The Best of Big Download: November 17-23

Posted Nov 23rd 2008 7:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Meta BD

Killing zombies is fun, whether it's the fast Left 4 Dead variety or the slow Nazis in Call of Duty: World at War. While we go back to some undead shooting fun you can check out Big Download's features and highlights from the past week

Exclusive features

Reviews: We give our final verdicts for Left 4 Dead, Sacred 2, Quantum of Solace, Strong Bad Episode 4 and American McGee's Grimm: Cinderella.
Things we love (and hate) about Left 4 Dead: Our gallery feature takes a look at the highs and lows of Valve's latest first person shooter.
Beyond mods: Our gallery feature takes a look at first person shooter mods that have changed into full fledged retail game titles.
Mac Monday: Our weekly look at Macintosh gaming is the casual city sim Jane's Reality.
Boot Disk: Our weekly look at retro gaming takes a look at the original King's Quest.
Independent Minds: Our weekly indie games feature takes a look at originality in game titles.
Big Ideas: Why are so called horror games not that scary? Our weekly look at game trends tries to answer this question.
Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free games is all about the strategy-sim title Simutrans.
Contests: You still have time to enter our contests to win copies of Left 4 Dead, Sacred 2 and beta codes for Battleforge.

Downloads

A Vampyre Story Demo - Check out a sample of the new adventure game from developer Autumn Rain
Strong Bad: Episode 4 Demo - It's a sample of the latest chapter in Telltale Games' episodic adventure game series
Red Alert 3 1.04 Patch - It's the latest patch for EA's RTS game
Crysis Wars 1.2 Patch - Crytek's multiplayer shooter gets a new update
Spore 1.03 Patch - We have the latest patch for EA's alien evolution sim game
Mirror's Edge PC trailer - Check out the PhysX effects in the upcoming PC port of EA's action game
Left 4 Dead TV Spot #2 - It's the latest ad for Valve's best selling zombie co-op shooter
Grand Theft Auto IV PC Video Editor Trailer - This trailer was made using the PC exclusive video editor in Rockstar's open world action game.
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor Trailer - It's the first gameplay trailer for Relic's next WWII RTS stand alone expansion
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Trailer - We have the latest gameplay trailer for Relic's sci-fi RTS game
Call of Duty: World at War mod tools - It's the official mod software tools for Activision's latest WWII shooter