Thread: 28 Days Later vs Left 4 Dead

Originally Posted by Truckin26

The only difference I can see is that the infected in 28 Days Later use their teeth and limbs to attack, in L4D they only use their fist.

28 Days Later is one of my favorites. I love the old zombie flicks (Romero is a horror GOD) but the fact that a mass infection could really happen make movies like 28 Days Later much more frightening.

Well if you're incapacitated, then they kick and punch you, right?
I personally love the concept of 28DL zombies, since it's a little more in-depth than the L4D ones.

its my favorite zombie movie of all time....although i have seen it too many times. great indie feel with an epic soundtrack. too bad the sequel sucked.

although zombie land may be a close second now

@SilverCypurs
That's a good point actully, also; does anyone know how the infected in L4D came into being so? I love the idea of the 'rage virus' in 28 Days Later

@Scottiedge
Horah for 'God Speed You! Black Emperor'

if you notice closely in L4D the zombies will throw up just like the zombies in 28 days later do

Well, since 28 days later only had regular people who caught the infection we'll only compare with common infected.

If you look at the common in L4D you can notice them fight, they have lost of lot of motor skills, you see them instead of punching, or grabbing they more or less hit you with a limb, like they will bat you with an arm or kick you in a flailing fashion, they can't seem to really control their fingers or move in a delicate fashion. Thy seem primarily unresponsive unless they notice a major obvious change in the environment (like for some reason another infected is charging, or they find boomer bile) whereas the infected in 28 days later are far more intelligent, have complete control over their bodies (Full finger and extremity control) and are unlike infected, just ruthless, superior humans.

Also, the rage virus didn't cause what looks like sever lack of blood flow to the extremities (This would explain the common infects skin color) and they do not seem to be 100% oblivious to pain like the L4D virus (the L4D virus considering it has destroyed their finer motor-skills would have undoubtedly destroyed almost the entire nervous system, allowing them to ignore the loss of a leg) and unlike the L4D virus it hadn't caused additional, major transformations in select humans.

In a full on fight between the two (ignoring the possibility of one virus passing onto another), the additional strength, motor-skills, mass amount of extra intelligence and superior coordination, the Rage virus would conquer the L4D virus, even with the SI that the come with the L4D virus, primarily because of the sheer lack of numbers of them considering the large populations of their sources (tanks are maybe 1 in 800, smoker seems to be 1 in 400, 1 in 300 with a hunter, 1 in 250 or so with boomers, boomers having no real difference in such an encounter).

Me thinks I put too much thought into this.