It's good. You know what, scratch that, it's great. To hell with it, it's excellent.
But best game ever? Not by a long shot.
Left 4 Dead has it's problems. Some of them are simply due to the community, such as lack of mics and rage quitting.
But for me Left 4 Dead doesn't have nearly the same amount as replay value as most online games. This would be fine if there where more maps to wear out, but theres only 4 currently and only recently have we been able to play them all on vs, something that should have been there on release.
Theres also the sad fact that if you have people playing the same level over and over they're going to find the glitches and exploit them. This isn't nearly as big a problem with online games with smaller maps such as TF2 and CoD4, but L4Ds maps are huge and therefore have a lot more glitches, even with the level of polish Valve apply to there games (it has to be said that L4D was easily the glitchious valve game I'd ever played upon release).
Don't get me wrong, I love Left 4 Dead, in fact when night falls I'm off to play some more. But it isn't perfect, and it isn't the best.
But best game ever? Not by a long shot.
Left 4 Dead has it's problems. Some of them are simply due to the community, such as lack of mics and rage quitting.
But for me Left 4 Dead doesn't have nearly the same amount as replay value as most online games. This would be fine if there where more maps to wear out, but theres only 4 currently and only recently have we been able to play them all on vs, something that should have been there on release.
Theres also the sad fact that if you have people playing the same level over and over they're going to find the glitches and exploit them. This isn't nearly as big a problem with online games with smaller maps such as TF2 and CoD4, but L4Ds maps are huge and therefore have a lot more glitches, even with the level of polish Valve apply to there games (it has to be said that L4D was easily the glitchious valve game I'd ever played upon release).
Don't get me wrong, I love Left 4 Dead, in fact when night falls I'm off to play some more. But it isn't perfect, and it isn't the best.