Left 4 Dead

I just got mine today.

Left 4 Dead is coming in roughly four weeks, I’m sure you heard about it. It’s the upcoming post-apocalyptic zombie shooter by Valve, the makers of the awesome Team Fortress 2 and the Half Life series, with raving previews (an extensive preview is here) – everyobdy who played it loves it, it seems.

The Team Fortress 2 guys are working on it as well in these last weeks before release, and there’s a Left 4 Dead Blog meanwhile. With Lego, how cool is that.

It’s got zombies, and tougher boss zombies, and the humans struggle to survive, and there’s some AI stuff going on that tries to match the enemy toughness to the player skill, and generally it looks pretty interesting and great. Anyway. The reason why I’m writing this post is because preorders are open now (on Steam, for example, which is where I got mine), and if you preorder, you also get $5 off. Via Rock Paper Shotgun, and Joystiq.

On the other hand, I’m fairly certain that you’ll hear more about the game in the following weeks, considering Valve plans a $10M ad campaign (via Edge Online). Video games really do have reached the mainstream, don’t you think?