E3 08: Left 4 Dead to eventually get movie recording, playback

Posted Jul 18th 2008 8:00AM by Samuel Axon
Filed under: Biz, Interviews, FPS, Left 4 Dead Series

During an interview at E3, Valve's Doug Lombardi revealed that the company hopes to add a movie making function to Left 4 Dead at some point after the launch of the core game. He loosely described features that would allow players to record, edit, play back, and possibly share their virtual near-death experiences. Sadly, that functionality probably will not be available for a while; we didn't see it in our own hands-on experience with the game.

Lombardi also mentioned that Valve went to Microsoft, Yahoo!, and RealNetworks when it was first conceptualizing Steam, but was told by all that such a service would only exist "10, 15 years in the future." Of course, now Microsoft operates the separate and struggling Games for Windows Live service, which shares some features with Steam.

And yes, we know the above screenshot features the old, now-replaced Left 4 Dead characters. But how about a little nostalgia?

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Damn, this game is gonna be so addictive!!

And the concept is so simple you wonder why nobody else has done this before!

Valve, you may be proud xDPosted at 10:07AM on Jul 18th 2008 by Asgaro

@ Asgaro

Actually, Capcom tried with Resident Evil Outbreak, and failed. There's was to slow and broken though, and that's why it sucked.Posted at 1:26AM on Jul 19th 2008 by sicsided