'Dead Center' and 'Hard Rain' are final Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns [Update: They're real!]

by Ben Gilbert on Oct 11th 2009 8:30PM

Update: A Valve representative has confirmed the veracity of the two posters as official, saying simply, "They're legit."

Original: It is with much necessary reservation that we bring you the two purported Left 4 Dead 2 campaign posters for "Dead Center" and "Hard Rain" that you see above, completing the set of five campaign missions. Found over on Taiwanese website GNN, we're highly skeptical of their veracity for the time being, but felt their quality at least bared mention -- if this isn't real thing, it's damn impressive. Being Danny Doubters though, we're still a bit thrown by consistency differences when compared to the game's other three posters. We've sent a note to Valve for comment, so until we hear back, the images will remain strictly in our "unconfirmed" pile.

In the meantime, ponder this: "Dead Center" translated by Google from Mandarin Chinese is "Death Marketplace." Fact!

[Thanks Lockwolf!]

Dead Center and Hard Rain (rumored L4D2 campaigns)

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Tags: dead-center, gnn, hard-rain, left-4-dead, left-4-dead-2, Microsoft, pc, rumor, valve, valve-software, Xbox-360

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and may i ask what these consistency differences are? the new ones look legit to me.

Everytime I see 'Hard Rain', I can't help but think about that film with Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater.

It sends chills up my spine - more so than the thought of fighting zombies.

I personally think of "Chubby Rain."

Gotcha suckas!

fighting zombies, gut deep in water, and raining.. genius!

At first I was like "high water? In New Orleans? Errrr....whoops!

One could branch off Obie's joke and say that the president doesn't care about infected people.

However the joke doesn't work for Obama because of his healthcare reform proposal.... >.>

Wow - downvoted on a Bowfinger reference. Never thought I'd see the day...

I liked the Bowfinger reference. I always think of "Chubby Rain" when I see "Heavy Rain" or similar.

I always think of the Moroccan level on No One Lives Forever!

"You must be this tall to die" is pretty epic win.

I feel pretty confident that these are real. Apparently there have been videos/screenshots of these levels out there, just with no specific campaign attached to them.

Also, I want one of those gator dolls pictured in the Dark Carnival poster! Hopefully we'll see 'em on the Valve Store someday. :P

dude i love your avatar, TUAW should adopt them as default.

Darn, I was hoping the campaigns would go on forever.

Yeah have fun boycotting this one guys.

...I'll be at the mall.... :D

I'll be at.... wait, where's the second one placed? Oh right, Earth.

My only real issue with this whole debacle has been the Crash Course campaign. It was too short, uninspired, and felt like the sort of thing someone cranked out in the space of an afternoon. Or worse, levels cut from other campaigns dredged out of the recycling bin.

Whether or not Valve ever intended to carry through on their promise of several DLC releases for the original is moot to me, I got my money's worth off the original four campaigns several times over. It's a great game, I had a great time, no complaints. But throwing the community half a bone in the form of Crash Course was pretty half-assed, in my opinion.

Rather than boycotting, I'll be renting. It's about as much righteous indignation as I can manage these days.

The Crash Course DLC wouldn't have been so bad if it was free on the 360. I think it'd doubtful I'll purchase L4D2 on 360 now I have a gaming pedigree PC which will actually be supported and far from Microsoft's stupid restrictions/money-grabbing. But my heart goes out to console gamers still. Microsoft/Valve/Chutulu gave someone a bum-deal over pay-for Crash Course.

Oh yeah Uncle Phil

I eagerly await the mod that replaces the other survivors with Will, Carlton and Hillary.
Then they can all slay the infected as they try to get home to Bel Air.

That's the reason I want to get the PC version. I haven't played a PC game since Half-Life in 1999.

YO CARLTON

cowboy, screw hillary and bring on JAZZ!

then again, the addition of jazz would turn it into a sausagefest, and hillary is pretty sexy... hmm...

I miss that show so much. The 90s were the best.

You forgot Geoffrey the butler. That guy was all kinds of cool. That guy can probably handle his kitchenware pretty well against zombies. He would bring class to the apocalypse

and he would kill to sit next to the terminator.

I think the best part about these is definitely the movie-esque posters.

Speaking of, anyone know where I can get high-res versions of these?

I hope its more then this. I mean its alright but 4 campaigns just ain't enough!

Someone needs to learn how to count...

1. The Parish
2. Swamp Fever
3. Dark Carnival
4. Hard Rain
5. Dead Center

5,...ah ah ah ah!

And L4D2 will get DLC as well. So, no worries.

Not to mention the wonders that will come out of the modding community. Everyone who can should get this for PC. The mods are worth it. That, and the level of customization options one has when setting up a server.

1. I didn't know dark carni. was a episode...I'd still like maybe two more
2. I was going with the console version. My PC is crap and could barely run the first.

Rumors aren't that good when there are screen shots.

Yeah, exactly. Did you hear about L4D3 being confirmed? I found this screen shot of it a few hours ago on the official Steam page.

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm145/DMTrooper/L4D3.jpg

That's a lot of effort to go through just for a joke, Steve. Even if it was a hackmeat MS Paint job...

You're a teenager, or twenty something... you're not supposed to put that much effort into anything you do.

-Literally took less than 1 minute to make and upload. It's not THAT hard to use MS paint ya know.

Love it Steve. Not only does it appeal to children it's also very original.

MS Paint jokes can be funny.
If you're an absolute failure at humor, though, better luck next time.

Eh, normally I'd bash you for screwing up your comment with "if" and "though", but today I don't really care. However, I DO care enough to type this up. Think of it as a consolation prize.

You know what, right now i'd pre-order L4D3 even if that was the official box art.

... it's obviously real. I mean, why else would they put in English?

How exactly is this a rumor? They're obviously real, and there's even gameplay from Hard Rain. Not to mention I believe I saw both over 24 hours ago. Let's get on the ball guys.

EXCITEMENT!!! :D

Thhhhhhhats what she said! No, really.

... it WAS what she said...

8EXCITEMENT!!! :D

There you go, fixed.

Why is it every time Saria makes a post, every guy on the site reverts to caveman screaming 'woman'?

Which brings me to, that's what she said!!

Bi to be more accurate actually.

Though right now, yeah I'm more gay than straight, if that makes any fucking sense.

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