Over on YouTube I found a couple of recently uploaded videos that show a full minute of gameplay in Valve's upcoming DLC for Left 4 Dead 2 called "The Passing." These gameplay videos were recorded as the game was played on the Xbox 360, and showed the player controlling survivor Ellis while blasting his way through zombies. As I searched for recently published news stories regarding the upcoming DLC, I came across GamePlanet which has apparently gotten the scoop ahead of everyone and even has 10 new screenshots to prove it. The GamePlanet article sheds new light on the much-awaited DLC and talks about another DLC following a month after it is released.
In the DLC "The Passing," L4D2's survivors meet with the original survivors found in Left 4 Dead 1 (Bill, Zoey, Louis and Francis), and they work together to finish the campaign (although sadly, the old survivors are non-playable characters or NPCs).
There will also be a new type of special infected in the upcoming DLC called "Fallen Survivors," which are said to be survivors that mistakenly thought they were immune. These are supposed to drop useful items for survivors every now and then when they get killed, such as health packs and ammo, it is said.
I'm not sure what other kinds of surprises Valve plans to include in the DLC, but I'm also excited to learn more about a second DLC that they are releasing after "The Passing" for L4D 1, which tells the story of how the original survivors got to the point where they could meet with the new survivors in L4D2.
Here are the two L4D2 "The Passing" gameplay videos I talked about earlier. Screenshots can be found on GamePlanet's web site.
Sources: [L4D Blog, GamePlanet]
