I think new maps that had situations like what you describe would be a lot of fun too!:cool:
 

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