Left for Dead 2 The Passing is a Shooting game available on the 360. It can be played in Cooperative Firstperson Competitive modes.

Left for Dead 2 The Passing is a Shooting game. Shooting games present a world in which the character must shoot their way out of dangerous situations. They provide the player with an array of weapons tailored to specific tasks. This unavoidably involves a combination of fisticuffs and gun based fighting that dictates the violent nature of these experiences. Beneath this harsh exterior though is often an intricate tactile game - and this is usually what drives the player.

Left for Dead 2 The Passing can be played in a Cooperative mode. Cooperative Multiplayer games provide an experience that is played symaltaneously by multiple players. Unlike the simple arena competitive multiplayer style games where players try to kill the most enemies, true co-operative games are designed to take a group of players through a campaign experience together. This will involve sections where players have to work together to proceed - either from the sheer difficulty as in Halo 3 on 360 or by the design of levels such as LittleBigPlanet on PS3.

Left for Dead 2 The Passing can be played in a Firstperson mode. First Person games view the world from the eyes of the in-game character. You don't see the character themselves apart from their hands, gun or possibly feet as in Mirror's Edge. Because of the imediacy of the experience and sheer volume of visual information the player is offered First Person games lend themselves to the shooting genre. The FPS view enables players to immerse themselves in the experience and react quicker to events in the game. Other games have used a first person view to deliver an unusual perspective on an old genre - Mirror's Edge for example delivers a Platforming genre through a First Person view.

Left for Dead 2 The Passing can be played in a Competitive mode. Competitive Multiplayer games provide experiences where players compete against each other and the computer. Obviously lending itself to sports and team games, these competitive engagements have also dominated the shooting and fighting genres because of the direct combat and expertise involved in each. Although these games were originally played in a split screen style, more recently they are played online via services such as PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and the Nintendo Wireless Connection.

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Story Gamer review Sun, 04 Jul 2010

Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing 360 is a substantial downloadable installment that reintroduces the characters from the first game. It's a must for dedicated Left 4 Dead fans, even if they won't necessarily be happy about what's happened to one of these old favourites.

As discussed in my previous Left 4 Dead 2 review, I love Left 4 Dead 2, a game that provides a great platform to let me play out my zombie apocalypse survival fantasies, with spontaneous stories of victory and defeat emerging from the combination of clever enemy behaviour and the interactions of me and my friends.
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