Notice: Don’t forget to check out our latest update to this post, “Dissecting the Casts of Valve’s Left 4 Dead Series“
This post is a quick sneak peek into our forthcoming article that focuses on the evolution of the casts of Valve’s Left 4 Dead series. An interesting feature of the original campaign posters is their equal-weight character distribution: The placement of the characters rotates evenly, with very little utilization of character-specific poses and personality-emphasising traits. In the five LD41 posters (the new Crash Course included), Zoey and Francis both cover all four placement slots, with Bill and Louis found in three out of four. Illustration below:
This seems to be about to change in Left 4 Dead 2: In the two campaign posters revealed so far – Swamp Fever and The Parish – there are marked differences compared to the previous game.
