Not even going to mention the fact that single player progression is non-existent and the matchmaking times are so long? Or that there’s no way to kick idle players/griefers? Or that the game insists on having 4 human players before it will even start a level, instead of giving you the choice to start with bots and players can drop in and out as they please? This game has so many issues and none of them have been addressed in this review.
Noticed matchmaking times are dramatically shorter today (Xbox) the game can start with bots, quickplay allows you to drop in when you want at any given act and at any stage of the level you want so yeah...
@@AAlford32 that’s certainly not what’s happening with games right now. But even if games were getting better there should be more scrutiny in the ratings not less.
This game kinda feels a bit generic. The first 3-4 missions are amazing but then the game massively drops down. Additionally the different zombie types hardly differ from one another, the only difference being that the one takes a lot more bullets to kill than the other. Harder difficulties do look fun and grant promising changes but the game suffers from the CoD difficulty disease (anyone who played CoD campagne on harder difficulties will understand), basically your attacks deal less damage and the enemies deal more damage while having more HP. Thats really it.
On the highest difficulty, there are max corruption cards in the pool, including, volatile ridden which can be seen on the very first level of Nightmare, Tallboy/Reeker hordes, and cards that spawn an abundant amount of sleepers all that can spawn on the first level.
Complete the first Act before you move to veteran. Also moving slow and cheesing corners and focusing team firepower has really helped me on veteran. Knowing when to run and retreat is Big. This game is so much fun!
the difficulty being recruit. You might wanna take that as more than a suggestion and go ahead play your whole game to legitimately recruit yourself into it. These difficulty's really truely mean what they say.
The core game seems barebones as hell. We beat the game last night and the replayability is low. They definitely released the game withholding content on purpose. I’m sure the updates will bring a lot of content but the fact they put out the base version with so little to do is lame.
My only real complaint is that while recruit is still a pretty serious challenge, a lot of the team elements are removed. You can break yourself free from enemies, the AI director won’t really punish you for going on your own, and friendly fire is off. While it makes sense to remove those things at the lowest difficulty, when you are intended to and essentially forced to play the lowest difficulty first it means you have to grind through the game without the main mechanics of the series present. While I’m enjoying the game, it just kind of feels like an on rails shooter without the need to constantly be communicating and coordinating with my teammates to make sure we always have each other’s backs. And that me and my friends may as well not even be in the same game.
@@feelsgoodman420 It is in the beginning but once the levels get higher it has its intense moments. It's always survivable though. Veteran on the other hand. lol takes a beast team and luck on which ridden spawn and how many.
"Dear diary... *insert remaining review here* " Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Kyle enjoyed the game and the review is pretty spot on but OOF this video sounds like I'm listening to an overdue dissertation
Yeah devs these days realy think its enough to bring beloved games into Unreal 4 and slap a bunch of post processing onto to warent its $60 price tag. This is such a downgrade to l4d2s genius game design, it genuinly feels like a chinese knockoff.
@@jayjaymerritt2785 its not tho, and Geralt has a right to be mad about how this company is going about riding off of peoples nostalgia for L4D. by that same logic, "shadows of the damned" is a "spiritual successor" to Doom since they both shoot demons in a hellscape, right?
This game is loads of fun! The guns look and sounds great. The whole arsenal from COD MW2. The elite Zombies are always out to get you. Nonstop action.
If you compared back for blood with left4dead2, it would be a crushing blow for the new game. The UNreal engine is not suited for zombie slashing. No decapitations anymore... Its not a step forward...
They've killed their own game when they decided that people playing solo isn't able to earn anything at all, not even achievements. Also you can't drop attachments manually but you can actually see them falling yo the ground if you replace them, and now they're adding a card if people want to do that, like wtf? A card? Nobody's gonna use it, it should be on for everyone by default
@@Apple-xx3wh Not really. How else is one going to form an opinion and ensure it’s still accurate? If Skillup or ACG are 8’s or 9’a this review was a 2 at best. IGN is completely shamed by some outlets. Coupled with there un willingness to offend publishers at any cost and you don’t have a credible source for evaluating a game. However you could make the argument they are entertainingly bad.
As someone that bought the Xbox 360 just for left 4 dead 2 and put a lot of time in playing it, back 4 blood is a lot easier to play compared to the originals.
This is not meant to be a looter shooter, it is meant to be a cooperative 4 player zombie game from the creators of Left 4 Dead, which gives it the expectation of being like left 4 dead.
Watching this while I’m waiting for the servers to find me a game. It’s been 6 minutes already. Thank Game Pass 🙏 it’s honestly shameful you guys don’t mention how awful parts of this game are. It’s very clear that L4D nostalgia has people blind on this one.
Not even worthy of an 8/10. “From the developers of Left 4 Dead” is just a poor marketing gimmick being shoved down our throats at this point. This so called “spiritual successor” lacks personality and charm. It’s a wait for sale at best.
At least give 2 Player Local Co-Op on consoles like Borderlands 3. otherwise no reason to buy this playing with unknown people sitting alone in my room.
Had zero interest in this game or any like. Played with a couple friends and had a blast. The patch that just came out really improved sim on console too.
Everything about this game is fun. Its not easy, lots of zombies, mutations, boss zombies supply points to grind, deck cards for melee is so fun to use everything about this game is fun. Expect for stalkers lmao
Fun game for sure. Loved the OG L4D games so been waiting and wanting a new gen version. Not gonna a game to play and stick with on the long haul for sure but to play while you wait for other games to come out or for just a chill pve game to play sometimes for sure worth it
dang tried to stay loyal to left 4 dead series. should of went with my gut and got world war z. back 4 blood is disappointing, especially no couch co-op
Just my opinion but this game is terrible. Played 1 level solo, it’s a laggy mess and graphics are really average. Definitely not a premium priced game
@@yougotkained nah dude if the first impression doesn’t stick than overall someone’s opinion is gonna stay the same on something and general consensus from actual gamers, not reviewers, is mixed but mostly negative too.
The “clever card based system” is anything but. It’s needlessly complicated, and will instantly turn off new players in a way that L4D never would. This game is from the studio that made Evolve, NOT Left 4 Dead.
This game is not worth your time its as simple as that, I'd rather play a game actually worth like project zomboid or I'd just go play l4d2 for the 100,000 time and still have more fun then wasting time with b4b
It has great variety when progressing through the levels footage of shooting zombies switches to footage of shooting zombies in a ruined city scape gotta love diverse levels
Either IGN pays for all these positive comments or they delete the negative ones. This game comes nowhere close to L4D.
yeah it is much much better. L4D can't compare.
Not even going to mention the fact that single player progression is non-existent and the matchmaking times are so long? Or that there’s no way to kick idle players/griefers? Or that the game insists on having 4 human players before it will even start a level, instead of giving you the choice to start with bots and players can drop in and out as they please? This game has so many issues and none of them have been addressed in this review.
Single player!!! Please someone talk about this
You can play in a group of 2 or 3 with the ai filling the extra spots
Bro the video game just came out. You expect the matchmaking to be quick? Such a dumbass
Quick for me
Noticed matchmaking times are dramatically shorter today (Xbox)
the game can start with bots, quickplay allows you to drop in when you want at any given act and at any stage of the level you want so yeah...
Ever since they took out the .5 value everything gets an 8
you mean 7
it was .1
Maybe games are just getting better over time. Like cars now compared to the model T
@@AAlford32 that’s certainly not what’s happening with games right now. But even if games were getting better there should be more scrutiny in the ratings not less.
@@AAlford32 by that logic in 2030 every game will get a 12
This game kinda feels a bit generic. The first 3-4 missions are amazing but then the game massively drops down. Additionally the different zombie types hardly differ from one another, the only difference being that the one takes a lot more bullets to kill than the other.
Harder difficulties do look fun and grant promising changes but the game suffers from the CoD difficulty disease (anyone who played CoD campagne on harder difficulties will understand), basically your attacks deal less damage and the enemies deal more damage while having more HP. Thats really it.
That end paragraph sounds like most games on harder difficulty lol
Cry more nothing wrong with the game at all
@@thickgirlsneedlove2190 game is a POS!!
On the highest difficulty, there are max corruption cards in the pool, including, volatile ridden which can be seen on the very first level of Nightmare, Tallboy/Reeker hordes, and cards that spawn an abundant amount of sleepers all that can spawn on the first level.
The only difference with the hard difficulty is that it's harder 😂
Complete the first Act before you move to veteran. Also moving slow and cheesing corners and focusing team firepower has really helped me on veteran. Knowing when to run and retreat is Big. This game is so much fun!
what the hell
@@dd52161 noooo cry more
Is there not single player?
I'm surprised how hard the game is. The card system is obviously going to be VITAL.
It’s the heart of the game. Changes the experience you have.
It's crazy. Even on the easiest difficulty doing co-op with my friends we still manage to get overrun at times
@@havoc025 doesn't really change it that much
@@TJ-js7uf changes the entire feel and way you play. Yeah it does.
@@AnabolicSaagAloo lol yea, thats what it does
The no split screen really makes this game take a nosedive for most people there’s nothing like playing coop with family on the same screen
Idk where you been but not many games have split screen option anymore
@@presidentialkingdom2201 wish they could bring it back but no 😢
Split Screen ? Damn you still living in the 90s 😂
@@jjw4600 Better than living in the 20s, you seen the world these days?
What's family
Valve: Won't release a *third* Left 4 Dead
Turtle Rock Studios (same devs who created Left 4 Dead): *Fine, I'll do it myself*
guess what they cant make left 4 dead 3 and its not anything near to left 4 dead. l4d is unbeatable.
Look at the video Bear Gaming Asia made where he compares the two. B4B is objectively worse and lacking.
@@masonbain7098 valve can’t make l4d3 since turtle rock left valve a long time ago
@@masonbain7098 Lol this is better than L4D. Your stuck in nostalgia
@@rez4407 No
the difficulty being recruit. You might wanna take that as more than a suggestion and go ahead play your whole game to legitimately recruit yourself into it. These difficulty's really truely mean what they say.
This review feels and sounds like a high school project
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Welcome to ign
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@Jiggy B imagine defending ign
@Jiggy B are you a bot???
Honesty, this game has been some of the most fun I’ve had in a long time.
im loving it to
Saanmmeeee
Solo and with friends, this game has given me the most fun I've had in about 2 years
Likewise
Your life must be that boring):
The core game looks fun but I'm gonna see how they update this game.
Don't play with friends and have fun
Spoken like any true battlefield player since 2011
Just my luckkkk!!!!
@RTX 3090 ON you sound like an absolute fun vacuum
The core game seems barebones as hell. We beat the game last night and the replayability is low. They definitely released the game withholding content on purpose. I’m sure the updates will bring a lot of content but the fact they put out the base version with so little to do is lame.
Can't stop coming back to this game. Even after beating all the chapters on recruit and now consistently dying on veteran. It's still fun asf.
My only real complaint is that while recruit is still a pretty serious challenge, a lot of the team elements are removed. You can break yourself free from enemies, the AI director won’t really punish you for going on your own, and friendly fire is off. While it makes sense to remove those things at the lowest difficulty, when you are intended to and essentially forced to play the lowest difficulty first it means you have to grind through the game without the main mechanics of the series present. While I’m enjoying the game, it just kind of feels like an on rails shooter without the need to constantly be communicating and coordinating with my teammates to make sure we always have each other’s backs. And that me and my friends may as well not even be in the same game.
Recruit is soooo boring
@@feelsgoodman420 It is in the beginning but once the levels get higher it has its intense moments. It's always survivable though. Veteran on the other hand. lol takes a beast team and luck on which ridden spawn and how many.
Right!!
@@Alphabunsquad agree
This game is soo much fun. Loving it! So glad it’s on gamepass.
*See this and download it immediately
Yea im enjoying it also
same here game pass
Same
gamepass is so much better than ps plus 🥲
"Dear diary... *insert remaining review here* "
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Kyle enjoyed the game and the review is pretty spot on but OOF this video sounds like I'm listening to an overdue dissertation
it does sound a little too testimonial
To save you time it’s a 8 out of 10
Let's bring it up!
Thanks. Time to watch the video
When is it not
The hero we deserve but don’t need
0:55 the game has 8 playable characters, not 7 🙂
This is a great game pass game and for everyone that is a fan the left for dead style games.
This game has nothing similar to l4d
"We played 16 hrs on recruit and managed to get halfthru the tutorial..gud game 8/10"
Honestly, this is one of the most underrated gems in recent years.
This really doesn’t sound like a critical evaluation of pros and cons at all… just an English major blowing the game as eloquently as he can…
he certainly blew it alright
This is probably the best way to put it. Sounds extremely pretentious and more just flaunting his vocabulary via a thesaurus lol.
New games are so underwhelming once the gameplay shows up
Yeah devs these days realy think its enough to bring beloved games into Unreal 4 and slap a bunch of post processing onto to warent its $60 price tag. This is such a downgrade to l4d2s genius game design, it genuinly feels like a chinese knockoff.
@@ChrisBa303 Lucky it's on Gamepass
Yeh played on Gamepass nothing special. Hope game pass targets the higher rated AAA. Scarlet nexus was an awesome one but we need more like that.
@@ChrisBa303 personally thought the original left 4 dead was better then 2.
Only the big ones. If anyone is disappointed by this give deep rock galactic a try
This game more than any other really should have had a survival/gauntlet style mode. I'm probably alone in this.
YES like wtf
Yeah exactly that would make the game for me
Honestly don't get why people complain about a score from a game they haven't even purchased and played🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Take a day off, christ.
because people played the beta and see how little has improved
Don’t use the lords name in vane
Your going to hell
@@OrganizationXIII 🙏
@@OrganizationXIII If he's real lol. Plenty of other religions could be real as well
@@OrganizationXIII so are you judging people 🙄
So excited for this. It reminds me of Left 4 Dead which is the game that made me love Zombie games.
It is the sequel for that game
@@s550tv8 Its no fking sequel, stfo if you dont know.
@@DavidVideoRecords It is the spiritual sequel you human priapism.
@@jayjaymerritt2785 its not tho, and Geralt has a right to be mad about how this company is going about riding off of peoples nostalgia for L4D. by that same logic, "shadows of the damned" is a "spiritual successor" to Doom since they both shoot demons in a hellscape, right?
Its L4D2 but worse in every single way
This game is loads of fun! The guns look and sounds great. The whole arsenal from COD MW2. The elite Zombies are always out to get you. Nonstop action.
Intervention ?
“With 7 playable characters”.. there are 8 playable characters.
It's because he was looking from the perspective of the eighth
1 out of every 8 players is an NPC
Which means...8/10!
the eight was reserved for the game score
Python list
Glad to see this game finally went from a Okama Game Sphere exclusive to a Steam release.
😂
Wanna get high?
OMG WE DONT CARE WHERE IS IT?
Just nerf the special zombie spawns and decrease the difficulty a bit especially for the standard veteran
This game has a lot of promise but is in desperate need of a post-launch update.
Love this game I’ve been waiting so long for a new ‘left 4 dead’ game.
You should try world war z too
If you compared back for blood with left4dead2, it would be a crushing blow for the new game. The UNreal engine is not suited for zombie slashing. No decapitations anymore... Its not a step forward...
I'm just disappointed there's no split screen...
Killing Floor 2 would like to have a word with you, and for you to hold their beer..
@@musicimpact7120 yea me too
They've killed their own game when they decided that people playing solo isn't able to earn anything at all, not even achievements. Also you can't drop attachments manually but you can actually see them falling yo the ground if you replace them, and now they're adding a card if people want to do that, like wtf? A card? Nobody's gonna use it, it should be on for everyone by default
Evangelo = Louis
Holly = Zoey
Walker = Francis
Mum = Bill
Doc = Nick
Hoffman = Coach
Jim = Ellis
Karlee = Rochelle
It's alright... the gunplay is ok, not too jazzed on the new specialized zombies or the cleaners tbh.
its a shame to see how igns quality of reviews have just gone down the drain.
Where they ever not? Maybe in the pre Ziff Davis days. They’re pretty dire now, and the scoring may as well be a random number between 7 and 10.
Facts!
@@Fishster but you still watch a? Hmmm very strange
@@Apple-xx3wh Not really. How else is one going to form an opinion and ensure it’s still accurate? If Skillup or ACG are 8’s or 9’a this review was a 2 at best. IGN is completely shamed by some outlets. Coupled with there un willingness to offend publishers at any cost and you don’t have a credible source for evaluating a game. However you could make the argument they are entertainingly bad.
this guy is half falling asleep
At 2x speed he sounds normal
Poor soul. Spent all day playing video games :(
Dude probably popped 3 Vyvanse to play the game in 3 days… got that hollow robot sound goin on
101 likes
Suits how you feel while playing
Took you guys long enough, normally your reviews come out before release.
Me And The Guys Love It🔥🔥 Feels Like Left 4 Dead Never Left🥺
Did a teenager write this? The review literally sounds like an essay…
The games mid
Not as great as the original, but definitely an awsome game.
Great fun indeed. Just the difficulty sometime feels uneven (either too easy or way too hard).
Honestly this is 7/10 at best and its not worth 60 bucks
Free on game pass, yes sir
Solo progression is needed
@Piet Iemel yeah but you can't unlock acheivements or cards for multiplayer in solo.
Pro Tip: Stop buying garbage games and people will stop making them. Vote with your money.
This is L4D2 with the soul ripped out of it.
Back here after the crowbcat video. This review did not age well
Lol, it got worse my friend.
As someone that bought the Xbox 360 just for left 4 dead 2 and put a lot of time in playing it, back 4 blood is a lot easier to play compared to the originals.
As ACG would say, wait for a deep deep sale or play it on gamepass.
$20 at best
Trying this crap out with a 1$ dollar subscription to game pass for 30 day's. Hope it's worth ONE DOLLAR!
This game needs a real survival mode
Absolutely. Its kind of wild to me that they didn't implement one, the framework is all already there
More like Back 4 Money!
Nope 0 microttactions
Yeaaaah but it's free on gamepass because they know it's not that great
@@dylanryan4145 no it's just a renting service
@@Junjisboi...for now...
UHUHUHUHUH!
Game devs: we don't have new idea for games
Also game devs: shooting zombies allways work
Yea we just need to have A real zomb apocalypse so we can get the real deal.
@@mariolewis4226 have a president right now is a zomb
Can’t we just have real zombie apocalypse already, I’m tired of all these damn video games
bet u be the first to die or turn😂😂😂💀
🤦🏾♂️🙅🏾♂️🙅🏾♂️🙅🏾♂️
This is not meant to be a looter shooter, it is meant to be a cooperative 4 player zombie game from the creators of Left 4 Dead, which gives it the expectation of being like left 4 dead.
The devs are now abandoning support for the game.
Do you enjoy waiting for 30 mins for a multilayer match? Let's hope so. Owned this game for 1 week and it's dead
Watching this while I’m waiting for the servers to find me a game. It’s been 6 minutes already.
Thank Game Pass 🙏 it’s honestly shameful you guys don’t mention how awful parts of this game are. It’s very clear that L4D nostalgia has people blind on this one.
it takes a long time when u continue run, just make a new run and u get a game immediately
No couch coop. Have to play L4D and L4D2 for that.
Played for 2 hours, got bored and went back to L4D2. Just isnt as charming
L4D2 play way better than this game. The aiming mechanics for this game doesn't feel solid.
My only big complaint is how damn long it takes to get a lobby waited like 30 minutes and nothing for act 2
Probably cuz it’s so damn hard to get through act 1 😂
Playing this with 3 other friends. Worth the price. By urself no way
Agreed, it was fun with 3 of us tonight
Great laugh
@RTX 3090 ON man gimme that 3090
You left out the part where you are punished if you play the game by yourself
The only thing worse than watching an ign review is agreeing with it
Exactly word play. Would expect nothing less from IGN
We need left 4 dead 3
This is left 4 dead 3. Same developers same game
Valve can’t count to three sadly
@@TJ-js7uf lol no. Same studio, not same people. Those people behind the success of l4d before...are all left.
@ you play it yet? It's fun
@@connordoyle5930 nah it’s complete dogshit and repetitive asf
Not even worthy of an 8/10.
“From the developers of Left 4 Dead” is just a poor marketing gimmick being shoved down our throats at this point. This so called “spiritual successor” lacks personality and charm. It’s a wait for sale at best.
Same studio but most of the people who worked on l4d 1 are not on TRS anymore. Plus l4d1 had valve involved
keep crying
Couldn’t agree more pal!!!!
Predictions when the first (pc) discount/sale occurs?
thats what im waiting for myself
Just get gamepass for a month that’ll do it lol
It’s gonna be a couple months usually how it goes
just get xbox gamepass
It’s on game pass pc, doesn’t seem likely to see a discount for a year
NOTHING BEATS L4D!
At least give 2 Player Local Co-Op on consoles like Borderlands 3. otherwise no reason to buy this playing with unknown people sitting alone in my room.
it literally has that lol, just enable private campaign lobby
@@jei8028 he's talking about split screen, which doesn't have.
@@lemonade3909 oh my bad
IGN defiantly has some sort of deal with Turtle Rock to promote this game positively. An 8/10 for a 5/10 lackluster shell of a game…
Or an opinion because those exist
@@marquisbush8985 Theres no such thing.
Lol you sound so mad lol clown
Had zero interest in this game or any like. Played with a couple friends and had a blast. The patch that just came out really improved sim on console too.
As a l4d veteran, this game is a lot of fun
Everything about this game is fun. Its not easy, lots of zombies, mutations, boss zombies supply points to grind, deck cards for melee is so fun to use everything about this game is fun. Expect for stalkers lmao
There is no zombies in this game. Only mutants
This game should have been called WALMART SHOPPING DURING COVID PANDEMIC
Fun game for sure. Loved the OG L4D games so been waiting and wanting a new gen version. Not gonna a game to play and stick with on the long haul for sure but to play while you wait for other games to come out or for just a chill pve game to play sometimes for sure worth it
opposite for me. this is THE game I'll be sticking with for the long haul
Wait so this isn’t a Left 4 Dead sequel?
It's just another wait for sale
Gamepass bro!
Why buy it when you can play it on gamepass
Y’all make a mistake every review… dude said 7 playable characters ain’t no way you played for 25 hours…
He’s excluding evangelo 🤦🏻♂️
My man whipped out the thesaurus to hit the word count on this one
Game deserved like a 4 if that.
You sound like 4 inches
@@garden0fstone736 naw. I’m not a white or Asian.
bro the game is awesome yall gotta play it on game pass
It's on Xbox pass whilst the Sony players have to buy full price, 8/10.
I'm a Sony player and have game pass, but no Xbox
My gun play is awful in my ps4 version is there anyway to make the gun mechanics better
looks like a $30 game at most. with all dlc
Agreed.
Lol, somebody literally predicted that because Gamespot gave the game a 7 you guys would give it an 8. 😂
World War Z Aftermath is a far superior product! B4B has potential, but needs a lot of work to be great.
dang tried to stay loyal to left 4 dead series. should of went with my gut and got world war z. back 4 blood is disappointing, especially no couch co-op
"My favorite is Karlee..." Ah, you've made the right decision for the artist ;)
Just my opinion but this game is terrible. Played 1 level solo, it’s a laggy mess and graphics are really average. Definitely not a premium priced game
Wait, so you've played 1 level? Dude, play the game before giving your opinion lol. I'm going to do the same
Just my opinion but your comment is terrible. Read one word.
Laggy? On what platform?
@@yougotkained nah dude if the first impression doesn’t stick than overall someone’s opinion is gonna stay the same on something and general consensus from actual gamers, not reviewers, is mixed but mostly negative too.
This game is much better than world war z.
The “clever card based system” is anything but. It’s needlessly complicated, and will instantly turn off new players in a way that L4D never would.
This game is from the studio that made Evolve, NOT Left 4 Dead.
This game is not worth your time its as simple as that, I'd rather play a game actually worth like project zomboid or I'd just go play l4d2 for the 100,000 time and still have more fun then wasting time with b4b
Lmao why is every review a 8/10
The balancing is terrible in this game, finished it on easy but the normal difficulty is ridiculous. Do not buy, get it on gamepass if you can
It has great variety when progressing through the levels footage of shooting zombies switches to footage of shooting zombies in a ruined city scape gotta love diverse levels
It's not diverse
Half the game reuses one level
The end boss is a joke
The first act is literally revisiting itself more than once, yeah there isn't much variety.
Ps5 players do not buy. Worst £60 I’ve ever spent on a game.
Aiming is awful for console.
Why? How is it awful?
get better aim
No offline single player? Fudge you. There's my review.
Not gonna get tis in full price.
They need to make it where some people can be the zombie in some other people games to stop them from completing the story
Dying Light
Evil dead
This came does not come close to Left4dead. The gameplay is not nearly as fun.
Dry and monotonous.
Don’t get this game.