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Contents

  • Essentials
    • Display
      • The Screen
    • Game Modes
      • Introduction
      • Campaign
      • Realism
      • Versus
      • Survival
      • Scavenge
      • Single-Player
    • The A.I. Director
      • How It Works
    • Game Difficulty
      • About
    • Movement and Combat
      • On Maneuvers
      • Taking a Stance
      • Ranged Combat
      • Melee Combat
      • Health and Life
      • The Environment
    • Survival Tips and Tricks
      • Survivor General Tips
      • Infected General Tips
    • Survivors
      • The Cast
    • The Infected
      • Common Infected
      • Uncommon Infected
      • The Boomer
      • The Charger
      • The Hunter
      • The Jockey
      • The Smoker
      • The Spitter
      • The Tank
      • The Witch
    • Weapons and Equipment
      • Primary Weapons
      • Secondary Weapons
      • Mounted Weapons
      • Projectile Weapons (Belt Items)
      • Weapon Enhancements (Backpack Items)
      • Explosive Objects (Carry Only)
      • First Aid (Backpack Items)
      • Health Enhancements (Belt Items)
    • Achievements Appendix
      • Achievements
  • Walkthrough
    • Campaign Introduction
      • Looking 4 Guidance?
    • Dead Center
      • Dead Center Overview
      • Vannah Hotel Floor 8
      • Vannah Hotel Floor 7
      • Vannah Hotel Lobby
      • CEDA Quarantine & Overpass
      • Walkway To Whitaker’s
      • Maul Near Liberty Mall
      • Mall: Kappel’s and Middle Mezzanine
      • Mezzanine Mayhem
      • Security and Safe Rooms
      • Filling Up the Blue 22
    • Dark Carnival
      • Dark Carnival Overview
      • Highway & Off-Ramp
      • Whispering Oaks Ravine
      • Fairground Entrance
      • Chaos in Kiddieland
      • Murder at the Merry-Go-Round
      • Tunnel of Love
      • The Screaming Oak
      • The Barns
      • Barn Storming
      • The Concert
    • Swamp Fever
      • Swamp Fever Overview
      • Plank Country
      • Alligator Sanctuary
      • Rudimentary Pathways
      • Waterlogged Wade to Crash Site
      • Tracks Past the Shacks
      • Shanty Town Center
      • Shanty Town Bridge and Outskirts
      • Plantation Village
      • Plantation Mansion
    • Hard Rain
      • Hard Rain Overview
      • Burger Tank
      • Streets of Rage
      • Entrance and Refinery 1
      • Refinery 2, Plant Ruins, and Cane Field
      • Backtrack through Field, Plant, and Refinery
      • Retreat to the Safe Room
      • To the Safe Room on Second Street
      • Town Escape
    • The Parish
      • The Parish Overview
      • Bienville District
      • Bienville Park
      • Bedlam at the Bus Depot
      • Urban Flight
      • Sam’s Hot Impound Lot
      • The Cemetery of Saint Roche
      • One-Way Street and Jazz Club
      • Slaughter in the Quarter
      • Mayhem on the Mean Streets
      • A Bridge Too Far
      • Attack at the Military Evac
    • Scavenge Mode
      • Scavenge Mode: Basics
      • Dead Center: Atrium
      • Dark Carnival: Motel
      • Swamp Fever: Plank Country
      • Hard Rain: Milltown
      • Hard Rain: Sugar Mill
      • The Parish: Park
    • Survival Mode
      • Survival mode: Basics
      • Dead Center: Atrium
      • Dark Carnival: Motel
      • Dark Carnival: Stadium Gate
      • Dark Carnival: Concert
      • Swamp Fever: Plank Country
      • Swamp Fever: Plantation
      • Hard Rain: Burger Tank
      • Hard Rain: Sugar Mill
      • The Parish: Bus Depot
      • The Parish: Bridge
  • DLC
    • The Passing
      • New Features
      • Campaign: The Riverfront
      • Campaign: Streets & Alleyway
      • Campaign: The Park
      • Campaign: Pool Hall
      • Campaign: Pipe works
      • Campaign: River Tour
      • Campaign: The Sewers
      • Campaign: The Port
      • Scavenge Maps
      • Survival Maps
  • Video
    • The Basics: Top Ten Tips
    • Know Your Enemy (Part 1)
    • Know Your Enemy (Part 2)
    • Leave Them Dead: Weapons Detail
    • Tips Scavenge and Survival Modes
    • Campaign Tactics: Dead Center
    • Campaign Tactics: Dark Carnival
    • Campaign Tactics: Swamp Fever
    • Campaign Tactics: Hard Rain
    • Campaign Tactics: The Parish

Left 4 Dead 2 Guide › Essentials › Game Modes

Introduction

At the Main menu, you are presented with a number of options, your choice of six different types of games.

All of these games involve taking a team of four human Survivors (Coach, Ellis, Nick, and Rochelle) on a trek through zombie-Infected environments in search of rescue. There are five main campaigns, each with four or five stages in them.

The general objective is to kill anything unpleasant to the eye, or that’s harming your team, and battle to a Safe Room, which appears at the beginning and end of every stage.

Seek safety in the Safe Room. Just remember to close that door!

The Safe Room offers a brief period of respite, additional First Aid, weaponry, and other items. The stages’ events, the locations of enemies, and the placement of items, are all governed dynamically by the A.I. Director.

A Finale is under way. Bits fly off the undead, while Nick’s sarcasm goes unchecked.

Toward the end of a stage, you face increasingly overwhelming odds during an endgame scenario called the Finale. At the end of the last stage, this Finale allows you to escape the campaign and begin the next. The following summarizes these game modes

Note

The different forms of Infected you’ll encounter are revealed in Chapter 2: Survivors and the Infected. The various weapons, items, and other equipment you can use are listed in Chapter 3: Leave Them Dead—Weapons and Equipment.

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