Additionally, players will need help if incapacitated by taking damage or falling. Specialized enemies have skills that punish teammates who have strayed from the group. However, if you believe that you can survive on skill alone, you are very wrong. The most basic aspect of cooperative strategy in L4D2 is increased force your teammates will help you fight hordes of enemies. L4D2 successfully uses a common enemy to force players to help one another.Ĭollaborative strategy. The mechanics in L4D increase sociality by fostering collaborative strategy, communication, and altruistic gameplay decisions. However, not all games that employ cooperative mechanics are successful. Furthermore, since L4D2 is a team game, players must convince their friends to buy in as well, propagating word-of-mouth advertising and peer pressuring. Cooperative games take advantage of our basic human need to belong. The question then becomes: “What makes the L4D series original and competitive?” According to research by Rina R. Top sellers currently include Destiny, and Call of Duty - titles emblematic of the classic FPS ideal - but also Grand Theft Auto, which is increasingly borrowing from the FPS genre. “Look, my friendly fire is super low.” - RinaĬurrently, the mainstream video game market has no shortage of first person shooters (FPS). This has raised the curiosity of what exactly makes Left 4 Dead 2’s multiplayer so enjoyable to play? The HCI Games Group decided to play, analyze, and review the cooperative experience of Left 4 Dead 2. While using the game’s single-player mode is thrilling and features excellent team and enemy AI, many reviewers suggest that the game’s strength is revealed through its multiplayer experience. With reviews of 9/10 from IGN.com, 9/10 from GameSpot, 4/5 from Common Sense Media, and 4.5/5 from Metacritic, it is one of the most highly-rated collaborative first-person shooter games of all time. L4D itself started as a fan-created mod of Half-Life 2, with the development later taken over by Valve. The immense popularity of the Left 4 Dead (L4D) series has inspired the release of a comic and a large collection of fan-made games and DLC (downloadable content). Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter game developed by Valve Corporation and released in 2009.
Written by Amanda Leo, Samantha Stahlke, Rylan Koroluk, and Rina Wehbe of the HCI Games Group
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