DRAWING BLOOD
It’s telling of Left 4 Dead’s quality that there still isn’t a co-op shooter that has quite outdone it. Unlike many popular multiplayer games of 2021, Left 4 Dead doesn’t ask you to theorycraft a build or study a meta. There’s nothing to understand beyond a few core principles: Shoot and keep moving. That purity is why it was a foundational game for my friends and I over a decade ago and why we still squad up to mow down zombies 13 years later.
We’ve seen plenty of fantastic games riff on Turtle Rock Studios’ original template since the series was unceremoniously shelved in 2009, but only now are its original creators jumping back into fray. With Back 4 Blood, Turtle Rock is staking its flag in the ground and taking back the genre it created. Well, that’s the idea.
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