The system further excels when you begin combining builds and ideas with the builds of friends, doubling down on certain buffs for a stacking effect or having your friends choose abilities that make up for shortfalls of your team’s overall deck style. There are clear paths for specialist roles – melee, healer, support, demolitions, and so on – but just as many paths branching out into other areas of expertise.Ĭreating your own unique deck of cards is engaging and rewarding as it is. This character begins each mission with a baseball bat, and the cards I chose increased my melee damage, unlocked a melee charge attack, and even provided small heals on each successful swing. I soon began to explore other potential combinations, choosing a melee-focused character in my next run. I initially focused on starting with my AK-47, taking additional cards that increased my teams ammo capacity and chances at finding ammo. Nevertheless, there are huge areas for unique and powerful custom builds far beyond that seemingly obvious choice. The primary card choice seemed a no-brainer at first, as beginning a level with an AK-47 is seldom a bad idea. From there, the remaining cards are shuffled and drawn between rounds to add further bonuses and buffs. A single primary card is available, allowing the player to choose a single, guaranteed card at the beginning of each match. Each deck can consist of a total of 15 cards. However, the brief introduction to the system and its mechanics make for a very exciting feature that promises to add much higher levels of replay value and character customization. It’s unclear on whether more cards will be available at launch, how they are unlocked, or how effective they are in other areas of the game. This card-based system serves as a way to provide additional perks and abilities for each character. Before jumping into a match, players are able to select, build, and customize a deck. It’s everything that made Left 4 Dead such an incredible co-op experience, with some new ideas thrown into the mix. Packed with zombies, co-op fun, all new characters and locations, and the return of the iconic versus mode, is Back 4 Blood the Left 4 Dead we all know and love?Įven with the limited content available – just a few short missions across a single campaign – playing Back 4 Blood with a buddy was an absolute blast. If the Back 4 Blood name doesn’t demonstrate a clear intent on building upon the success of the Left 4 Dead franchise, the game wastes no time whatsoever in throwing players into the chaotic, zombie-infested co-op shooting action iconic to the last two Left 4 Dead titles. Set for release in June 2021, we got the opportunity to dive into a Closed Alpha event this past week, ahead of next year’s launch. While we’re not getting a sequel per se, Back 4 Blood is a spiritual successor in every way imaginable. As Valve continues to demonstrate a lack of interest in releasing a third title in any successful franchise, the hopes for a Left 4 Dead 3 have dwindled since the 2009 release of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead 2.
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