Originally Posted by
Emperor Megas
My wife LOVES the game. It's pretty safe to say it's her favorite game of all time, and I play it with her, offline, in split screen coop. I also play it single player a TON though, and it's an absolute blast. This may not be the case for you though if you're someone who can't enjoy single player FPS games anymore because your spoiled by multiplayer. I'm old school though, I hardly play ANY games online, and certainly not FPS.
I enjoy the simplicity of single player campaigns when there's an actual story, or a goal you're working towards (I'm not so into flag capturing, or death matching, or the same team based firefights over and over again). There are obvious advantages to playing Left 4 Dead (or almost any team based shooter) multiplayer, with real people, but there are also a few AI quirks that will force you to change your game plan a little in single player mode. The main one being that AI partners can't use thrown weapons (pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails and bile bombs), or Melee weapons (an addition in part two), the latter not being such a big deal.
Any seasoned gamer will get through the campaigns in single player with no problem on the default settings, but the harder difficulty setting will definitely give you a challenge. Especially expert. Half of the achievements for L4D require you to play online, but it's really fun to try to unlock the achievements you can in single player campaigns.
The Left 4 Dead formula is just so fucking good; it's the most hours I've put into any game in years. I've played it more than all current gen games in my collection combined.