Cinematic game
It’s easy to feel like zombies are, culturally speaking, quite playful. But Left 4 Dead 2 came out a year earlier The walking dead TV show, back in the days when most of our understanding of zombie pop culture came from movies like Dawn of the dead.
Left 4 Dead 2 proudly wears its zombie influences on its sleeve. Each level has a very cinematic feel, both in terms of how the action is presented and how that action is influenced by a number of zombie and horror classics.
It works well for creating an atmosphere and suspense within the levels. While the “meat” of this game usually involves frantically battling hordes of zombies, there are plenty of quiet areas you’re just trying to survive (and avoid running into that damn witch).
Being constantly alert to the sights or sounds of the enemy creates an atmosphere of tension and terror. Fortunately, this is interrupted by adequate doses of macabre humor.
Macabre humor
Much of Left 4 Dead 2 is bleak. After all, the setting is a zombie apocalypse! But the game finds a chance to throw in some dark humor wherever possible.
Sometimes you can find funny things scribbled on shelter walls by survivors. However, most of the humor in the game comes from the different characters you can play as.
Each character has a distinct personality and quirky characteristics. At various times, you may hear jokes, backstory, or just unexpectedly humorous responses to the insanity happening around you.
This humor provides a nice relief from the aforementioned tension. And it helps to shape your team of heroes as real individuals instead of random video game characters.
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