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Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)

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Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter video game.
It is the sequel to Valve Corporation's award-winning Left 4 Dead. The game launched on November 17, 2009,for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in the United States and November 20 in Europe; in 2010, Left 4 Dead 2 was made available to the Steam client for Mac OS X.
The game is currently being ported to the Linux platform as part of Valve's initiative to develop Source-based games and its Steam software on the OS.
It builds upon the cooperatively-focused gameplay of the original and uses Valve's proprietary Source engine, the same game engine used in Left 4 Dead.
The game made its world premiere at E3 2009 with a trailer during the Microsoft press event.
Like the original, Left 4 Dead 2 is set during the aftermath of an apocalyptic pandemic, and focuses on four survivors fighting against hordes of the infected, who develop severe psychosis and exhibit zombie-like tendencies.
The survivors must fight their way through levels, interspersed with safe houses that act as checkpoints, with the goal of reaching a rescue vehicle at the campaign's finale.
The gameplay is procedurally altered by an artificial intelligence engine dubbed the "Director" that monitors the players' performance and adjusts the scenario to provide a dynamic challenge.
Several new features have been introduced: new types of infected, melee weapons, and a story-arc that connects the game's five campaigns together.
When it was released, it received a combination of positive and negative critical and community reactions.
It attracted an unusually high volume of pre-release controversy about the game's graphic content.
In response, alterations were made to the cover art and both Australia (due to having no R18+ rating) and Germany refused to rate the unmodified edition.
After release however, the game was met with positive reviews.
Left 4 Dead 2 includes 4 game modes:

Campaign: up to four human players fight against the Infected to make their way through Campaign stages; any Survivor not controlled by a human player is controlled by the computer.

Versus: up to four other human players take control of various Special Infected to try and prevent the Survivors from completing a stage.
Special Infected are randomly assigned, one player typically controls a "non-pinning" Infected which cannot "trap" a Survivor (such as a Boomer or Spitter).
Occasionally, as determined by the "AI Director", players will become the Tank. The two teams swap sides once per chapter and are scored based on their playthrough as Survivors.
Points are given based on progress on the stage. If both teams make it to the saferoom with all four Survivors, a 25-point tiebreaker is awarded to the team that dealt the most combined damage as Special Infected.

Survival: a timed challenge where the Survivors are trapped in a section of the campaign maps, and try to survive as long as possible against an unending onslaught of Infected.

Scavenge: a new 4-on-4 mode that requires the Survivor players to collect and use as many fuel cans scattered about a level to maintain the fuel of power generators, while the Infected players attempt to stop them.

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