The four new Survivors in Left 4 Dead 2 will be able to make use of melee weapons, including a chainsaw, fire axe and the crowd-pleasing frying pan. Valve’s slow roll out of new info reveals on more hand-to-hand weapon.
Curiously, it’s a cricket bat, according to IGN. That’s Left 4 Dead noob Ellis there whacking the juices out of a Southern infected, apparently relieving him of his cricket headgear. Does that mean, like the hazmat suit-wearing infected already revealed, that zombies will be wearing helmets? And exactly how many cricket matches and frat houses will the new Survivors encounter en route from Savannah to New Orleans?
An interesting addition, one that may simply be striving to reference Shaun of the Dead‘s anti-zombie efforts to increased suspension of disbelief.
Shinraa
July 8, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Left 4 Dead (the original) had a very original lineup of weapons, but the combat was there, I’m a huge fan of L4D, IMO L4D2′s melee weapons just seem like a joke, sure there was humour in the original but none of that was combat based humour.
If i wanted jokes put in a combat system i would buy dead rising.
Report PermalinkMax Skelton
July 8, 2009 at 9:58 AM
woo australia!
Report PermalinkArash Mohebbi
July 8, 2009 at 10:04 AM
this is so perplexing on so many levels… Cricket? In Louisiana? Also, does the concept art imply that it would take a zombie apocalypse for an English cricket side to win at anything?
Report PermalinkBrendan
July 8, 2009 at 10:36 AM
The cricket bat, the shirt that says Australia and the helmet are all vector art…
You’ve been dooped!
Report Permalinkwarden
July 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Maybe the next weapon to be announced will be the new ball.
Report PermalinkOr England’s weapon of choice; rain.
Dale Williams
July 8, 2009 at 3:54 PM
You, sir, are my hero.
Report PermalinkBen
July 8, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Cheeky poms,
All I have to say is: FEE FI FO FUM! I smell another clean sweep!
Report PermalinkKlas
July 8, 2009 at 11:33 AM
It’s not real…
It’s some deluded Englishman trying to tell us we’re going to fail the Ashes, which not coincidentally starts today.
Report PermalinkDansDans
July 8, 2009 at 11:42 AM
“Cricket! No one understands Cricket! You’d have to know what a crumpet is to understand Cricket!”
Anyone who guess what movie that is from and who said it is a legend!
Report PermalinkI Am ME
July 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM
“Cricket! No one understands Cricket! You’d have to know what a crumpet is to understand Cricket!”
TMNT the first movie
Report PermalinkI Am Me
July 8, 2009 at 12:19 PM
and it was the red turtle Raphael
Report PermalinkDansDans
July 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM
You are a legend my friend! Well done :)
Report PermalinkChris Barns
July 8, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Dudes, this will be good. You dont need to now how to play cricket, just how to swing a peice of wood at an infected head. I think this will be great, bring on a cricket mini-game.
Report PermalinkZapdos
July 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Cricket bat’s nice… As stupid as I think the frying pan is, I guess I can tolerate it… It’s the god-awful incendiary ammo that has me reaching for the vomit bucket.
Report PermalinkMatt Clark
July 8, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Sounding like Lefteam 4tress Dead 2…
Report Permalinkmambodog
July 8, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Its fake:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/92974-IGN-Pulls-Cricket-Zombie-Prank
Bloody IGN UK wankers!
Report PermalinkKhuntza
July 8, 2009 at 9:06 PM
That picture is fake as hell..
The Ashes start today.. its clearly the reason for the picture.. but where did it come from? surely not valve..
Kotaku, are you taking the piss?
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