Destructoid review: Left 4 Dead

There’s never been a game like Left 4 Dead. Singleplayer and cooperative videogames have been around since the dawn of the medium, but they’ve never before been combined with such care, style, and intelligence. Left 4 Dead takes the pleasures of a great multiplayer experience and, at least in its campaign mode, marries them with the meticulous pacing and spectacular scenarios of the best singleplayer games.

As a co-op game, Left 4 Dead is literally the best the genre has ever seen. As a competitive experience, it’s still very entertaining, but ultimately conflicted and uneven.