Left 4 Dead 3 Was Going to Be Open-World Set in Africa
According to Geoff Keighley's new documentary on Half-Life: Alyx's development, The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx, Valve was working on Left 4 Dead 3 for a while, and it was an ambitious project. While the game was designed to be another co-op shooter, it was also going to be an open-world game, which would be a big change for the linear level-based series. But it wasn't just going to be a basic open-world game, but the plan was for it to set a new bar within the genre.
The documentary mentions the game was aiming to have hundreds of zombies on the screen at the time. In a post Days Gone and World War Z world, this may not seem that impressive, but at the time, it would have been.
Lastly, Keighley reveals the game was going to be set in Morocco, which would be a unique setting for a video game. Not many video games are set in Northern Africa, let alone big AAA games.
So, what went wrong? Well, the documentary mentions that the game's development when into issues due to problems with the engine the game was being built upon, Valve Source 2 engine, an engine that Valve eventually dumped itself, bringing with it a few game cancellations in the process.
Of course, everything here should be taken with a grain of salt, but there's no reason to delay Keighley's information. Not only is he a very reliable source, but Valve presumably signed off on everything in the documentary before release.
Again, will we ever see Left 4 Dead 3? Who knows, but it's safe to assume we will never see these version of the third installment.
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ifconfigPosted:
Spencer Would have been interested too see how this would have went, I feel like maybe it's also a good thing it never came out as the levels of L4D/2 were really enjoyable and the open-world might feel like a totally different series.
It would of been a sacrifice of the developer. Who knows - it could of been 10x better.
JastyPosted:
Would have been interested too see how this would have went, I feel like maybe it's also a good thing it never came out as the levels of L4D/2 were really enjoyable and the open-world might feel like a totally different series.
0101010101010101Posted:
Really sad they scraped this. Such a great title really takes me back to the good ole days.
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