In praise of older video games: Left 4 Dead 2

This has been a weird week. What with having a visitor who, thanks to the “Magic of Covid” I’m not allowed to be in the same room as. Anyhoo, one way we have found to get around this is to play video games. The game “Left 4 Dead” was suggested as a way we could get together and play games without mixing too much, and so it has turned out. The game came out in 2009 and so it runs handily on most everything, including the Steamdeck and my rather elderly PC.

We’ve been having a great time running round shooting zombies and working our way through the levels. We’re playing in a team of 4 with two computer powered players and it works a treat. Your teammates are helpful and not at all silly. The dialogue is nicely done and the environments are large and challenging. There is lot of fun to be had in older games and you can pick this up for around 8 pounds on Steam. Well worth it for zombie slaying fun.