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Thwack! Left 4 Dead 2 survivors play a bit of cricket

by David Hinkle on Jul 7th 2009 5:00PM

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There's a cricket bat in Left 4 Dead 2, and after pondering how such an instrument could find its way to the southern United States (we certainly don't make them here, and every American knows that we don't allow people with them to enter the country), we've come up with a few theories:

Someone smuggled the bat and full set of gear (notice how the zombie is dressed to play?) into the country, akin to how Snake Plissken was smuggled into Manhattan in Escape from New York
Zombies really like sports
The United States was chosen as a neutral place to hold a competition between two rival teams in cricket, and the zombie infestation happened during the game
A wizard did it
It's an homage to Shaun of the Dead
Valve just felt like it

We asked some folks at Valve about it, but they wouldn't divulge any info. What do you guys think?

[Via IGN]

Tags: cricket, l4d2, left-4-dead-2, Microsoft, valve, valve-software, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (85)

US to Australia:
BONK!

If you order now, I'll throw in a second beating, ABSOLUTELY FREE!

Best post ever.

and really, in order to understand cricket you must have played it at some point. It's completely too painful to explain it to anyone that only has baseball as a reference.

No self respecting Aussie.. spelled Ozzie ... would ever be caught dead in a helmet. EVER

The tennis has a break for Robinson's orange juice

Well actually the Cricket has a tendancy for Victoria's Bitters...

Twat

You've got red on you...

Maybe having a regular ol' baseball bat was too boring, so Valve mixed it up a little.

...But it's probably a Shaun of the Dead reference.

I don't care a bout a freaken bat, Where is my SAXOPHONE!? it would make better sense to have a saxophone instead of a bat right? lol

That would be awesome. Actually, I'm all for random weirdass weapons in the first place. During a zombie invasion, it's not realistic to have a bunch of guns and ammo lying around...it'd make much more sense to have to make do with the random shit you've got. Like saxophones. But I guess that would require a total gameplay change, and I happen to also like the FPS focus.

I'm pretty sure there is a baseball bat. But a cricket bat? Yeah, all we need is one of the finales being set to Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now".

@MowDownJoe: I almost forgot about that. Holy shit, that'd be awesome.

I think what you actually mean for #2 is:

"People who really like sports are zombies"

this game is now an instant buy for me. cricket is my favorite sport

Protip: Team Fortress creators and current Valve employees Robin Walker and John Cook are Australian ex-pats, and are probably excited for the start of the Ashes.

tip: become a pro before calling your advice a Protip

Protip: Don't be a dick, Pete.

gota be the ashes the news only seems to be going on about 2 things mj and the ashes dont like nether its driving me crazy btw whats a crumpet

He obviously got it from one of those restaurants the have all the crap on the walls to make it way more fun to eat there(yawn.).

don't yanks play cricket?

No, the Yankees are a baseball team.

Francis hates cricket

It's just a mock image because of the Ashes.
And not all English people like (and understand) cricket. I am English and, to be honest, I can't stand the sport. Any sport that has an extended break in play for tea is not worth my time

And I thought it was just me!!! (Although I'm a Welshman).

As a famous person once said: "BORRRRING!"

Must be a bunch of brits here w/ all of this talk about cricket. Seeing that most of the comments are going way over my head.

I don't know if it's a Shaun of the Dead reference, but I do know that dogs can look up!

To the Winchester!!

I hope their arn't too many weapons in L4D2. One of the things I liked about the first one was how limited you were. Not that many weapons, ammo(you ran out pretty quick on expert if you were not watching your ammo) but I would like a meele(?) weapon... maybe!

lol @ A wizard did it (wonders if anyone else got the reference)

WE DONT USE THE ZED WORD!

Boink!

Yea, that justifies spending another $60.

I don't know but the more pictures like these I see the more I wish this game was a co-op GTAIV like world with zombies about. 3rd person baby!!!!!! With all the camera angles allowed in GTAIV.

Dude looks like Mike Rowe.

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