{"id":750,"date":"2022-08-31T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=750"},"modified":"2022-08-31T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T00:20:05","slug":"joystiq-hands-on-left-4-dead-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Joystiq hands-on: Left 4 Dead, round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p><\/p>\n<p>Randy posted such a mentioned, the game relies heavily on squad-based gameplay &#8212; you have to constantly watch your teammates on screen to see if they need help or reviving. The game has a vision tweak that allows you to see your teammates through walls as silhouettes of their profile. They&#8217;re green when all is clear and turn bright white when they&#8217;re in trouble. It replaces a tradition on-screen radar and keeps your eyes centrally focused on the action. Valve&#8217;s Michael Booth admitted, &#8220;It&#8217;s a little gamey, it keeps you there. Like in the real world if we&#8217;re in a building together, I&#8217;m going to hear you around the corner and know where you are. We wanted to eliminate the radar and keep it simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll spend more time with Left 4 Dead at E3 to see what new stuff Valve has in store, but right now, it&#8217;s shaping up to be a quality horror game with an impressively integrated multiplayer component.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy posted such a mentioned, the game relies heavily on squad-based gameplay &#8212; you have to constantly watch your teammates on screen to see if they need help or reviving. The game has a vision tweak that allows you to see your teammates through walls as silhouettes of their profile. They&#8217;re green when all is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[950,67,812,951,668,618,685,952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}