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E3 Violence Trifecta: Left 4 Dead 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, Prototype

E3 Violence Trifecta: Left 4 Dead 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, Prototype

By June 3, 2009 Video Games 0 Comment

? Left 4 Dead’s sequel might not have 7000 zombies on-screen at once, but it has added melee weapons and it also doesn’t control like shit. Dead Rising 2, you’re on notice — the chainsaws attached to poles were a great idea, but if you don’t improve the control scheme, I’m going with L4D2.


? Actual game footage of Assassin’s Creed 2 came out, and I’m pretty much drooling at all the new stealth kills (especially the double-kill and the one from the haystack). I kind of hate that Leonardo da Vinci is you buddy who lends you his goofy ass inventions — I feel like I’m a goddamn Delta Knight — but I’ll put up with it to deal out all that wonderful death.


? And Prototype is still looking good and is probably the most gruesomely violent of these three games; not bad since one’s a zombie horror show and the other’s a medieval murder simulator. I checked out some God of War II clips, thinking about adding it to this list, but frankly, there’s no comparison. Protoype looks much cooler.

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.