“The Passing” New DLC Announced!
Valve announced the first game add-on for its co-operative zombie thriller, Left 4 Dead 2, is in development and targeted for release in early 2010.
Dubbed “The Passing,†the first game add-on for L4D2 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.
Targeted for release in early spring, “The Passing†takes place just after the Dead Center campaign of L4D2. Set in a small town in rural Georgia, players assume the role of the L4D2 Survivors as they meet with the L4D1 characters.
In addition to the new co-operative campaign and associated narrative, “The Passing†will include new arenas for Survival, Versus and Scavenge mode and introduce a new co-operative challenge mode of play. The Passing will also include a new “uncommon common†zombie class, melee weapon, and firearm.
“The Passing will become the most important campaign in the Left 4 Dead story, as all the Survivors are being called together in one campaign,†said Doug Lombardi, VP of marketing at Valve. “It will also be a huge offering of new gameplay content, with something new for every game mode plus a new uncommon common and weaponry.â€
Exclusively available for the Xbox 360 and PC, L4D2 sets a new benchmark for co-operative action games. The title adds melee combat to enable deeper co-operative gameplay, with items such as a chainsaws, frying pans, axes, baseball bats, and more.
With the AI Director 2.0, L4D’s dynamic gameplay is taken to the next level by giving the Director the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players’ performance. The result is a unique game session custom fitted to provide a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience each time the game is played.
Finally, with new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original, featuring more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, new Survival maps, and the new competitive game mode, Scavenge.
Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing is targeted for release in early spring for the PC and Xbox 360. Pricing will be announced closer to launch.
Excellent!
This is going to be absolutely fantastic, I can just tell. Finally I get to play as my beloved….err, I mean homie Francis again!
AWESOME!!!! I WANT MY FRANCIS BACK, AND NEW WEAPON AND ITEMS!! COOL!
OMG thats so awesome!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!! I can be the old man again!
Now…. where are them pisters?
I HATE MELEE WEAPONS!!-Francis
:O
cant wait
adrenaleenn shawt heer-Louis
cant wait to see the dlc i hope they bring the 1 left 4 dead maps so you can play vs with the new infected
That’s wonderful news!!!
I heard that the voice actor for Bill died recently. :S
I just vomited in excitement.
at least im back to l4d2 as a dlc
asdf ? Is that true ?
Also. GREAT FUCKING NEWS ON THAT DLC
I gave the guy that does his voice a Google search today and there’s no news of any death.
Bill’s voice actor had a drunk driving incident and was in jail for Crash Course. That’s why he didn’t have new lines back then.
Also, why are people getting excited to play as the old characters? You play as the L4D2 ones in this campaign, you just MEET the original survivors.
because its 2 l4d universes colliding into one giant masterpiece of a dlc, duhh.
MAN!, Im so fucking pissed… today i send my mom(im 14)to buy L4D2 for X360 while i was in school, so I her my $60 I saved up since i heard L4D2 was coming out on Nov. 17 , and the retard bough me L4D2 for pc(I dont even have a pc, i use my psp 4 intenet) saying it was cheaper and she wanted to buy this sweater that was $10 so now im stuck with L4D2 for pc when i dont even have a pc. I m sOO angry, now I cant play the passing when it comes out >:(
MY Loius!!!! PeElZ :3!
Just take it back. You should have a receipt…
I heard rumors that there gonna pass Zoey! UM THEY BETTER NOT SHE WAS ONE OF THE BEST! EVER!!!!! And i Heard this is coming out and Jan!
i cant wait! it better be LONGER than all the others i mean steam said its the most important one in the l4d series. :/ it better be! AND IT BETTER HAVE MORE THAN 5 LEVELS! Or just make em longer cus 8 survivors HELLO!!! WE NEED A LONG WAY THERE! ITS GONNA BE FUN! 
I call ZOEY!
@Woo!
Um they said the old survivors ARE PLAYABLE!!! STEAM SAID THAT! And because THE OLD ONES ARE BETTER!
Ugh theres so much stuff going on about “the passin” Like RUMORS! UGH! Like one person said that there will BE NO 8vs8 mode D: “thats real cus its on L4Dmods.com i think thats the webstie….BUT OMG I NEED ZOEY D: ive tried to make a website, join clans, join l4d2 sites, everything but nonthin fits me, then l4d2 came out and IM A MASTER AT IT, ill be WAY better playing as zoey, its just im comfused… if theres no 8vs8, then HOW IS IT PLAYABLE ON VERSUS? And SCAVANGE? Its confusing! And if ANYONE finds the poster on “THE PASSING” please send the link to my Email adress thanks, well unless the NEW owner posts it on this website…. Oh ya and Who bought this website? Just wounding…. But yeah im confused and lost about the passing, if anyone wants to help me get through it lol my xbox360 gamertag is xGREENCATx thanks
@Woo!
Um NO HE WASNT! If you go to google and look it up HE WAS ON VACATION! DUH! He WILL be here for the passing. Dude dont make stuff up ok?
hearing about this made me fire my pukz0rs all over the screen in a good way?
just bill lookin at a high power sniper bill- What the f—
I hope they give an exact date for when it will come out for the 360
When will this game come out?