April 22, 2010

Left 4 Dead 2 “The Passing” Released Today

Left 4 Dead 2 “The Pass­ing” was released today.  Below are the details about the new addon.

“The first game add-on for Left 4 Dead 2 brings the orig­i­nal Left 4 Dead (L4D1) Sur­vivors down south for a meet­ing with the L4D2 cast, while deliv­er­ing new single-player, mul­ti­player and co-operative game­play for the PC and Xbox 360.

The Pass­ing also intro­duces a series of weekly game mode events dubbed “Muta­tions.” These week-long runs of new game­play modes range from “Real­ism Ver­sus” mode to “Chain­saw Mas­sacre,” which gives all play­ers chain­saws with an unlim­ited sup­ply of gaso­line. There are over 20 Muta­tions planned, each playable on all L4D2 Cam­paigns. Muta­tions are exclu­sively avail­able to own­ers of “The Pass­ing” DLC.

In addi­tion, “The Pass­ing” offers a new co-operative chal­lenge mode of play, sup­port for infected bot play in Ver­sus, a new “uncom­mon com­mon” zom­bie class (the fallen sur­vivor), melee weapon (golf club), and firearm (M-60).”

This addon is of course free for the own­ers of the PC ver­sion of the game.  If you don’t own the PC ver­sion it will cost you 560 microsoft points on Xbox Live.  This is a fairly large down­load.  It is over 1gb so plan a lit­tle time to down­load the addon.