Counter-Strike: Source Mod Leaks, Taking a Look at Early Left 4 Dead Concept – Games – .Geeks

A Counter-Strike: Source mod has popped up online that more or less gives a look at an early concept of the Left 4 Dead game. This mod is about Zombie City, where “anti-terrorists” run towards terrorists as zombies.

Modmaker Wolfcl0ck has a video posted online about the playable mod, also made by him has been made available and in which he incorporated some adjustments. The video shows the counter-terrorists turning on the playable terrorists, but not in the usual way. Counterterrorists are bots that act more or less like zombies and run towards players armed only with a knife. A bomb can be planted, but the goal seems more to survive the hordes and reach the end of the map.

Zombie City is a map created by Valve or previously acquired Turtle Rock and is part of a series of leaked map files. It is unclear who is behind the leak. The map can be considered a prototype and possible starting point for the next shooter Left 4 Dead. Zombie City is clearly not a finished product, considering, among other things, the great lack of detail and the rudimentary outlines of a city.

During a recent documentary spoke Turtle Rock founder Michael Booth on the concept. “While we were developing the bots for Counter-Strike: Source, we found that having a few of us armed to the teeth with automatic weapons against 30 knife-wielding enemy robots was a lot of fun. After the release of Counter-Strike: Source we started experimenting with new game prototypes in late 2004. That basic core of a small team of friends against hordes of enemies was something we kept coming back to and we quickly realized that cooperative versus horde game He had great potential.”

Turtle Rock previously worked on Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and came to Valve in 2005 with two ideas, including a mod for Counter-Strike called Terror-Strike. The concept has now appeared online. Turtle Rock would later be acquired by Valve, and the studio made the shooters Evolve and Back 4 Blood, among others.