Left 4 Dead and its origin story, what if the shooter had stopped having zombies?

The video game’s screenwriter, Chet Faliszek, talks about how frowned upon at the time was zombies and their stereotypes.

What if there were no Left 4 Dead zombies? No, it’s not what the next episode of What If…? Disney+ is, however, a very real possibility that has been considered in the gestation period of Valve’s much-loved collaborative action and shooter video game, as stated. Chet Faliszekscreenwriter of the production.

In an interview with the Kiwi Talkz podcast written by news portal VG247, the Portal 2 writer reviewed some of the moments of his career, including the shooter’s development and his goal to move away from the stereotypes that used to go hand in hand. with The Walking Dead. “I went out to dinner with Gabe once. [Newell] And he said, ‘If you look at zombie movies, Night of the Living Dead is about racism, Dawn of the Dead is about consumerism,’ what is your game about?

“And I replied: Well, it’s about working together, the game itself, a reflection of the game. They put more pressure on us because I remember. [Newell] ‘well,’ he said let’s not make zombies zombies are just stale‘. There was no The Walking Dead at the time, and now there was everything, so it was really cheesy,” he explains.

Fortunately, the screenwriter came up with an idea to package up the proposal. “Why don’t we take the characters and the world and make them realize that some of them are actually in a zombie movie? Zoe and Lewis get that, ‘oh my god this looks like it came straight out of a movie‘, but they take it seriously.”

The 4 Dead hits left their stores and released a second installment in which Faliszek is also a writer. Its creators, Turtle Rock, recently released Back 4 Blood, forcing players to once again join forces against hordes of zombies. Faliszek left Valve in 2017 and released The Anacrusis, a co-shooter with aliens, on PC, Xbox, and Game Pass a few months ago.

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