Back 4 Blood

 PlayStation 4
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4.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 40 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 8 out of 40
  3. Negative: 22 out of 40
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  1. Mrblank1
    Oct 19, 2021
    0
    Being as this is a spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead, the fact that they left out split screen, which is basically the only way I played Left 4 Dead, has ruined this before I even played it. Then they took progression away for single player. If you didn't want people to play solo or with friends at home why did you not make it online only.
  2. MikuruSaori
    Oct 30, 2021
    0
    This game has AWFUL input lag on PS4. Unplayable. If you only have access to PS4, definitely skip this game. There's a reason there aren't any critic reviews for this version of the game.. I got a refund.
  3. Modulate
    Oct 25, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This plays so bad. It’s slow, laggy, the controls are unresponsive and clunky. Trying to aim accurately is almost impossible. The graphics glitch out all the time leaving main characters spinning round in circles on the spot. It might be better on other platforms but it’s pretty awful on the PS4 to the point I’m minded to ask for a refund. They need to recall or fix this significantly.… Expand
  4. Codemac93
    Jan 8, 2022
    7
    Overall it does not have the same impact that Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 had, but it is the closest to Left 4 Dead 3. While repetition sets in fast with level structure and mission objectives Back 4 Blood offers a wide range of customization with character, weapons,gear and teammates. Fast and relentless at time the action and violence does not let up. Very good online but offline can get staleOverall it does not have the same impact that Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 had, but it is the closest to Left 4 Dead 3. While repetition sets in fast with level structure and mission objectives Back 4 Blood offers a wide range of customization with character, weapons,gear and teammates. Fast and relentless at time the action and violence does not let up. Very good online but offline can get stale quickly. The card perk system works well.… Expand
  5. M-Reviews
    Oct 13, 2021
    7
    As a spiritual successor for Left 4 Dead, Back 4 Blood is great to pick up with a few friends by your side, no matter on what platform they play - at least for a night or two. Although it´s gameplay is really fun besides some annoying bugs and horrid soloplay, the game fails to offer enough endgame-content to motivate much further than for it´s six to ten hour long campaign.
  6. Gurpgork
    Nov 7, 2021
    0
    Its left 4 dead, just not nearly as good. Get spit on? Horde. Bump into a car? Horde. Scare a bird? Horde. Open a door? Horde. Ai is brain dead. Its just boring and irritating. Pale imitation of L4D
  7. Menacing-Fish
    Oct 14, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is over priced has no single player progression has server issues I'm sure this is going to be a good game in 2years time but I payed for a good game on release not this half arse effort £60 for this are you joking it's worth £25-£30 not good value for money buy something else or save your money… Expand
  8. thatdaveguy
    Oct 12, 2021
    0
    "back4blood is a very good game" -someone who never played left4dead. Honestly idk how you could look at this game and l4d and say this is an improvement over the latter, it apes the classic gameplay sure but with none of the charm or style. The absence of campaign vs is strange since that was such a big reason the original games lasted so long, the swarm vs mode in back4blood is awful by"back4blood is a very good game" -someone who never played left4dead. Honestly idk how you could look at this game and l4d and say this is an improvement over the latter, it apes the classic gameplay sure but with none of the charm or style. The absence of campaign vs is strange since that was such a big reason the original games lasted so long, the swarm vs mode in back4blood is awful by comparison its just a camp fest if you're the humans with no strategy to it.… Expand
  9. StepHD
    Dec 16, 2021
    10
    Questo non è Left 4 Dead 3, ma bensì una grossa evoluzione del genere tipo Left 4 Dead con il doppio di rigiocabilità e contenuti, il pass annuale è anche un must per me!

    Doppiaggio convincente per ogni personaggio (cosa non esistente su L4D, in Italiano ovviamente), varietà di personalizzazione sia di armi e accessori ma anche di skin personaggi ecc.. Tante carte per sbizzarrirsi    Questo non è Left 4 Dead 3, ma bensì una grossa evoluzione del genere tipo Left 4 Dead con il doppio di rigiocabilità e contenuti, il pass annuale è anche un must per me!

    Doppiaggio convincente per ogni personaggio (cosa non esistente su L4D, in Italiano ovviamente), varietà di personalizzazione sia di armi e accessori ma anche di skin personaggi ecc..

    Tante carte per sbizzarrirsi con i mazzi (Selezione che inoltre aumenterà con i vari drop di contenuti)

    Il mio coop shooter preferito di sempre insieme a L4D2 (soprattutto tempi d'oro) e sicuramente uno dei migliori giochi dell'anno, must have per i fan del genere.    … Expand
  10. MinePlay512
    Oct 8, 2021
    9
    So all in all, it may not be Left 4 Dead and while there are things missing, in the end however, Back 4 Blood is a very good game that is worth the time to play and recommend.
  11. Joeboy
    Oct 11, 2021
    9
    Tremendo juegazo muy adictivo y el mejor shooter de zombis hasta la fecha. Lo unico que hecho en falta es jugar este tipo de juegos en pantalla partida con un amigo. El modo pvp lo cierto es que no me agrada pero la campaña lo compensa espero que con el tiempo mejoren el pvp o añadan algun otro modo no le doy un 10 debido a esto. En PS4 luce genial y va muy estable.
  12. Buffet
    Oct 24, 2021
    7
    Enjoyable with friends, although game can be buggy and performance lacking on ps4.

    Lower framerates, occasional stuttering, and small delays in loading/selecting cards can make the experience a little frustrating on console. Moreover the aiming system is cumbersome--it just doesn't really feel smooth. The auto-aim can drag your crosshair into allies when it tracks rushing horde, leading    Enjoyable with friends, although game can be buggy and performance lacking on ps4.

    Lower framerates, occasional stuttering, and small delays in loading/selecting cards can make the experience a little frustrating on console. Moreover the aiming system is cumbersome--it just doesn't really feel smooth. The auto-aim can drag your crosshair into allies when it tracks rushing horde, leading you to harming your teammates. Sure there are options to turn the auto-aim off or modify it but this will of course make it a lot harder to hit enemies. You are limited in mapping buttons; I can't for example switch circle and R3 for melee/crouch. All this is to say that it feels much harder to keep up with my friends on pc, especially at higher difficulties.

    Other annoying things are the matchmaking doesn't always refill your lobbies when people leave and the game feels very lonely when you aren't playing with others. While the bots are somewhat competent, they are very glitchy and the AI is not the smartest. There is a large spike in difficulty in going from recruit to veteran. Sometimes it seems like enemies can hit you through the walls or behind cover. The attachment system is very frustrating; there have been a number of times I "ruined" the weapon I had been using because I accidentally attached a horrendous 4x scope to it which you cannot remove (unless you find another sight to replace it).

    But I still enjoy it with friends. Once you get used to the diversity of special infected units, you start to learn different ways to counter them. Similarly, as you unlock more cards, you find more ways to approach the game that you can adapt your play style. The different cards played against you for each map ensures that replaying parts will be a little different each time. In short, the more I play the more depth the game seems to have. I just hope some of the quality of life issues and bugs get patched out and I wish the difficulty jump wasn't so sharp. And if you have the choice, I would probably recommend getting it for pc instead of ps4.    … Expand
  13. Moeminajj
    Apr 8, 2022
    1
    Game garbage wouldn't recommen, just play the original Left 4 dead. It's totally worth it
  14. DennisTorres
    Jun 5, 2022
    0
    This game is Mediocre, very bad in all aspects , poorly optimized, bad graphics, crap servers without a doubt the worst purchase I've ever made in a video game, and this game is horrible
  15. Prrgangsta
    Oct 20, 2021
    6
    Finally we got our hands on a new co-op zombie shooter. Ever since Valve has decided to keep on with their plans to never make a 3rd game in the series, the team that made L4D has decided to make this new IP.

    Now I will say this is a game you NEED friends to play because the bots are absolutely braindead. Now they will kill zombies but expect them to get stuck on level geometry and    Finally we got our hands on a new co-op zombie shooter. Ever since Valve has decided to keep on with their plans to never make a 3rd game in the series, the team that made L4D has decided to make this new IP.

    Now I will say this is a game you NEED friends to play because the bots are absolutely braindead. Now they will kill zombies but expect them to get stuck on level geometry and don't expect them to do any heavy lifting. Playing solo for a bit makes you realize this immediately. It almost feels like the game punishes you for playing by yourself.

    Now I did join a quick match but playing with random people is only slightly better as they most likely won't have mics and it makes it hard to communicate. I also tried hosting my own campaign but in doing so you will end up possibly sitting there for a few minutes until you decide to just jump in without the 3 other random players, in which case you may as well play solo.

    It isn't a bad game but I really need to play this game with my friends, hopefully soon, to get a better experience.    … Expand
  16. ZXSth
    Feb 27, 2023
    5
    A shockingly disappointing experience. Anyone hoping this will match the raucous highs of Left 4 Dead 2 will be sorely, sorely disappointed. Even when playing this with friends, I found this to be a generic, uninteresting experience.

    Back 4 Blood attempts to ride the coattails of its predecessor, all while offering just about nothing as interesting as anything in either of the Left 4    A shockingly disappointing experience. Anyone hoping this will match the raucous highs of Left 4 Dead 2 will be sorely, sorely disappointed. Even when playing this with friends, I found this to be a generic, uninteresting experience.

    Back 4 Blood attempts to ride the coattails of its predecessor, all while offering just about nothing as interesting as anything in either of the Left 4 Dead games it was inspired by. Give this a pass unless you are unable to live in a world without something resembling Left 4 Dead 3. Even then, temper your expectations.    … Expand
  17. deplorable
    Oct 23, 2021
    3
    let's start off at the beginning as the game offers you a "tutorial", well i say tutorial, i mean a "prologue". I think that's the word these developers were looking for with this game. Honestly, i think valve has had them chained in a basement since the last left 4 dead and they've never played a game since. And it shows. Oh boy does it show.

    Now Dark Souls, when you first play it, is    let's start off at the beginning as the game offers you a "tutorial", well i say tutorial, i mean a "prologue". I think that's the word these developers were looking for with this game. Honestly, i think valve has had them chained in a basement since the last left 4 dead and they've never played a game since. And it shows. Oh boy does it show.

    Now Dark Souls, when you first play it, is a difficult game. It's almost unnerving how quickly you may die but it tells you what button is what and gives you the bare bones of how to play. As you'd expect from a game tutorial.

    This game doesn't tell you the controls, the buttons, what everything is for or anything useful. Just puts you straight into the, say it with me, "prologue" (act 1). If you leave a game you're put into "a hub" of sorts and it gives you a couple of terrible videos about supply lines and cards. As long as you go into the menus and look for them, it'll do that.

    I know you don't start from the hub, as part of the tutorial, you're not shown around the camp. Giving the basic thing we all expect, and, then put into the action. Which just baffles me to be honest. As for the videos above, they explain a system without explaining the system. Play the game and it eventually becomes clear (eventually). It's just terrible.

    It all feels rushed. Really rushed. From the security doors (you can't disable) and just wait until zombies appear as you stand around, and one eventually breaks the door without the alarm going off (i kid you not). It's badly designed, badly choreographed and just feels off.

    I'm not going to talk about the useless bots, the useless bunched up bots which supposedly "help" you if you wanna play the campaign solo. Oh gawd. Don't do that. It just makes the game much much worse. It's fun seeing them yell out things like "molotov grenade", and you see 3 of them in the chest you just opened. So thanks for the headsup, i was suddenly blind for a second. But they won't pick up or use any of them. It's just frustrating.

    The AI of the zombies isn't much better, in the first few chapters you'll find the tallboy, exploder and stinger almost together ALL the time. All three will suddenly appear. It'll break any suspense they were going for... and makes you wish you were playing left 4 dead.

    I like to pretend this game doesn't exist, it's not something i'd ever force my friends to play. It's not fun. There's no depth unless you enjoy collecting "cards" which make little to no difference and enjoy "customisation" to show off to the same friends you're probably playing with.

    This shouldn't have been made. Like the Batman & Robin (1997) film, i'm going to pretend this doesn't even exist.    … Expand
  18. hrubi
    May 23, 2023
    6
    I enjoyed the game with my friends on recruit difficult but the last mission was very very hard for us. Fortunately we beat the last boss but the difficulty difference was too high. The card system was not too clean but the gameplay was smooth.
  19. fulustreco
    Jun 21, 2023
    5
    A worst experience of Left 4 Dead 2. Some of combat is funky, not having couch multi-player and some performance issues such as input lag and drop frames when hordes appears, make this game feels like a beta test.

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  1. Gameblog.fr
    Oct 22, 2021
    70
    Back 4 Blood is unquestionably a fun multiplayer zombie killfest but its card system is a bit light on the novelty side of things, and we can't help feeling that the game is still a bit of a Left 4 Dead 3.
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  2. Attack of the Fanboy
    Oct 12, 2021
    80
    It’s safe to say that we’re probably not going to be getting a Left 4 Dead 3 in our lifetimes, but Back 4 Blood is going to be as close as we’ll get in the time being. The game preserves mostly everything that made the two Left 4 Dead games so great while integrating it into the modern gaming sphere.
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