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
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 9:55 AMLeft 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.
Max Skelton
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 9:58 AMwoo australia!
Arash Mohebbi
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 10:04 AMthis 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?
Brendan
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 10:36 AMThe cricket bat, the shirt that says Australia and the helmet are all vector art…
You’ve been dooped!
warden
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 11:04 AMMaybe the next weapon to be announced will be the new ball.
Or England’s weapon of choice; rain.
Dale Williams
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 3:54 PMYou, sir, are my hero.
Ben
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 11:16 AMCheeky poms,
All I have to say is: FEE FI FO FUM! I smell another clean sweep!
Klas
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 11:33 AMIt’s not real…
It’s some deluded Englishman trying to tell us we’re going to fail the Ashes, which not coincidentally starts today.
DansDans
Wednesday, 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!
I Am ME
Wednesday, 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
I Am Me
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 12:19 PMand it was the red turtle Raphael
DansDans
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 2:44 PMYou are a legend my friend! Well done :)
Chris Barns
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 12:45 PMDudes, 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.
Zapdos
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 4:42 PMCricket 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.
Matt Clark
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 7:00 PMSounding like Lefteam 4tress Dead 2…
mambodog
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 8:04 PMIts fake:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/92974-IGN-Pulls-Cricket-Zombie-Prank
Bloody IGN UK wankers!
Khuntza
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 9:06 PMThat 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?