Dead Center

Dead Center is the first campaign in Left 4 Dead 2. It takes place in Savannah, Georgia, a city that has only just been hit by the Infection. The campaign starts on top of a burning hotel, where the Survivors witness the evacuation helicopters moving to a different location, and decide to follow them through the city. The Survivors' path leads them into a gun store and through a shopping mall, where they refill a Dodge Charger stock car to escape.

Below is a complete list of video walkthroughs of the 4 levels:

The Streets Part 2]
 * 1) The Hotel
 * 2) The Streets Part 1[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqwVkjSF7s
 * 1) The Mall
 * 2) Atrium

Please know that the gameplay videos are on each campaign's info page not on each map page.

== 	Notes ==

*		The campaign poster is the only Left 4 Dead 2 poster that features melee weapons in it.

**				It shows that Coach and Rochelle are both wielding a Machete. This weapon is not acquired in this campaign, only in Swamp Fever and The Parish.

**				Ellis' left arm is not fully drawn. But some may think that his left hand is behind Nick or in his pocket, making it possible for Ellis' arm to appear as though it does not exist further than the sleeve.

**				Rochelle is also dual wielding a chainsaw and a machete. This is not possible to do in-game.

*		It is not clear how the Survivors made it to the roof without encountering the Infected, since the only route to the roof is already filled with the infected. The Survivors comment on never seeing Infected before. Although on their way up to the Helicopter, they could have missed this door completely, coming from lower down. Another inconsistency is that the survivors have never seen the infected before, yet they are all carrying guns on the intro movie. (on their way up to the Helicopter) This would suggest they need them to defend themselves.

*		If you turn around at the beginning of The Hotel you can see another entrance to the roof, and a metal fence that was shown in the Zombie Survival Guide. This means that the Survivors leave the Hotel in a different route than the one they entered it from..

*		Like Dark Carnival, the tagline had been suggested on internet forums several times before reveal.

*		This campaign might be in reference to the Survival horror video game Dead Rising or the movie Dawn of the Dead, both of which take place in a shopping mall.

*		Although this campaign takes place in Savannah, the real city has no three-story malls.

*		Dead Center's music.

*		Jimmy Gibbs Jr.'s racecar is a factory street-model Dodge Charger modified with the wing from a Charger Daytona. The Daytona/Superbird had an aerodynamic nose cone and flush rear window; Gibbs' car, though it may have lost its nose cone at some point, has the tunneled rear window of a regular Charger.

*		Since the Survivors have never seen any Special Infected before, they come up with their own names in the first two chapters.

**				Boomers are referred to as Pukers, Fat-Guys, and Barf-Bags (by Rochelle); Explodey-Guys and, in fact, Boomers (by Ellis); Aunt Bee, Fatty, Goiter Man (by Nick); Roly-Polies (by Coach).

**				Hunters are called Jumpers, Hoodies, Crazy-Legs (by Coach) and "Scrawny little bitch I'm gonna kill" (by Nick).

**				Chargers are called Overalls, One-Arms, Big-Arm (by Coach), Hillbillies (by Nick), and Those Charging Things (by Rochelle)

**				Jockeys are called Humpers, Back Humpers (by Ellis), Leaping on your back bitches (by Coach), Little freaks, Leapers and Short Guys. Sometimes throughout all campaigns, Coach thinks Ellis has hopped on his back when attacked by a Jockey.

**				Smokers are called Tall Guys, Smoking Guys, Tongue, and Freaky Tongue Things (by Ellis).

**				Witches are called Crying Girls, Bitch (By Coach) and My ex-wife (By Nick).

**				Spitters are called Green Guy, Crazy Women, Long-necked Bitch, Female Zombie (Coach) Spittin' Bitch, Neck, and Nick's Mom (occasionally by Ellis)

**				Tanks are called Super zombies, Big-freakin' zombies giant things, and That-Just-Ain't-Fair's (Coach, rarely)

*		In the third level of this campaign, there is a reference to The Blues Brothers movie in the form of a shop called "Disco Pants and Haircuts". When the party walks past, Nick says, "Lots of space in this mall", which is a nod to the mall scene in the movie.

*		The Uncommon Common Infected Jimmy Gibbs Jr. might spawn in the finale though only once during it and very rarely at all. He has 1000 health and there is only a 5% chance of him spawning, when he hits you your screen starts to get covered in motor oil like the Mudman Uncommon common Infected. He, like other Uncommon Common Infected, have unique quotes said by the Survivors when they encounter him.



* 		The poster for Dead Air can be seen to the left of this campaign's poster in the loading screen, although it's nearly invisible and may be difficult to see. There also is some kind of a poster below the campaign's one, most likely Dead Air as well - or Crash Course.

* 		This is the only campaign in which a laser sight upgrade always spawns. In the second chapter, Streets, there is always a laser sight upgrade in Whitaker's Gun Shop. In the other campaigns, a laser sight is very rare.

* 		The helicopter leaving the rooftop in the introduction appears to be the same model as the one that picks up the Survivors at the end of The Parish. Most likely because both are military helicopters, MH-53 Pave Lows to be exact.

* 		There are some similarities between Dead Center and No Mercy:

** 				They are both the first campaign in their respective game.

** 				They both start off trying to get rescued by a helicopter.

** 				They both start with the Survivors on top of a living complex of some sort.

** 				The last two chapters take place in one building (No Mercy - Mercy Hospital), (Dead Center - Liberty Mall)

* 		Dead Center is the only campaign that doesn't spawn the female boomer due to the fact that "no_female_boomers" is set to 1 in the mission text.

* 		From various posters and banners in the mall, it seems the mall was closed down for a renovation and was scheduled to reopen in 2009.

* 		If one of the survivors are killed before they enter the life to go down to the lower floors (especially in Verses) and it gets to the point where they introduce themselves, one of the remaining survivors will introduce the dead survivor (I.e. If Ellis dies, Rochelle will go: "I'm Rochelle; that was Ellis")

* 		Another inconsistency is -- when the survivors introduce themselves, it would suggest they have met up in the hotel and don't know each other. Yet, in the intro, Nick knows Coach (I.e. "Maybe the helicopter is made out of Chocolate", which would suggest they know something about each other).