Left 4 Dead

Considered to be one of the best games of the year, Left 4 Dead really brought fourth a new era of horror and action that gaming has not seen in years. Brought to us by the legendary creators of the Half-Life series at Valve, the game follows four survivors of a zombie outbreak that has created an apocalyptic world. The action is fast paced, and never slows down once.
While the game lacks a central story, it quickly makes up for it with four extremely well developed characters that give us a new story every time we play the game. The game comes with four different maps, with five levels on each map. The main point of the game is to reach safety by finding an area where help will pick you up. The survivors must fight their way through miles of land to reach help, and must protect one another from hoard after hoard of zombies in order to reach survival.
The most interesting point of this game was the Zombie AI. In a nutshell, this means that every time you play the game, the zombies are never in the same place, and will attack you in a different and unique way everytime you play. The other interesting fact of this game is the enemy zombies. While regular zombies are scary enough, the developers at Valve stepped it up a notch and created unique and more advanced zombies. The first is the Boomer, which is a fat zombie that spits acid on you, which makes other zombies attracted to you and the center of an attack. There is the hunter, which crawls up buildings and jumps hundreds of feet until it pins you down and begins to tear you apart. There is the smoker, which has a hundred foot tongue that drags you to it and attacks. There is the Tank, which is a giant zombie that has massive muscles and takes thousands of bullets to kill. And most scary of all, there is the witch, which is a young girl who cries until you get near, and when it senses you, it starts hissing and growling until it finally attacks you.
Overall, this games startling visuals that make every experience spooky and makes any gamer jump have me a true Left 4 Dead fan. With a wide array of realistic gore and horror, tons of action and weapons use, and an in depth view of each character and their personality, I give this game a 10/10, and look forward to the sequel, due out November of this year.