DO NOT BUY Back 4 Blood - Terrible Game!

Hello, welcome back to a new video game

review. So today I've been playing Back 4

Blood, which is a sequel to one of the

most famous zombie 4-player co-op online

games, Left 4 Dead. I remember playing the

original Left 4 Dead series when I was a

teenager and I had an Xbox, and I used to

really love Left 4 Dead. I even really

loved Left 4 Dead 2. I remember when they

introduced melee weapons and everyone was

really excited about being able to use

machetes and fire axes and baseball bats.

And unfortunately, this 3rd installment

in the Left 4 Dead series, Back 4 Blood,

is just not really quite up to my

standards. I was really looking forward to

playing this game, and it's been such a

long time since I've played one of these

Left 4 Dead style games. I thought it

would still be as fun as it used to be

when I was a teenager, and I don't know

what's changed. Maybe I've changed, maybe

my standards of gaming has increased. Or

maybe the game just isn't really as good

as it used to be, but this Back 4 Blood

game is just not really very fun.

Unfortunately, I decided to uninstall the

game after just playing for an hour and a

half because it just really wasn't very

fun and it just felt very tedious and

repetitive. I felt bored playing the game

and I felt kind of sad as well because I,

like I said earlier, I love the original

games. I love the characters in the first

game. They were so iconic and charismatic.

I really like the characters in the

original Left 4 Dead. You had Louis, you

had Bill, you had that biker guy, and then

you had that girl with the red hoodie.

And they each had their own individual

interesting personalities, and they would

whine and complain about stuff. And you'd

also get little snippets of their

backstory and their history through the

dialogue as you progress in the game. But

the characters in Back 4 Blood, I don't

know why, but they just, they seem kind of

flat and boring, and they just give off

these cheesy one-liners which aren't very

funny and I just don't really care about

the characters. Another thing I really

loved about the original Left 4 Dead was

the, the levels. The campaign levels were

just really interesting and the set pieces

were so cool. You had stuff like the

airport level and the level when you're on

a bridge and there's a tank, and these

levels were just very memorable and very

interesting. Unfortunately, the levels so

far that I've experienced in Back 4 Blood,

I can't really say the same. They're very

dull, very uninspired. They They just seem

like they've ran out of ideas, and it

feels like a copy and paste of the

original games, but not as good. So

there's a few differences in Back 4 Blood

compared to Left 4 Dead. The main

difference I've noticed is there's way

more weapons. There's a much bigger

variety of weapons, and you might be

thinking, isn't that a good thing? And I

don't really think it is. Left 4 Dead 1

had a few weapons. You know, you had the

assault rifle, the shotgun, the pistol and

the Uzi. And even though there were less

weapons, you know the saying, sometimes

less is more. Each weapon felt unique and

interesting. I remember getting excited

when you picked up the assault rifle

because it was just so powerful and fun to

use. But in Back 4 Blood, there's just so

many different types of weapons. There's

like 10 different types of automatic

weapons, and you just, you just don't

really feel very excited to pick up a new

weapon. And there's also this new currency

system and the shop where you can buy

upgrades for the weapons. You can buy

perks and skills and side weapons and

gadgets and grenades and stuff like that.

And also the gameplay feels a lot more

arcadey now compared to how it used to.

The weapons reload really quickly,

there's hardly any recoil, it just doesn't

really feel very realistic like the

original games did. I remember in the

first Left 4 Dead, people would use the

handgun to conserve ammo because the

handgun had unlimited ammo, and in the

beginning stages of a level people would

go around picking off the zombies one by

one using the pistol and then save their

primary weapon for the main events and the

bits when there's like a horde of zombies

coming at you or some kind of boss. And

there was like a tactical aspect of the

game. Now this Back 4 Blood game just

feels way too arcadey. It's a bit like

that Serious Sam game where the game just

bombards you with loads of different

weapons, you never run out of ammo, It

just feels very arcadey, just run-and-gun.

Maybe it's just because I've been playing

Rainbow Six a lot recently since I stopped

playing Left 4 Dead, and maybe I'm just

used to the realism in Rainbow Six and the

way the guns feel like proper weapons in

Rainbow Six. And then coming from that

game to Back 4 Blood just makes it feel

really arcadey, and I just did not really

enjoy the gunplay and the gameplay. The

physics and the ragdoll effects are not

bad in the game. But there's one thing I

really dislike is when you shoot down a

zombie and it's lying on the ground, you

can't really continue shooting the corpse.

The bullets just don't really impact the

body. There's no registration of the body

getting hit by any bullets after the

zombie's died, and I just find that to be

very unrealistic. I like it when games,

after you kill someone or a monster, you

can still mess around with the corpse and

it moves about and you can drag it around

and you can continue shooting it. I just

think it ruins the immersion and the

realism if after a zombie dies its body

just becomes this static, immovable,

invisible object that doesn't get affected

by ragdoll physics or anything that's

going on in the game. Also, the graphics

in the game just aren't quite up to my

standards. I've got an RTX 3060 on a Razer

Blade Pro 17-inch. Laptop, and I've got

the settings cranked up to maximum, and

they were okay looking, but for a game in

2021, I just wasn't really blown away by

the graphics. The lighting effects are

decent, and dynamic lighting is definitely

a nice touch, but the physical particle

effects and the textures just aren't quite

up to my gaming standards. Now we come to

the main meat of the game, and that is the

gameplay, and unfortunately the gameplay

just didn't really hook me in. And that is

the most important part of the game, the

gameplay. If the gameplay is not fun to

play, then I don't really want to play it

for any longer than I have to.

Unfortunately, I ended up uninstalling the

game because the gameplay just was not

fun. It was very tedious. You run around

the map and the zombies just kind of stand

around, and then they start charging at

you. At first it was pretty fun trying out

the new weapons, but after a while it just

became really boring and There's no

challenge in taking down these zombies.

They all die in 1 or 2 hits. They're

really easy to take down. It doesn't

really feel satisfying to take them down

either. And even when there's hundreds of

them charging at you, all you have to do

is just unload your weapon at them and

just spray, and they will just go down.

And even when you run out of ammo, all you

have to do is hold down the melee weapon

button and you can just spam your knife

attack, and they can't even touch you.

They can't even get near you if you just

keep spamming melee. There just doesn't

really feel much of a challenge there.

And then you also have the special elite

zombies which have unique abilities like

being able to pin you down or charge at

you, and they don't really feel

challenging either. And they're all just

exactly the same ones from the original

Left 4 Dead. So you got the big guy that

explodes and covers you in vomit, which

makes you attract all the zombies towards

yourself. And then you've got other ones

that pin you down. One's got a big arm and

he punches you and he's really strong.

It's just the same stuff that we've all

seen before in the previous games, but

just with a different skin. My other

problem with the game is the melee combat.

So there's a few melee weapons so far that

I've used. There's a machete, baseball

bat, the spiked club, and the fire axe,

and none of them really feel very

satisfying or fun to use. I think the

melee combat system is way too simple,

way too basic. And I feel like the Left 4

Dead 2 melee combat system was much

better. There were combos in the Left 4

Dead 2 melee weapon system, and in this

one with the melee weapons, all you can do

is attack. You just press left mouse

button, it does a basic attack. There's no

hold down the left mouse button to wind up

a heavy attack, which would have been

really cool. There's no block button. You

can't counter the attacks of the zombies.

There's nothing. It's really bare bones

and basic. And after playing Chivalry 2,

which is a first-person melee medieval

game which has loads of different features

and functions when it comes to melee

combat, the melee combat in Back 4 Blood

just doesn't really stand up to my

standards. So yeah, in conclusion, I was a

bit disappointed in this game. It looks

okay, you know, it's not a terribly

bad-looking game. It just doesn't really

feel special or unique or as interesting

as the original Left 4 Dead games were

when they first came out, because they

were the first games to do that. And this

one just feels like a copy-and-paste,

low-effort sequel to the Left 4 Dead

series. And yeah, maybe it's

okay if you're new to the game series,

you never played the originals, and it's a

good update, upgrade for the new

generation of kids. That might have never

played these kind of games before, but as

someone who played these games as a

teenager all the way back in the original

Xbox days, I wasn't really very impressed

by it, and I would not be able to

recommend buying this game. And

unfortunately, I have to give this game a

very poor 2 out of 10.