Loading out is a key new part of the B4B experience: a new deck-stacking card system allows you to decide from the start which perks you’ll need to craft your character’s playstyle. Zombies in Back 4 Blood are known as “the Ridden,” and it’s your job to survive alongside your teammates (y’all uninfected humans are known as the “Cleaners”) long enough to take them out, one frenzied horde at a time. Turtle Rock is the same team that developed Left 4 Dead in the first place, and anyone who’s spent hours trying to survive in L4D will almost instantly feel right at home in B4B - even as the new game, whose lack of a lore connection to its spiritual predecessor doesn’t at all obscure its shared DNA - brings a couple of new tricks to the table. Interactive Entertainment are behind Back 4 Blood, which is set to arrive for PC and consoles this fall. Turtle Rock studios and publisher Warner Bros. Wanna drop some zombies for free this weekend? The Open Beta for Back 4 Blood is in full swing, bringing the spiritual successor to the Valve-published Left 4 Dead (originally launched in 2008) into the 2020s to clean up in the messy aftermath of a new, but definitely no less deadly, apocalyptic outbreak. We'll even throw in a good old-fashioned board game every now and then! Check in each Friday for news (and occasionally even views) on everything from sprawling RPGs to Metroidvania platformers to the latest in VR and free-to-play. Welcome to The Week in Gaming, the place where we pause each week to take a look at the video game news beats both big and small that you might be missing - while also taking a peek around the corner at what's ahead.
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