{"id":1980,"date":"2008-11-13T08:50:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2008-11-13T08:51:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:51:50","slug":"fight-with-the-living-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"Fight with the Living Dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.l4d.com\/game.htm\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Left 4 Dead Bill against a Boomer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/l4d07.jpg\" title=\"Left 4 Dead Bill against a Boomer\" alt=\"Left 4 Dead Bill against a Boomer\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Movie zombies unnerve me. Whether the lumbering ghouls of George Romero&#8217;s <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em> and Michael Jackson&#8217;s <em>Thriller<\/em>, or the track-stars-in-our-former-lives of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsearchlight.com\/28dayslater\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>28 Days Later<\/em><\/a>, carnivorous cadavers, foaming blood, coming from every direction are the stuff of which very bad dreams are made.<\/p>\n<p>The November 18 release of Valve Corporation&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l4d.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Left 4 Dead<\/em><\/a>, above, then, pledges sleepless nights of sweat-drenched dread. The game pits four human survivors against armies of the rotting undead, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l4d.com\/game.htm\"  target=\"_blank\">says Valve<\/a>, battling them in single player, co-op, and multiplayer game modes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Set in the immediate aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, <em>L4D<\/em> offers four expansive &#8220;movie campaigns&#8221; that challenge you and your fellow survivors to battle thousands of swarming zombies as you travel across the rooftops of an abandoned metropolis, through rural ghost towns and pitch-black forests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mere words. Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametrailers.com\/player\/42615.html?type=mov\"  target=\"_blank\">this clip from the game<\/a> and hold on to your head. In the sequence, you and your three human co-partners\u2014driven either by actual players or the machine&#8217;s AI\u2014attempt to storm a kitchen in an overrun, infected house. This draws the zombies in for a meal\u2014<em>you<\/em>\u2014right as you draw your shotgun. Lemme at &#8217;em. On PC \/ Xbox 360.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie zombies unnerve me. Whether the lumbering ghouls of George Romero&#8217;s Night of the Living Dead and Michael Jackson&#8217;s Thriller, or the track-stars-in-our-former-lives of 28 Days Later, carnivorous cadavers, foaming blood, coming from every direction are the stuff of which very bad dreams are made. The November 18 release of Valve Corporation&#8217;s Left 4 Dead, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}