Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Vapor-X 2GB

Not too many game publishers can brag about having such a great track record like Valve can. None of their major game releases have ever been released to anything but praise, which goes to show that not rushing to release a game to please investors can make a huge difference. Take Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal, for example.

Left 4 Dead is one game I didn’t take seriously up until its launch. After playing it though, my opinions changed drastically, and even as I type this, I feel like saving the document and going to play. But, I’m also scared of Zombies, so continue writing I shall. Like Dead Space, this game is a survival shooter, but unlike that game, this title focuses completely on co-op. For the most part, the game is dulled in single player, but team up with three of your friends and let the laughs and excitement begin.

The portion of the level we use for testing is contained within the No Mercy campaign. The ultimate goal in the entire campaign is to make it to the top of a hospital in order to be picked up and brought off to safety. Our run through takes place in the final part of the the campaign, which leads up towards the roof tops. If one thing can be said about this title, it’s that causing a Boomer to explode (as seen in the above screenshot) proves to be one of the most satisfying things to do in any game I’ve played in a while.

Although our Sapphire card ranked low compared to the others in our final two graphs, the point is moot really. This is one game that runs well on almost anything, and even our lowly GTS 250 handles the game with max detail at 2560×1600 and 4xAA. If only more games were like this!

Given the fact that the card eats up this game at even our top setting, upping the anti-aliasing to 8xMSAA did nothing to the gameplay. Though the average FPS decreased, it was still remarkably playable.