Campaigns

There are many campaigns that you can play in Left4dead and Left4dead2, not counting the downloadable ones. I will explain the main campaigns of each game in order. (Note: The names are your XBOX profile names, so it will say for example: Lolo as Zoey and the computers will be shown as Francis as himself and so on.) The final phase of a campaign is referred to as the Finale. A crescendo event is a small event that calls a horde out, could be loud noise, like upsetting a witch or setting off a car alarm.

First off, the Left4Dead campaigns.:

This Campaign is the very first of the Left4Dead campaigns, following the intro movie into the game. (Literally, right after it.) The survivors hear a chopper fly over head saying, "Report to Mercy Hospital for evacuation!" Bill has much knowledge in this campaign, knowing to take the red line station to the hospital. NO Mercy is the irony as they have to be merciless to the infected. Once you reach the hospital, even infected dressed in patient clothing attack you, special to the hospital setting only. The final step in this campaign is the roof of the hospital, where you must contact the Rescue 7 chopper, who says it'll take 15 minutes to rescue them.

This campaign is centered in a more forested area, but not as much as Blood Harvest. Francis starts his rants about things he hates such as tunnels, train yards, and vans. The 3rd phase of this campaign hosts a psychotic Church man, who doesn't open the safehouse door until he completely tansforms into either a Hunter(25%), Smoker(25%), or Boomer(50%). The Finale of this campaign takes place in a boat house, calling for John and Amanda Slater who own a small fishing boat company, who offer to take the Survivors to the next Campaign. Once you hear the foghorn of the big boat, it's time to hustle it to the dock to jump on the boat, almost literally.

Dead Air is the third campaign of Left4Dead. It takes place at the airport, that the survivors soon find is destroyed, planes falling right out of the air. In this one, they travel through the electric company as well. Once they reach the finale, one plane nearly plows into the survivors, it is a very cool vision element in the game.

This is the final campaign (unless you download "The Passing" and "The Sacrifice." from XBOXlive) Which takes place in a wooded area, eventually leading to a farm, when you are near the farmhouse, the corn maze will startle crows and start a crescendo event, bringing out a horde before you reach the farmhouse, you have to be very careful to avoid this crescendo event. The farmhouse is the last step, in which after 10 minutes an armored army truck rescues the surviviors.

Left4Dead2 campaigns:

Dead center is the first of 5 campaigns in Left4Dead2. You have to travel to the mall, in order to "Fill up Jimmy Gibbs' stock car and drive out in style!" As said by Ellis. The uncommon in this campaign are the infected in hazmat suits, (Fireproof infected).

Dark Carnival is exactly as it's titled. The survivors travel through two major amusement parks, Whispering Oaks, Coach's favorite place to go when he was a kid, and KiddieLand, which Ellis is still excited about, sad for him being an adult and still love a childish amusement park. The finale takes place in the Midnight Riders' concert, where they were supposed to preform. Nick also speaks his mind about Ellis at the entrance to KiddieLand, "He's like a 5 year old, with guns. And a grasp of every swear word in the english language." The uncommon infected featured in this campaign is the clown, who attracts the horde.

Swamp Fever is the next step after Dark Carnival, where the pilot of the rescue chopper turned into an infected and attacks the survivors, so Nick shoots him, though this isn't shown, they talk about it, Ellis and Nick mostly. The uncommon infected in this campaign is the mud men, they crawl, but at a fast past, walking on all fours like a wolf. Aim low, or they will keep clawing at your feet, in the water they are well camoflauged. Instead of blood, they lose mud all over your screen as you kill them. "Mudders" is also a name they are called by Nick and Rochelle. The finale takes place at a Plantation House, in which you use the radio to signal Virgil, your escape for the next 2 campaigns (This one and Hard Rain).

As the description says, through the course of the campaign, the rain eventually gets so bad that the place floods, causing the routes you used, to be altered in some form, the water also slows you down considerably. The Witch is the main boss infected which inhabbits the Sugar Mill and onward, there can be as many as 4 witches per 10 steps you take, but if you avoid them ALL, you earn the "Do Not Disturb" achievement, a tough challenge, but a worthy award. This finale is the only one to take place back at the first place you started off, signaling Virgil with the "Burger Tank" sign.

This is the last campaign in Left4Dead2, Virgil leaves you off to a "Safe Area" to go into the city, as you travel down streets and alleys, you'll eventually find the bridge and you have to lower and get across the bridge, avoiding falling into the water and dying. There are no uncommon infected in this campaign, it's not considered one, but the ones with bulletproof armor are "uncommon". Once they get aboard the helicopter, they bridge gets bombed, showing it flying into many pieces, a pretty cool visual effect.