{"id":30728,"date":"2025-09-05T13:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/new-gameplay-today-live-back-4-blood\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:28:42","slug":"new-gameplay-today-live-back-4-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/new-gameplay-today-live-back-4-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gameplay Today Live &#8211; Back 4 Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/new-gameplay-today-live-back-4-blood.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/new-gameplay-today-live\/2020\/12\/17\/new-gameplay-today-live-back-4-blood\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to watch embedded media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been nine years since Left 4 Dead 2. That&#8217;s right, I feel old too. In that time, there have been plenty of games that have tried to duplicate the thrills of the Valve classic with variable rates of success. Back 4 Blood is also entering the undead arena, but there&#8217;s a difference this time. The game is being developed by Turtle Rock Studios, the team that brought us the original Left 4 Dead and ushered in an era of zombie-slaying co-op madness.<\/p>\n<p>But the developers aren&#8217;t content with just rehashing what worked before. Back 4 Blood features an all-new deck-building system that sees players using cards to boost their abilities during the match. But the zombies aren&#8217;t the only enemies gamers have to worry about. Back 4 Blood features a game director similar to\u00a0Left 4 Dead that also draws cards and ramps the difficulty according to how well you&#8217;re doing. But how does that all combine in-game and does it stray too far from the successful formula of what came before it? You&#8217;ll just have to watch to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Join Kim Wallace, Liana Ruppert, Alex Van Aken, and me as we team up to take the zombie hoard down and show off everything you can do in Turtle Rock&#8217;s closed alpha event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going live at 1 p.m. CT, so be sure to join us in the chat, and we&#8217;ll try to answer any of your burning questions!\u00a0If you can&#8217;t get enough of our live shows, remember to subscribe on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/gameinformer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/gameinformer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitch<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gameinformer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialgameinformer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to get notified when we go live each week!<\/p>\n<p>If Back 4 Blood is stretching that undead itch, be sure to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/video-podcast\/the-game-informer-show\/2020\/12\/17\/gi-show-most-underrated-games-of-2020-and-back-4\"><em>The GI Show<\/em><\/a> this week where we discuss our time playing the game and talk with two of the developers from Turtle Rock Studios!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/new-gameplay-today-live\/2020\/12\/17\/new-gameplay-today-live-back-4-blood\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to watch embedded media It&#8217;s been nine years since Left 4 Dead 2. 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