Left 4 Dead 2: Exclusive RPS Hands-On Preview
New game, new locations, new characters, new weapons, new monsters: John has been to Valve and dragged back the news.
Left 4 Dead who now? No one was expecting Valve’s next game to be a sequel to 2008’s awesome co-op zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead. To answer your immediate question: Yes, this is a completely new game, with new characters, in a new location, with new zombies, new weapons, new twists, and an improved Director, in five completely new campaigns set in the Southern United States. This isn’t more maps for the previous game, it’s a brand new game, and it’s due this November. We snuck into Valve HQ ahead of Monday’s announcement and played a full campaign, and at first glance much appears to have evolved.
It’s still Left 4 Dead: Valve have more sense than to change anything that made the first game so splendid. Rather the focus on L4D2 appears to have been the desire by everyone involved in the first game to make something bigger and better. Coming off the back of the project, we were told by various Valve developers, people we bursting with ideas of where to take the game next. So they went right there.
Left 4 Dead 2 takes place in the South of the USA, beginning in Savannah, eventually reaching New Orleans. There’s four new characters to play, each with back-stories to be hinted at in their conversations. Coach is a high school football coach from the Savannah area, used to leading the kids, comfortable in his life, and perhaps not enamoured by the arrival of a zombie attack. There’s Rochelle, from Cleveland originally, working for a cable news network. She’s producing a segment on this strange story occurring in Savannah, and gets caught up in the events. Ellis is a Southern boy mechanic, an enthusiastic but smart guy with a “Southern flair”. Finally there’s Nick, a gambler and a conman, unsure of his company and cynical about the events.
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The 2009 National Spelling Bee winner is – Kavya Shivashankar
“Spelling has been such a big part of my life,” says the Scripps Spelling Bee 2009 winner Kavya Shivashankar to the Associated Press.
The new champion dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon, but, at the same time, feels that nothing can truly replace spelling. Shivashankar will most likely go on to compete in the International Brain Bee.
The 13-year-old Kansas girl who smiled after spelling every word took home over $40,000 in cash and prizes, as well as the desired spelling champion’s trophy Thursday night in Washington. Shivashankar made four tries to win over the 10 remaining finalists.
According to Associated Press, her father, Mirle Shivashankar bragged that while his daughter may not put her competitive mindset on display “she still has that smile,” a trait that he calls it her “quality.”
Kavya Shivashankar is now the seventh Indian-American to win the championship in 11 years, including two back-to-back youngsters who also aspired to be brain surgeons.
The 1999 winner featured in a spelling documentary Spellbound Nupur Lala,was Shivashankar’s role model. Lala is currently working as a research assistant in a neuro science lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Shivashankar traveled from her hometown Olathe, Kan., three times prior to the 2009 spelling bee. The word that took Shivashankar to victory was until “Laodicean,” a phrase referring lukewarm or indifferent feelings toward religion.
The 2009 Spelling Bee Winner used the technique of writing the letters into her palm with her finger while saying them aloud.
Mirle Shivashankar told the AP that his daughter’s victory was “the moment we’ve been waiting for” and “a dream come true.”
The family plans to celebrate her victory with a birthday party, as Kavya had been too busy preparing for the spelling bee to celebrate her actual birthday, which was last week.
The 2009 National Spelling Bee runner-up Tim Ruiter from Centreville, Va. told the Associated Press that he “was just racking my brain for anything possible that could help” in reference to his missed word “Maecenas,” which is defined as “generous patron especially of literature or art” according to Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary.
Ruiter joked that to the AP that he would start spelling “Maecenas” in his sleep.
A record-breaking 293 students came to spell in the 82nd annual bee, which was aired on television for a fourth year.
Our Take:
Congratulations on the 2009 National Spelling Bee Champion title Kavya Shivashankar!
The tremendous amount of determination and hard work it takes to prepare for the national bee seems immeasurable to me. I think a birthday party is exactly what Shivashankar deserves after a win like this.
For that matter, every participant in this bee deserves some kind of reward when they return home after training for so long, before they return to the dictionary once more to prepare for the 2010 spelling bee.
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Journey – Any Way You Want It lyrics
Journey – Any Way You Want It lyrics
Any way you want it
Thats the way you need it
Any way you want it
She loves to laugh
She loves to sing
She does everything
She loves to move
She loves to grove
She loves the lovin things
Ooh, all night, all night
Oh, every night
So hold tight, hold tight
Ooh, baby, hold tight
Oh, she said,
Any way you want it
Thats the way you need it
Any way you want it
She said, any way you want it
Thats the way you need it
Any way you want it
I was alone
I never knew
What good love could do
Ooh, then we touched
Then we sang
About the lovin things
Ooh, all night, all night
Oh, every night
So hold tight, hold tight
Ooh baby, hold tight
Oh, she said,
Any way you want it
Thats the way you need it
Any way you want it
She said, any way you want it
Thats the way you need it
Any way you want it
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