How many melee weapons are there in Left 4 Dead 2? Do you have a count? And there's a couple other little pieces that help do that and make it feel, hopefully, a little more natural. Yeah, so we've actually refined our tools a little bit to help us do that a little bit better. Do you have more of that this time around? Did you play around with that a little more? You can even make them say things by hitting the right button. The Left 4 Dead featured a lot of back-and-forth banter between the characters. I'm much more interested in trying to solve the problem of telling the story to players in the game. If you look at the Team Fortress 2 shorts, they do a good job of telling the story there. I think movies do a really good job of telling that. We don't want to have that kind of confusion and, really, our goal and our interest is to tell stories in the game not in cutscenes. We want people to be able to jump in because, for whatever we do, equally there's going to be as many people that just want to start on the fifth campaign and play that first with their friends. This time we're seeing what it's like to be in a city before the infection hits And you see different people's reaction to that, as you cross around the country, and there's some other bits we tie in with the original Left 4 Dead in Left 4 Dead 2 as well.Īre there more traditional story elements this time around? Like more cutscenes? This time we're seeing what it's like to be in a city before the infection hits. The infection had been there for a little bit. Left 4 Dead 1's world was at the same stage every place you went. I think that's one of those 'I'm just going to ask you to wait and see.' Some of it is simply.

How do you do that with a game like this? So, you guys have talked about fleshing out the story in Left 4 Dead 2 a bit more, and having a more involved plot. Read on for insight into the differences between Left 4 Dead and its upcoming sequel, the possibility of user-created levels on Xbox 360 and just what's possible with the L4D2 editing tools: During PAX 2009, we stopped by Valve's booth to chat with Chet Faliszek, one of the leading minds behind Left 4 Dead 2.

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