Gaming Left4Dead Hands-on Preview

"As I mentioned to Chet when I interviewed him, Valve has a reputation among games developers for testing games absolutely to death"

Pity they didn't do this in 2005 with "Day of Defeat Source"

Stick to your team-mates in spawn - check, poke your rifle through someone's chest and miss them when you fire - check

Still waiting for that latest update guys....

Seriously, this looks like a cool game though.

 

No matter what people say, the Source engine is really starting to look aged.

 

It is a bit, but still going pretty well. After all, it's still gameplay that makes a great game.

 

I wonder if this will be the last game to use the source engine, or if they will drag it out a few more years to get all the HL 2's under the same engine.
And I do think this game will be out this year, it's been pushed back heaps already... It feels like the game of 08 to me

 

It has to come out this Q3 2008.

It was already slated to release early 2007 or something.

 

Nice cigarette smoke.

 

Ep3 will be on the source engine, but i suspect that'll be the last one. jeez can you imagine how long it would take to get that last episode out if they were developing a new engine first! I remember reading somewhere that for HL3 they wanted to develop a new engine.

You've never seen valve time have you...

 

Half-Life 3 isn't confirmed yet and Valve has said they will only decide on whether to do a whole new game or continuing episodes after Ep3. If they stay episodic they won't use a new engine IMHO as it won't be worth the effort especially when the Source engine was designed to be so modular.

 

It is showing it's age a bit, but I think a revamp of the engine would do wonders. I still think the games look really good as well, I prefer it that valve try and concentrate on the gameplay rather than trying to make it as shiny as possible.

 

Joe, my envy that you have gotten to play this game can only be described as EPIC.

 

I thought that this game was already out seen previews forever.

 

i was sure we were going to get an AI director/MCP joke in there somewhere...

 

Sold!!!

i want it now!!!!!!!!!

lets start a team thread somewhere when it comes out, so we can avoid useless players

 

So.. any news on a release date

 

Not that I'm aware of yet, no. Q3 is all I know of.

 

Disappointing

I kept hearing rumors of "Sometime in June"