This is aided by stellar death and damage animations, which see enemy parts go flying into the distance with each successful shot. The only improvement I noticed on Left 4 Dead here came from Back 4 Blood’s wonderfully satisfying shooting mechanics, which feel substantially more weighty.Įach gun has a distinct weight and satisfying firing mechanic, which makes blasting the arms or face off an incoming zombie super-entertaining. Playing the opening four parts of the first chapter in Recruit difficulty, my team and I blasted our way through the ridden horde with zero issue. This means the first four chapters can feel too much like a warm-up, with it taking time for Back 4 Blood’s more interesting mechanics to really develop. So, at first glance, there’s very little that separates them outside of aesthetics, aside from their starting weapons. Unlike Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Warhammer: Vermintide or Deep Rock Galactic, there are no skill trees to be found. Most look like they’d been carbon-copied from The Walking Dead and have equally clichéd, and amusing, dialogue.
The characters on offer include all the standard zombie clichés you’d expect. Plus, it’s way more fun playing the levels with friends. The tutorial makes the game feel very basic, with your choice of avatar limited to four out of the eight “cleaners” (characters). If you’re a Left 4 Dead veteran, I’d recommend skipping it. The only difference being a much more developed “tutorial” that tasks you to play through the first four episodes of the campaign with AI bot teammates as it introduces you to its various combat and item management mechanics. The aesthetic and gameplay is pretty much pure Left 4 Dead. It tasks you with fighting your way through a story campaign in teams of four, or solo, blasting hordes of zombies (known in-game as ridden) while desperately trying to make it from one safe room to another. The best way to summarise it is as a cooperative shooter set in a zombie apocalypse.
It will immediately familiar to Left 4 Dead fans.Having blasted through the cooperative campaign and tried – and frequently failed – to survive against human controlled zombies in its Swarm mode, I can confirm that Back 4 Blood is one of THE best co-op multiplayer games on the market and a true successor to Left 4 Dead in every way. Back 4 Blood is a co-op first-person shooter from some of the all-star team behind the iconic Left 4 Dead series.
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