Back 4 Blood Reviews

Back 4 Blood is ranked in the 67th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Kyle Campbell
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Oct 16, 2021

Back 4 Blood doesn't nail all the twists it attempts, but a creative card-based progression system, fantastic campaign, and lighthearted tone make it a fun spin on a familiar genre.

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PC Gamer
Top Critic
88 / 100
Oct 15, 2021

Back 4 Blood is an exceptional FPS that sets a new standard for co-op zombie murderfests.

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Oct 13, 2021

Back 4 Blood still comes out as the best Left 4 Dead-inspired game in recent memory, taking the core design and innovating on it just enough to keep everything fresh and fun. Where Back 4 Blood gets things right, it does them really well, but where it doesn’t is often quite obvious.

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Recommended
Oct 26, 2021

Back 4 Blood is a strange mix of old and new, but it works. The result is a delightfully scrappy hang-out shooter.

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Oct 9, 2021

If you played Left 4 Dead, you’ll feel right at home. Back 4 Blood is a more mature and more bad-ass version of L4D, elevating every mechanic from the former series and making it better while adding in new features that makes playing far more rewarding. I can’t wait for my friends from the former Friday night L4D group to get their hands on Back 4 Blood when it launches next week on Game Pass. We’ve already made plans to play together, meaning a large Little Caesars pizza is in my future.

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Oct 14, 2021

Back 4 Blood is brilliant, co-op fun, with an interesting card system, but it's marred by terrible bots, awkward solo campaign choices, and a lackluster PvP mode.

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8 / 10.0
Oct 12, 2021

Back 4 Blood shines when playing with others and has enough systems, spooks, and FPS fun to make players want to come back for more

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Polygon
Top Critic
Unscored
Oct 8, 2021

Left 4 Dead is a beautiful relic, something I and many others spent hundreds of hours playing in high school and college. But with games like Warhammer: Vermintide 2 and even Aliens: Fireteam Elite branching out and taking more of a class-based approach, I was sure Back 4 Blood’s more classic bone structure would crumble under the pressure. But Back 4 Blood is more like that makeshift, armor-clad Hummer you see in every zombie show and movie: The bones of what it once was are easy to see, but it’s been reinforced to survive in a new environment.

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7 / 10
Oct 19, 2021

Back 4 Blood recaptures the spirit of Left 4 Dead while introducing some engaging modern trappings.

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VG247
Top Critic
Oct 15, 2021

Back 4 Blood takes an old-school approach where it makes sense, and modernises where it doesn’t. It’s heartening to be engaged by a game purely for its gameplay and variety, and not to pad out a progress bar somewhere.

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3.5 / 5.0
Oct 13, 2021

Back 4 Blood manages to recapture much of the magic Turtle Rock Studios crafted more than a decade ago.

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7.5 / 10.0
Oct 17, 2021
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3.8 / 5 stars
Oct 13, 2021

Back 4 Blood is Left 4 Dead in everything but name. Delivering tense co-op zombie-shooting action, it's the true spiritual successor to Turtle Rock's classic franchise.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 12, 2021

Thanks to the AI Director, incredible atmosphere and great pacing, Back 4 Blood is a triumphant return for Turtle Rock.

VideoGamer
Top Critic
7 / 10
Oct 19, 2021

In Back 4 Blood, we have been given a finely tooled zombie shooter, but it lacks the power of the original.

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IGN Spain
Jose Alberto
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Oct 12, 2021

Back 4 Blood manages to live up to its predecessors, offering an improved, deeper, funnier and more addictive experience.

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 13, 2021

If you're an old Left 4 Dead player, Back 4 Blood will bring back memories of the long play hours you've spent with this fun series, its spirit hovering around Back 4 Blood with new additions to the card system that offers greater diversity, and will add fun and longer life to the game, with full Arabic support in the MENA region.

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80 / 100
Oct 11, 2021

We're back to the old cooperative mode of busting zombies like there is no tomorrow with Back 4 Blood, the heir to Left 4 Dead that keeps the essence of the franchise alive and incorporates new mechanics, but with lessons to be learned in the field of PvP.

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8.2 / 10.0
Oct 12, 2021

Back 4 Blood continues the tradition of PvE shooters started by Turtle Rock Studios with Left 4 Dead, but offering a better gameplay dinamics and a fun campaign to play online with three other players.

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6 / 10
Oct 15, 2021

Likewise, if you are burning to play a Left 4 Dead-style game but you only have a newer console, Back 4 Blood should fit the bill, though there are several more interesting options out there if you look. At the end of the day, this is an inferior version of Left 4 Dead 2 that lacks the style, charm, gore, and engaging characters it tries to reproduce. That said, there is a decent foundation here and there are worse ways you could spend a weekend with some buddies.

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