{"id":9555,"date":"2009-11-04T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T11:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/play-left-4-dead-2-now\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:19:14","slug":"play-left-4-dead-2-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/play-left-4-dead-2-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Left 4 Dead 2 now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/left-4-dead-2.en.softonic.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/11\/lfd2.png\" height=\"297\" width=\"544\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After waiting all day yesterday with no joy, finally this morning the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/left-4-dead-2.en.softonic.com\/\">Left 4 Dead 2 demo<\/a><\/strong> is available to download and play! The first game offered some of the best cooperative multiplayer gaming around, and on first impressions, that certainly hasn&#8217;t changed.<\/p>\n<p>This demo lets you play one campaign, entitled &#8220;The Parish&#8221; either in one player mode (with three AI companions), or online with four players fighting to survive together. There&#8217;s plenty of high speed frights and thrills in both, but playing with bots just isn&#8217;t the same. Multiplayer games are much more dynamic, and there&#8217;s more emotional involvement &#8211; whether it&#8217;s anger at a selfish player, or pleasant surprise when people are working together!<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Left 4 Dead 2 is cementing its supremacy over the aged, lumbering Resident Evil series &#8211; these zombies are varied, fast moving and extremely vicious. There&#8217;s really nothing like the moment when a horde of zombies is rushing towards you: it&#8217;s one of the most visceral, adrenalin pumping creations in gaming history.<\/p>\n<p>To play you&#8217;ll need the <a href=\"http:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Steam client<\/strong><\/a>, and from there you can download the demo &#8211; but be warned, it&#8217;s not for the faint hearted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After waiting all day yesterday with no joy, finally this morning the Left 4 Dead 2 demo is available to download and play! The first game offered some of the best cooperative multiplayer gaming around, and on first impressions, that certainly hasn&#8217;t changed. This demo lets you play one campaign, entitled &#8220;The Parish&#8221; either in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/play-left-4-dead-2-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Play Left 4 Dead 2 now!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[],"tags":[3022],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-9555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionleft-4-dead-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335301,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions\/335301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}