Wired Hands On: Wide-Open ‘Crash Course’ Sets Stage for Left 4 Dead 2
The new "Crash Course" campaign for Left 4 Dead, released Tuesday for Xbox 360 and PC, offers a glimpse into the direction Valve will be taking its co-operative zombie killing shooter come November.
"Crash Course" finds the survivors stranded in the middle of a small Northeastern town overrun with the infected. The environments feel much more open and organic than the four original Left 4 Dead campaigns. Where the early campaigns kept to corridors, sewer tunnels and tightly hemmed passageways, the "Crash Course" landscape feels more wide open. Survivors must navigate exposed stretches of asphalt and are presented with more than a couple alternate routes – some end in dead ends, but others pan out as shortcuts. Vehicles and wreckage are used, effectively, as obstacles.
