But how did Left 4 Dead become the 2.5 million-plus seller that it is? How were the Boomer and Smoker born? And what is a Screamer? "Throughout the design process we treated the entire survivor ...

Left 4 Dead 2 does not have this problem ... Nothing eases the frustration of being dragged away from your fellow survivors by a Smoker's tongue like jumping on a survivor's head and jockeying ...

But in Left 4 Dead 2, the monsters started to double up: where's the necessity for the jockey, for instance, when the smoker already works perfectly well to isolate survivors from the main group?

Left 4 Dead 2 offers a wide array of weapons for killing ... which means that you want to use this to target special infected. If the Smoker gets too good an angle to shoot at directly, this ...

Left 4 Dead and its sequel are pretty stripped down ... I still wince when I think about being snagged by a Smoker and dragged into the dark woods while my party selfishly forges onward ...

As if the zombie apocalypse wasn't enough for the survivors to deal with, Left 4 Dead 2's latest mutation ... a spitter, a smoker and four tanks. Okay, maybe our version of the mutation sounds ...

"Left 4 Dead was such a fragile thing that nobody ... They ‘asked me what the f*** I’m smoking’ Former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw says he 'retired too hard', but there's no way he's coming ...

We could write all day about Valve's multiplayer zombie sequel Left 4 Dead 2. From our huge E3 preview to our latest update on the new Scavenge Mode, we've covered everything that's been released ...

Left 4 Dead makes both sides of the zombie apocalypse ... marking them as targets for the ravenous horde of normal zombies; smokers lasso survivors with a long, froglike tongue; hunters pounce ...

Boomer (when it stands too close and explodes), Smokers (only from a Jockey), and a Tank. 3. Team work--Coordinate your attacks, talk with one another. 4. Stay Hidden--If you are wait to ambush or ...

Verdict Whether or not Left 4 Dead 2 is for you really depends on your level of exposure and affinity for the style of hardcore team-focused gameplay Valve is offering here. If you’re still ...