More info on Left 4 Dead's new Survival mode

Posted Feb 10th 2009 1:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Expansions, FPS, Multiplayer, Left 4 Dead Series

Last week, Valve announced that they would be adding an all new "Survival" mode into their hit zombie co-op shooter Left 4 Dead as part of a free content update for the game later this spring. Now GameTrailers.com has posted up more info on the new mode via a video repeat of the latest Spike TV episode GameTrailersTV.

According to the clip (which is near the end of the episode) Survival mode is a bit similar to the Nazi Zombie mode in Call of Duty: World at War in that players will have to survive waves upon waves of zombies for as long as possible. As with the game's other modes, there is support for up to four players in Survival mode. 12 maps will support the new mode, although the clip does not make clear if the maps are all new, made up or existing Left 4 Dead maps or a mixture of both.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Please be new maps, please be new maps.Posted at 1:15PM on Feb 10th 2009 by Mike

I can't imagine there will be 12 completely new maps. MAYBE one or two.

I'm more looking forward to Death Toll and Dead Air being converted into versus maps. Especially Dead Air. There are so many great areas in that mission for infected to use.

Also, you can't argue with free!Posted at 2:08PM on Feb 10th 2009 by Strategy_Panda (Pot & Spoon 4 Life)

They COULD be all-new maps, if they were all relatively small, simplistic, finale-esque areas.. Maybe versions of the 4 finales, and 8 all-new maps?Posted at 11:51PM on Feb 10th 2009 by JonEthan

Actually, you can argue with free, but since this is Valve, we know it will be good.Posted at 6:56PM on Feb 10th 2009 by Crunch Jingles