Gearheads of War

In a brilliant move by Valve, Left4Dead is going to be all about playing and not about watching!  In the words of a zombie killer, F&%$ing A!

"We didn't want to have the game game gummed up with a story line," Faliszek said. "We wanted to keep it really clean and tight. A zombie apocalypse."

"It's about killing zombies, not some fable on the reconstruction of humanity."

The fact that a map will be replayed so many times also gives the developers a bit more license for how they get the story across. They can allow gamers to pull their own experience out of the game, instead of pushing a story at them.

"You're going to play a map 50 to 100 times so we can be more subtle," he said.

http://kotaku.com/5043897/left-4-dead-to-be-cut-scene-free

UPDATE: There is another nice little interview over at ShackNews.

SUPER UPDATE: Not only will Valve be offering dedicated servers for L4D, but they have already started hosting game for Team Fortress 2 (360!) WOOO HOOO!