Environmental hazards, from tattletale door alarms to flocks of birds, threaten to tip-off the hordes. Each level is loosely tied together by this premise, pushing the characters from place to place as they seek out other survivors and search for safety.
As with Left 4 Dead, players are put on a team of four that must endure waves of incoming zombie hordes by moving between safehouses, which serve as a rest stop of sorts, allowing the player to stock up on health and ammo before setting out again. Back 4 Blood is an appeasing mix of the old and new.
What have players come to expect from games now as opposed to when Left 4 Dead was originally released? How has Back 4 Blood adapted to those expectations?Īt a glance, Turtle Rock Studios seem to have an instinct for how to make the series work for a new audience. But with a few zombie series still alive and kicking (the sequel to Dying Light releases this upcoming February), there’s clearly still an audience there. As zombie games have petered out in popularity, perhaps the lack of Left 4 Dead the past decade was timely. But how has that format aged? The last Left 4 Dead game, a sequel released in 2009, came hot on the heels of 2008’s original, making its over 10-year absence from the games scene a little out of character, if not baffling. From the name itself to its basic structure, it may as well be called Left 4 Dead 3. While not a reboot per se, Back 4 Blood, a new multiplayer zombie game made by Left 4 Dead’s original developers Turtle Rock Studios, is not trying to deny its roots. Often, in trying to catch up, too much is forced in at once, alienating the player while betraying the original look and feel of a game. It’s always interesting to see how a rebooted series adapts to new conventions after a long absence from the games scene.
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