The Preemptive 2008 Game Awards

Worst title

Winner: Left 4 Dead
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Zombie themed shooters seem to be hot this year, but Left 4 Dead’s “zombies” aren’t slow-moving targets with detachable limbs, they’re speedy rabies-infected death machines controlled by a very neat mash up of cine🐼matic influences and multiplayer, and they look like a lot of fun to kill. Unfortunately for this game, having neat zombies and looking really fun doesn’t change the f🔯act that its name is horrid.

Whenever a word is replaced with a number we immediately think of 12-year-old texters running up their parent’s cell phone bills. In this case, the number four also represents the size of your zombie defense party, which is either controlled by the 🐲computer or by other players in co-op mode. This somehow makes it worse.