It’s reached the point where every mutation you spy on the near horizon just means more fun.Įach of the eight Cleaners you can choose to play as has different starting gear, and will bestow unique buffs and abilities on the party. Seeing a Tall Boy materialise through the fog, or hearing the echoing belch of a Retch will give you pause. Which is not to say they don’t have an effect. It’s annoying when they pin you or grab you and you need to either await rescue or use a stun gun, but they’re not all that scary any more.īack 4 Blood attempts to compensate at times by simply hurling them at you in almost comical numbers, but there’s little you can’t overcome by back-peddling while spraying bullets. In fact, they’re now almost generic, which sadly robs some of their impact. To be fair, if you played a lot of Left 4 Dead or its more recent homage, World War Z, then none of these mutations will feel new. Back 4 Blood: A frantic, exhilarating multiplayer experience There’s one that vomits on you, one that pounces on you and drags you away, another that screams bloody murder if you startle it, summoning a horde. There are Hockers who cling to walls like spiders and spit gobs of sticky mucus at you. There are Tall Boys, Crushers and Brutes, each of which does something very brutal with its one oversized hand.
They become zombies at first, but then take on a variety of mutations that turn them into much moire dangerous creatures. In this particular apocalypse the hordes of mutated humans have been caused by a parasitic worm that infests and takes over the host. Yes, it’s set in a different place and the Infected have been replaced with the Ridden, but that’s it aside a few additional mechanics. It would be nice to get through this review without repeatedly referencing Left 4 Dead and its sequel, but there’s so much of the same DNA in Turtle Rock’s might-as-well-be-a-threequel, Back 4 Blood, that it’s going to be almost impossible.Īs I’ve already said in two different previews, Back 4 Blood is Left 4 Dead 3 in all but name.
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