Announcement | The Left 4 Dead 2 review

You may have seen us Twittering away that we’d be posting our Left 4 Dead 2 review at 5PM tomorrow.  We were excited.  Then some bright spark noticed that the PC version’s actually out on Steam before that, and both versions will be available in American shops by then.  Hmm.

We’ve spent a couple of hours asking around those in the known in a mad panic, as our PR contact at Electronic Arts will long have left the office.  And eventually we’ve been able to discern that, seemingly, we were accidentally given the wrong time.  In fact, the general embargo for Left 4 Dead 2 reviews in the UK clears at 5AM GMT.

Daniel’s been playing the game for the past couple of weeks, surviving the onslaught with a group of German games journalists.  His review is written, screenshots have been added, and it’s all ready to go.  All that’s Left 2 Do is click the big blue ‘Publish’ button in our content management system.

We could schedule it to go up automatically, technically.  But on occasion, something goes a bit wrong with that, and it doesn’t post properly.  For that reason, we – by which I mean me, the ever brilliant editor Lewis Denby – will be rising bright and early at 5AM to make sure it’s there, front and centre (well, top-left, actually) on the site.

Then promptly heading back to bed.

Enjoy your zombie slaying, folks…