Left 4 Dead is a shooter developed by Certain Affinity, released 17 November 2008 on Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 5 cheat codes for it.
What Left 4 Dead is
Left 4 Dead is a shooter game developed by Certain Affinity and released in 2008. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Source.
The premise, in the publisher's words
An outbreak of a pathogen nicknamed the Green Flu sweeps across Pennsylvania, causing extreme aggression, loss of higher brain function, and rapid mutation in its victims. Two weeks after the first infection, four immune survivors find themselves stranded together in the city of Fairfield: Bill, a Vietnam veteran; Zoey, a college student; Louis, a district account manager; and Francis, an outlaw biker. As the group fights through city streets, subways, and countryside in search of evacuation, they discover that the military's containment efforts are failing and that the infection is producing increasingly dangerous mutations in some of its hosts. Each rescue attempt leads to another…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 73 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Left 4 Dead holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 776 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 32 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 1 GB of RAM and 128 MB, Shader model 2.0, ATI 9600, NVidia 6600 or better. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Left 4 Dead launched on 17 November 2008, within three weeks of Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2 and LittleBigPlanet. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, LittleBigPlanet.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 5 cheat entries for Left 4 Dead — 5 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
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Left 4 Dead cheat codes
Enable cheats first
Required before any other cheat command. Local server only.
Enable the developer console in Options, then press `.
God mode
You take no damage.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first.
Give any weapon
Spawns the named weapon.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first.
Spawn a special infected
Spawns the named infected next to you.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first.
Dlc
Quick answers
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