To me, the reason why co-op zombie shooters are enticing is because it's fun to kill the undead with your buddies, not because I want to bolt for the safe room as fast as I possibly can. Carefully-designed chokepoints force players to cooperate and clear each area strategically - Left 4 Dead's levels were a lot easier to exploit in comparison, which led to the development of speedrunning strategies that I found boring. The way the levels are designed is great as well. The snappy arcade-style gunplay is nothing short of phenomenal.

The arcade-style gunplay is nothing short of phenomenal thanks to how snappy and responsive it is, and there are a large amount of different weapons available to choose from and come across as you traverse each level (there are plenty of attachments you can find out in the wild for your guns, too). The best way I can describe Back 4 Blood is that it's essentially everything players love about the Left 4 Dead experience, but better. After playing for several hours, I feel confident in saying that Back 4 Blood is nothing short of excellent and is offering everything a Left 4 Dead fan could ask for. Turtle Rock Studios is looking to recapture the magic of that formula with Back 4 Blood, while also iterating on it by adding a dynamic card-based loadout system to the mix alongside modern gunplay and improved level design.Ĭurious to see how the game was coming along since I last checked it out during the Back 4 Blood Closed Alpha preview period, I hopped into a beta build of the game that Windows Central was invited to test out ahead of the full Back 4 Blood open beta that's starting this week.

Left 4 Dead's huge variety of weapons, zombie types, and the game's AI director that altered zombie spawns and available supplies in each level based on player performance all helped make each of its campaigns incredibly fun to replay. One of the most anticipated games coming out in 2021 is Back 4 Blood, the spiritual successor to the co-op zombie shooter series Left 4 Dead made by many of its original developers.

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