Death Toll

Death Toll is the third (originally, second) campaign in Left 4 Dead, spanning five chapters. It is set in a small town called Riverside, where the Survivors believe the military might be holding out and seems at least relatively safe from the Infection. On their trek to Riverside, they must go over a broken highway, a drain system, through a train yard and the nearby Riverside First Church. When they arrive, they must work their way through the abandoned town, through the park until they ultimately reach a boathouse, where they may finally be rescued from the ravaging hordes of the Infected. Valve has spoken the least of this campaign.

Below is a complete list of video walkthroughs of the 5 levels:


 * 1) The Turnpike
 * 2) The Drains
 * 3) The Church
 * 4) The Town
 * 5) Boathouse Finale

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

Official description
Shoot, shove and sprint through a nightmare suburbia consumed by the Infected horde. The Death Toll campaign has your team of Survivors making their way down a turnpike littered with abandoned cars to the nearby ghost town of Riverside—the site of a failed stand-off between the last of humanity and a limitless swarm of Infected. Fight through the ruins of small town America to the waterfront nearby, where a rescue party can take you upriver to safety.

Graffiti
Several safe houses throughout the campaign have writings of times of death and plans to move to other places such as Mercy Hospital and the airport. In one safe house, someone has spray-painted the words "Exodus 9:15". This is a Biblical verse which reads "For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth." This Bible verse, taken in context, is a message to Moses from God, telling Moses that he must warn the Pharaoh and the Egyptians. The plague was sent down and everybody who didn't heed the warning was killed.

The Graffiti in the church is mostly birth and death dates. According to these writings, the game takes place in 2009, although it was made in 2008.

Achievements

 * See Main Article: Achievements

Behind the Scenes
Death Toll is the only campaign that was not featured in pre-release materials. The only picture anybody has of any sort of beta Death Toll is an early picture of the Boathouse Finale in the game's files.


 * In the beta version of Left 4 Dead, the five chapters of Death Toll were different:
 * 1) The Caves
 * 2) The Drainage
 * 3) The Ranchhouse
 * 4) The Main Street
 * 5) The Boathouse.