He is way older than the target audience, he is bald and overweight, not very agile and he is black also. Also noticeable is that she is a black lead woman, which in video game land is also quite uncommon.Ĭoach defies all current gaming hero cliches at once. While there are many woman in real life like that, in video games girls and women usually insert sexuality into a game. She is well dressed, has a nice body and good looking face, but never does anything seductive. Rochelle is an attractive young woman, but never ever inserts sexuality into the game. Nobody's perfect, but everybody is likable.
They are no idealized characters, like most video game heroes are, which makes them very accessible. There is something that makes the L4D2 characters stand out as a group. A closer look at L4D2's line-up reveals how much thought actually went into Valve's unique designs.įrom left to right: Rochelle, Ellis, Coach, Nick. Valve's designers did an outstanding job in delivering a new and fun approach to zombie mutants and gave us a roster of lead characters, that defy current game hero conventions. Today, we examine the characters and creatures from Valve's Left 4 Dead 2.
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