Tom, Ali, Gid and later Mike ran through Dead Air. I'm not sure whether anyone died before the gates, but in the final charge to the gate, Tom and Gid were dragged down, whilst Ali fled to safety. Mike gave up on the others and tried to save himself, but when he opened the safe-house door he was shot in the face by Ali, who then left him outside to die. :(

A textbook defence of the fuel truck saw them all comfortably safe in the plane. So that's 4 escapes, Ali's may have been a full-game survival.

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Then they ran The Parish on Advanced Realism. Mike got curious and caught the Tank's eye in the park, and they were smashed to pieces shortly afterwards.

Retries went better and saw them make it through the houses and down into the sewer, but Tom was hauled to his death by a Smoker (shouting "GID! GID! PUNT ME!"), and when the surviving three escaped into the junkyard, someone (Gid or Ali?) set off a car alarm, and they died an ignominious death atop a red car.

(On Normal)

Tom, Gid and Mike battled through Dead Centre, and their expert mall-sweeping and petrol-hurling got them away quite comfortably.

After they ran out of fuel, they fled a forest fire on foot. Mike pointed out a katana to Gid, who then became a bloodthirsty tornado of death! With Gid's sword and Mike and Tom wielding MMG and Grenade Launcher, they fought through to a waiting helicopter.

A tank ambushed, and it killed Gid. Tom, realising he was holding a defibrillator, heroically turned back to rescue him. The zombies continued to attack, and Gid dashed towards the helicopter in the confusion. Mike fought for his life, trying to find Tom, but Tom kept insisting that he be left behind.

As Gid waited in the helicopter, Mike fought desperately up the stairs alone, but was dragged down as he reached the final ladder onto the roof. Gid told the pilot to leave.

Mike and Tom and eventually Martin played "No Mercy 2"

They died repeatedly, not realising the game was constantly setting itself to "Expert"

Just before the sewers, Mike/Louis heard a Tank and warned the others, but it smashed them all and chased him up the spiral staircase. He threw fire down behind him and fled down the alley and back into the warehouse, shooting in its face.

He led it around the shelves in the warehouse and left it in agony as he dashed back down, to rescue the entire team while the tank burned to death.

Later he asked Tom to heal him in the elevator. Immediately after this he lagged out and fell through the elevator floor to his death.

Eventually the team of 3 got tired of failing and turned it down to Normal. They defeated the tanks with the aid of the grenade launcher and ran for the helicopter, but Mike made it in, while a surprise Charger carried the rest away back down the ramp. Luckily Mike was carrying the Noobsnipe and managed to kill the charger and help to cover their second retreat.

The others did some stuff too but it's harder to remember :P

Ali, Tom, James and Mike played The Sacrifice. The four caught sight of the safe house, but a jockey leapt upon the near-death Ali, killing him instantly.

The team reached the bridge, but were wiped out by an unstoppable wave of Tanks.

Later, Tom sacrificed himself bravely so that the others could survive...

Gid, Nick and Alex had some late-night zombie action, with the gameplan of 'take on the internet and win hard'. Gid took advantage of his wife being away to stay up late and play games with us late into the night :P

Dead Center Versus commenced, but a glitch meant that Gid could not play the first chapter of the campaign. His bot decided to up and die straight away, whilst our other team-member declared (as he voluntarily jumped off a ledge) that "the faster you die, the more you get to play as a zombie". Hmph. Nick and I saw a smoker below us, in prime position to finish us, hordes were coming, and reasoned that two stood no chance, and once that chapter was over, we would get Gid back....so we jumped off too. We were in a silly mood. Gid returned at that point, however, so then the real playing began.

Smack talk commenced when we realised - a couple of chapters and some solid playing later - that we were well in the lead, despite suicide on the first chapter. One internet player, named 'Bertram' on the enemy team was heavily sarcastic about Gid's surviving skills and earned a particularly niche smack-talk comeback, as Gid punned him to death:

Bertram: haha Jeb you died first (or similar)
Gid: "Hey Bertram, why dont you Russel up some brains?"

He was rude back, so we made a tactical decision to target him first. Alex finished the job, huntering him to death, and couldn't resist asking the innocent question: "Hey Bertram, didn't you hear me Russel-ing in the bushes?"