Left 4 Dead/Shout Out: Difference between revisions

* The Passing has a bunch of graffiti:

{{quote| "[[Dead Rising|Otis: Out of film. No helicopters. Zombies too fast. Not going to make it. --Frank West]]"<br />

"[[Shaun of the Dead|Ed is King of the Zombies]]" }}

* Some of the graffiti (and one of the achievements) in the first game references the "Zombie Genocider" achievement of ''[[Dead Rising]]'' which rewarded the player for killing 53,594 zombies. ''Left 4 Dead'' tops it by exactly one zombie.

** Valve introduced a new twist -- the "Littlest Genocide" achievement, which requires you to kill 5,359 zombies on the Crash Course DLC campaign.

* The first game takes place in Pennsylvania, starting in Philadelphia and moving outwards from there. George Romero's movies were all set in Pennsylvania.

{{quote| '''Zoey:''' "Oh no, the Zombies killed God!"<br />

'''Francis:''' "God's dead, huh? Well, join the damn club." }}

** Louis has an unused line in Left 4 Dead 2 for picking up a Crowbar. "Man, I feel like [[Half Life|Gordon Freeman!]]"

* During Dark Carnival, you may notice "Pyro's Hamburgers" and "Heavy Gulp" signs on some of the stands.

* "[[Alien|Game over, man! Game over!]]"

* Sometimes when Zoey picks up a shotgun, she will say "[[Evil Dead|Groovy.]]"

** Usually triggered right after Francis does; he has a similar line:

* One scene in the trailer for Left 4 Dead 2 shows Coach eating a chocolate bar and another scene has Nick make fun of Coach by trying to convince him to go up the stairs faster saying that the escape helicopter is made out of chocolate. This could be a possible reference to [[Punch Out|Doc Louis]] who also had a heavy preference to chocolate.

** Note that the chocolate bar Coach is eating was a "chocolate helicopter." Just look on the box by Rochelle which says "choco Heli" and mentions something about blades.

** And by [[Jonathan Coulton|the same singer]], "Re: Your Brains."

* "Dark Carnival" may be a shout out to ''[[House of the Dead]]: OVERKILL'''s "Carny" level, or possibly the "Dark Carnival" level from ''[[Blood]]'' (a game brimming with shout outs). Or, for that matter, any of a dozen horror movies that have used [[Circus of Fear|circuses and theme parks]] as settings or set pieces.

** And, just like its predecessor, you get an achievement for carrying it with you for the whole campaign. ** Its name, "Gnome Chompsky", references the noted linguist and psychologist [[wikipedia:Noam Chomsky|Noam Chomsky]].

* "Swamp Fever" begins the same way "Crash Course" does: one Survivor having shot the infected pilot, and another berating him for it.

* [[The Blues Brothers|"Disco pants and haircuts. Man, lots of space in this mall."]]

* Part 3 of the Sacrifice comic has a poster of [[Dead Rising 2|Chuck Greene]] found in this [http://www.l4d.com/comic/comic.php?page=101 page]. It also has a hidden image of Ellis wearing Chuck's default ''Case Zero'' shirt with the text of "The Left 4 Dead 2 team congratulates the Dead Rising 2 team on their release".

* During "The Sacrifice", Francis points out that they have no evidence that Louis is not crazy, and Louis says that he would [[The Silence of the Lambs|love to make a lady suit out of Francis, and Zoey says she hates putting the lotion in the basket]].

* The achievement you get at the end of The Sacrifice if you have Bill sacrifice himself is aptly named [[Kill Bill]].