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Vandaag is de dag van de officiële Left 4 Dead 2 release. Hoogste tijd voor een Left 4 Dead 2 review explosie! De meeste internationale reviews van de game staan al online en op Metacritic heeft de game momenteel een gemiddelde score van 92%. Over de gehele linie is de pers dus zeer positief over de game. Hieronder een greep uit de Left 4 Dead 2 reviews!

1UP geeft Left 4 Dead een “A” als score – dit is de hoogste rating die zij geven aan games. Zij concluderen in de review:

L4D2 delivers multiple improvements over its predecessor, and I get to keep all my fingers and toes [...] there’s more than enough to call this a complete sequel. If there was any concern going into this thing, it was that maybe it’d represent a collection of tweaks and touches that’d be better suited to expanding the first game, and there are sure to be a few who hold on to that opinion. Personally, I think this sucker earned the 2 at the end of its name.

Official Xbox Magazine beoordeelt de game met een 95 en is onder de indruk:

An undisputable improvement over its predecessor in every way, and it steals its own crown as best co-op game on the Xbox. It’s chainsaw-twirlingly good.

Game Informer beoordeelt Left 4 Dead 2 eveneens met een 95 stelt in de conclusie:

The newest chapter in the undead uprising now oozes with even more of the proven developer’s trademark personality and polish. If you are among those who think the sequel is coming too soon, prepare to eat your words like so many brains. Left 4 Dead 2 is everything a sequel should be: perfected, expanded, and an absolute riot.

De kritische heren van Eurogamer geven de game het verdienstelijke cijfer van een 9/10 en concluderen in de review:

It’s an amazing volume of new modes and features for a game that once kept things simple, but it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to see them. Whereas once we treated Left 4 Dead as a stopgap between Half-Lifes, this is no longer a weird little side project with modest expectations, and Valve is confident enough to play around with it, safe in the knowledge that you can trust your players. Left 4 Dead proved it. And whereas that game had a personality, this one is overflowing with it.

Dan is het de beurt aan IGN – ook zij zijn positief en geven de Left 4 Dead 2 een 9.0 als eindcijfer. Uit de conclusie van de IGN review:

Though plenty of other games offer co-operative gameplay against mobs of computer-controlled foes, no other game emphasizes teamwork as strongly as this, and few other games are as satisfying when you’re able to pull through successfully, particularly when competing in Versus mode against four human-controlled boss zombies. If you saw the original and were always curious to try it out, then by all means get the sequel. It is, without a doubt, the better game. Yet despite all the advancements and additions, it’s still very familiar, and something meant to appeal to those who are already sold on the concept. If you’re someone never cared for the game, Left 4 Dead 2 isn’t going to change your mind. Even so, it remains one of the most distinctive co-operative titles out there, and allows for some of the most nerve-searing team-based multiplayer gaming on the market.

Tot slot de Gametrailers review, waarin de game wordt beoordeeld met een 8.7:

Though not an astounding improvement over the original, Left 4 Dead 2 successfully rekindles that magical zombie-hunting feeling with great new content, and a cool competitive multiplayer mode to boot. It may take some convincing to draw you to its cause, but cooperative team-based shooting is rarely more fun, or hectic, than this.

Al met al ziet het er dus naar uit dat Left 4 Dead 2 met recht een sequel kan worden genoemd en dat de game op alle fronten beter is dan het eerste deel.