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el 23-Jun-2008 |  Left 4 Dead will live or die by its artificial intelligence. But it won't be the AI driving the undead that make or break the game, it will be the computer intelligence driving the game's direction.
Talking to a gathering of journalists last week, Valve's Gabe Newell talked up the company's upcoming co-op survival horror shooter. The game is based on four movies each of which gamers play through as survivors trying to escape an army of the undead. The game will also support an infected versus survivor mode and a split-screen cooperative mode. In Left 4 Dead gamers live out a horror movie, but to do that the game has to be able to react to the situation, Newell said. The developers managed to do that by having the game procedurally generate character performance, pacing, lighting and music. This means that depending on how you play and how those with you play the game plays out differently every time/ For instance, Newell showed us a situation where the four survivors of the game barely make it to a gas station near a safe room. The characters, all near death, are confronted by a small number of zombies which slowly appear out of pockets of shadow. When shown a second time, with the players in much better shape, with more ammo, the zombies stream out of the four corners of the screen coming at the players from all sides until one of the group blows up the nearby gas station, sending it's roof first floating up on a ball of flame and then crashing down among the walking dead. "The director is a bunch of AI," Newell said. "It sets the stage for climaxes, the pacing. It writes script for your character, creates the drama around you." I experienced this first hand when playing through a level of the game first hand. Lured away from my group by a zombie, when I ran to find them again I found myself facing the city of zombies by myself and quickly killed. It was a classic "Don't go in there" moment for me. Newell says that's the brilliance of the game . "The game is going to play different every time," he said.
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| Left 4 Dead Out On November 20 [Left 4 Dead] | | Left 4 Dead was coming out on November 4. Was! Not is. Because it's had a slight change. In an interview with Gamekings, Valve's Gabe Newell has announced that the game will now be out on November 20. Doesn't have the "4" tie-in they were originally shooting for, [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Aug-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Left 4 Dead Gabe Newell News Valve
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| Left 4 Dead Demo Coming For Xbox & PC [Left 4 Dead] | | Valve's Gabe Newell has announced a playable demo of the co-op survival horror game Left 4 Dead that will be released for both Xbox 360 and PC and will feature both single player mode and online co-op play. As for content, New [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Sep-2008 by Stuart Houghton in Left 4 Dead 360 Demo News PC Survival Valve Xbox Zombies
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| OPM: EA developing Left 4 Dead for PS3 |  Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Action
It's no secret that Valve's Gabe Newell isn't a staunch supporter of the PlayStation 3 -- well, that's putting it lightly. The Half-Life creator actually referred to the sy [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Aug-2008 by Griffin McElroy in eaea-gamesElectronic-artsgabe-newellleft-4-deadps3turtle-rock-studiosvalve
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| Valve reveals new cast for Left 4 Dead |  Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360
At the Electronic Arts press conference, Valve's Gabe Newell revealed that Left 4 Dead sports a new cast of main characters. Here's your quartet, shown above, with bigger pictures in the gall [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Jul-2008 by Ross Miller in e3e3-2008eaelectronic-artsgabe-newellleft-4-deadleft4deadvalve
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| "Blizzard Creates A New Iron Man Every Month" [Gabe Newell] | | Valve talk the talk and certainly walk the walk. It's the great deal, so when Valve exec Gabe Newell says that PC gaming isn't dead (it's not!) and that PCs have a significant platform advantage (they do!), you know the dude means it. Here Newell puts everything in perspective with a nod to developer [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Jun-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Gabe Newell Blizzard News Pc Gaming Steam Valve
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| Left 4 Dead demo coming 'early November' |  Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters
Yes, we already knew that there would be a demo for Valve's upcoming co-op zombie survival sim, Left 4 Dead. Therefore, we're not terribly surprised by Gabe Ne [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Oct-2008 by Griffin McElroy in demogabe-newellleft-4-deadvalve
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| Left 4 Dead May Get Machinima Maker Post Launch [Left 4 Dead] | | Valve's Doug Lombardi sat down with us this week to talk on a bunch of topics including the decisions behind the creation of zombie thrill-killer Left 4 Dead and why Microsoft hasn't given up on Games for Windows Live and just moved to Steam. We also learn that Left 4 Dead, w [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Jul-2008 by Brian Crecente in Left 4 Dead Machinima Original Top Valve Software Zombies
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| Left 4 Dead going on world tour |  Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Online
Not unlike the unfortunate victims and eventual accomplices in a zombie apocalypse, Valve's Left 4 Dead will soon be spreading across the world, exposing itse [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Aug-2008 by Ludwig Kietzmann in BraaaaainnsLeft-4-DeadLeipzigPAXValveZombies
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