Shouldn't the Zombies Eat You Rather Than Stomp You?

[The Brown Hornet]

So are they actually Zombies in L4D or just infected with (rage) virus? I like the idea of zombies taking bites out of you when they get too close and if you die, well that defibrilator not going to help if they eat your brains! L4D has decent gore but more gore when it comes to character wounds and blood letting...

[Marked One]

I've always wondered this myself, and even Zoey said she had tooth marks on her at one point.

[The Brown Hornet]

Right I want to see the characters in more pain, to where those death scenes are more gruesome rather than just a red X and sad music

[76561198070898607]

The commons trying to bite you would look spazzy as hell, so they just made them punch and kick, which still looks a little spazzy but not so much.

The hunter does actually bite the survivors, because the two animations can be matched together somewhat.

Still, the zombies in this are infected living zombies rather than the undead type.

[Pocahawtness]

*grins*

[fayji70]

Actually, they're not zombies......they're "infected".

[Pocahawtness]

Originally posted by fayji70:

Actually, they're not zombies......they're "infected".

Good point! The infection is more of a "rage" thing, as in the film 28 Days Later.In that film the infection was spread by almost any fluid contact.

[The Brown Hornet]

L4D does seem like 28 Days Later + Dawn of the Dead, time for the creators to add a lil back story to the game though, would be nice...

[76561198070898607]

Originally posted by fayji70:

Actually, they're not zombies......they're "infected".

Depending on your definition of Zombie, same thing. Indeed the thing that is normally referred to as a Zombie (a reanimated, flesh eating corpse) should really be called a Ghoul or Ghūl by English speakers.

[strokin' Strange]

If you read the comics, it says that the "zombies" are actullay people infected by the Green flu or something.

[Nicolas Cage]

Well, I guess the zombies or "infected" can sense when a survivor is immune or a carrier. If so then the infected will realize how the bites won't work on immune survivors so they might as well kill them rather than biting them. Also there's a grafitti on the Dead Air campaign that says; "They don't eat, they don´t sleep. What keeps them going?" This might state that infected biting survivors may be just to infect them rather than feeding on them. Also it is possible that the infection spreads through Boomer bile, Spitter acid and Smoker's smoke.

[Logan]

The infected don't like to chew. They like patties. xD

[hesh1234]

because theyre not zombies they are people who are sick

[Zanlo]

They aren't undead zombies they are infected zombies, therefore the're goal to is to kill all the unifected. That would explain why the witch isn't startled by other infected.

[S0CIALHUNTER]

Well alot of the characters in the game claim the have toothmarks all over their body and in the lore such ass the comic we see zombies eaten people so my guess is that they did it in the way that zombies punch you because l4d2 is very fast paced and making zombies stop and bite you would look silly and would be very slow...

[Vladislak]

It's worth noting that the virus is airborne too, which is why the survivors being carriers is such a big deal. They can cause their rescuers to become infected without ever biting them.

So it's not like the infected even need to bite those they go after. Beating the snot out of them is likely no less effective than biting them and then beating the snot out of them.