With an upcoming release date of November 17th, the Left 4 Dead 2 achievement guide sheds some light on what we can expect from the 5 campaigns of murderous infected mayhem. The real treat for me will be “realism” mode. Valve VP of Marketing Doug Lombardi says this option is for the super hardcore player. I don’t know that means, but I can’t wait.

I’ve included the entire list of 50 achievements after the jump.

And for those political or philosopher nerds out there: “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously“. Valve, you cheeky bastards.

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We already knew that World of Warcraft would sport achievements with the launch of Wrath of the Lich King, but now Blizzard has revealed that they are expanding the idea to other future titles.

Users will have a unified Blizzard Account (probably much like a Steam account) that tracks achievements across all associated games the player owns. There’s even going to be a “Blizzard Level,” (read: gamerscore/Steam Rating). I didn’t see this coming, but I’m not surprised either.

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