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Valve Announces Left 4 Dead 3, Due October 2009
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Bellevue, WA – Fresh off the heels of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Valve Software dropped another bombshell this week, announcing a third entry in their zombie survival series Left 4 Dead. “We are very excited to continue this franchise,” said Gabe Newell, founder and managing director of Valve. “We know our fans can’t wait to confront the zombie hordes again. And so we proudly announce our next title, Left 4 Dead 3, coming to PC and Xbox 360 consoles in October… of this year!”
The original Left 4 Dead was released to popular and critical acclaim in November of 2008 and has sold over 2.5 million copies. A sequel, Left 4 Dead 2, was announced at this year’s E3 and is slated for release in November of 2009.
Regarding the release date, Newell had this to say: “I know that this announcement means that Left 4 Dead 3 will actually release before Left 4 Dead 2, which might not make sense to some. But we’re just so excited about what we’ve done with this game that we want to get it into the gamer’s hands as soon as we can.”
Pressed about the quick turnaround in new titles, Valve’s Chet Faliszek assuaged some fears. ”We came up with some really cool ideas during the development of Left 4 Dead 2 but the programmers had already written a bunch of code so we were kinda like: ‘Screw it, let’s make a NEW game!’ And we did! Besides, there was no way our cool new changes could have been applied to the previous games–I mean, it’s not like there’s some kind of magical ‘patch’ we could apply that would update them.”
Valve promises that Left 4 Dead 3 won’t disappoint. Players will get to take the role of one of four survivors: Joey, Francine, Louie, or Phil. New enemies include The Burper (who belches toxic smoke on players) and multi-ethnic zombies dressed in culture-specific clothing. The highly-touted A.I. Director feature, which dynamically ramps up the tension and difficulty for the players, has undergone some major changes as well. Valve wouldn’t reveal all the details, but an e-mail response did offer this tidbit: “Let’s just say the A.I. Director is a lot smarter and a lot more powerful this time around. You might just find yourself fighting your way to the escape vehicle in a movie and BOOM–your Xbox reboots. That’s the A.I. director at work[url=http://www.theodoresworld.net/pics/0408/BOYImage3.jpg].[/url]”
And what about new weapons? ”We’re replacing the Sniper Rifle with a bow and arrow, since it’ll do about as much good against the Horde. Oh, and there’s now a sawed-off shotgun and, wait for it, a slightly better sawed-off shotgun. Zombies beware!”
Major retailers are now taking pre-orders for Left 4 Dead 2, Left 4 Dead 3, and Left 4 Dead 4 which was just announced during the writing of this story.[/quote]
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I voted no because I wanted to be pessimist.
I voted no because it's an episodic portion of a game that's taking longer that most other games take to design from the ground up.
Didn't they promise there will be an Asian guy with some name what I don't remember
What is that source anyway, and why should I trust it ?
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[quote]Left 4 Dead 4 which was just announced during the writing of this story.[/quote]
Obviously a joke
It's an obvious joke once you read through it. It's pretty funny either way. :v:
It's taking way too long for just one episode, like it brings me to wonder if there's even a team working on it, it's like they divided up the teams to TF2 and L4D, then got the one left over guy who had just gotten out of brain surgery where they had to remove the one side of it he used, and put him on episode 3.
Ignoring the joke, no.
Joke or not, 99.9% of me died inside.
I think your all forgetting that the episodes were probably being made just before HL2 came out. Episode 1 wasn't exactly massive, and needed very few new models, so it probably take that long to do. From what we've seen from the sketches, creating an entirely combine map set outside is going to take a while to just model, never mind make.
I remember last year when they said they might reveal something before christmas 08
[QUOTE=Hell-met;18406059]I remember last year when they said they might reveal something before christmas 08[/QUOTE]
Not "they", just Doug Lombardi, he said that maybe they will release something before the end of the year
Edit :
And the probably meant "This year" in Valve time
Dude.
It.
Will.
FUCKING.
[highlight]COME.[/highlight]
They aren't going to leave us with a cliff hanger like that for their fucking mothership game.
Actually, my hope is increasing.
I don't know why though . . .
maybe because VALVe will have to announce something after L4D2 to keep the attention on them?
[quote]“Let’s just say the A.I. Director is a lot smarter and a lot more powerful this time around. You might just find yourself fighting your way to the escape vehicle in a movie and BOOM–your Xbox reboots. That’s the A.I. director at work.”[/quote]
Heh, I chuckled.
Tf3
I think we'll see Portal 2 before we even get a glimpse of Episode 3.
ARG! well this gives me time to get my computer working and to play ep 1 and 2.
Episode 3 might be the last of the Half-life games if there is no Half-life 3 (or 4 if they consider all the episodes Half-life 3).
So Episode 3 might be as long (or atleast as epic), if not longer, than Half-life 2
so, Left 4 Dead 2 Came out in November, but Left 4 Dead 3 is slated for October? Sweet. 2 sequels in 2 months!
L4D3 is coming out last month!
I will always, ALWAYS have hope for Half life episode 3 (or simply Half life 3)
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;18418778]Episode 3 might be the last of the Half-life games if there is no Half-life 3 (or 4 if they consider all the episodes Half-life 3).
So Episode 3 might be as long (or atleast as epic), if not longer, than Half-life 2[/QUOTE]
Fuckin better be
ITT: People don't realize this is a joke
I thought it was hilarious. I was just agreeing with that guy.
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Loved the "AI Director" part.
I bet Ep3 is almost finished, they just are holding back all info from us.
[QUOTE=ZestyLemons;18429165]ITT: People don't realize this is a joke[/QUOTE]
2 idiots =/= all the people in the thread
I think they want to make portal 2 before they finish ep 3 so they can make the storyline more rich and possibly introduce more characters.
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