- Publisher: Electronic Arts
- Release Date: Nov 17, 2009
- Also On: Xbox 360
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- Developer: Valve Software
- Genre(s): First-Person Shooters
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 55 out of 55
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Mixed: 0 out of 55
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Negative: 0 out of 55
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100Left 4 Dead 2 is better than its predecessor in nearly every possible way. It’s more demanding, more varied, and more entertaining.
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100When the storms kick up on Hard Rain making it really easy to startle a wandering Witch, escaping the mall in Dead Center, running around a rollercoaster track in Dark Carnival, running a gauntlet of abandoned vehicles across the bridge in The Parish, reviving a dead Survivor in Swamp Fever as a Tank could be heard somewhere behind me and managing to down the Tank with the guy I just saved. Even just writing about it makes me want to jump in and play some more.
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100Left 4 Dead 2 is the Empire Strikes Back of zombie games. The momentum has clearly swung in favor of the bad guys. But also much like Empire, this is clearly the best of the bunch and is a required purchase for fans of the genre.
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85The PC version mirrors all of the good stuff and can be confidently defined as a title that is going to be hours of fun to PC gamers the world over.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 267 out of 359
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Mixed: 35 out of 359
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Negative: 57 out of 359
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