Falls Short of What It Wants To Be

PROS
Maps are very well laid out
Unconventional putting supplies just outside of starting saferooms
Had some unavoidable witch placements and a good amount of tanks

CONS
Bots rarely grab things, and when they do, you have to push them right up against the item
Very little supplies
SI alert hordes
Events triggered by nothing

CONCLUSION
Not much variety here. I mean, a few pills, a couple adrenalines, but I found 1 of each throwable throughout the whole campaign, and two of them were right before the finale placed together. It's set up to be difficult and definitely not oversupplied, but the placement of weapons/health makes it doable without being starved of anything. However, with bots not picking anything up, it lost balance. Then there's the events. Aside from a couple elevators, you're gonna cross an invisible line (or maybe an SI will), and then an eventless horde starts, which I hate. Very good as a beta, mediocre as a "finished" campaign.

Poster Child Of Artificially Inflated Difficulty

PROS
Layout is good
Boss placement

CONS
2 medkits to start, and bots wouldn't grab them
Bots wouldn't grab weapons or medkit in map 1 around the ambulence
Map 1 Tank alerted horde, and another horde happened with no real trigger
Tank spawned and then died almost immediately, before we saw it
Map 2 and 3 had no medkits in saferoom

CONCLUSION
Maps aren't bad, it's the gameplay that needs work. I quit at map 3 when I had not had a single medkit the bots would grap. This is unacceptable in a supply-light map. I think with this fixed, since there were not overly dense hordes or "run to the saferoom" events, the map is doable with the limited supplies. However, it would still feel like playing a cheap, OP boss battle. And this is after I restarted on Easy just to see if I'd get a reasonable amount of supplies.

Worth A Play

PROS
Really well supplied
Maps are interesting
Ruined city environments well designed

CONS
Finale is weird
At start, bots don't want to grab one medkit in particular
Way too many instances of the incoming horde roar without any real event trigger
Depending on the original author, direction could be lacking

CONCLUSION
Not bad. It's kinda long, and pretty disconnected, but that should be expected from a campaign built from other campaigns. City maps were pretty good, but it gets weird after that. Finale is a mess, and at one point, you will have to go down a stairwell that looks blocked, but you can sort of jump over the rail and fall down so you can reach the cannon you have to push. I'm not positive that that is the right way, and may be an exploit, but if that's true, then I have no idea where I was supposed to go. Definitely an unconventional way to end a campaign that started as a pretty normal cityscape.

Pretty Damn Good

PROS
Almost overly supplied
Great dark atmosphere
Events are well done

CONS
Lots of instances in earlier maps of hordes being started without an actual trigger
Tank said it needed 13 cans, but it fired after 8
Start of map 1 felt glitchy

CONCLUSION
It was fun. I didn't read the description until later, which explains why I was playing the finale thinking everything was familiar. Complaints are pretty minor, but the frequency with which a horde event starts without there being any button or switch for me to activate made it feel a little beta. The beginning was odd- instantly, I see [Tank Death] on screen, and then a horde starts. Not sure if we're supposed to hit the ground running with a tank attack, but the Tier 2 weapons at the start made it feel that way. Either way, the campaign was really well done.

Cool

Worked fine for me. I really like that the mods are separated- it lets me use just the pipebomb mod while keeping my molotov modded as jack daniels.

Excellent!

PROS
Map design
Well made events
Great finale layout
Lots of supplies
Caged witches
Preserved zombies in museum
Great finale map

CONS
Museum gauntlet will double up on SI sometimes

CONCLUSION
Thought it was great. While there are only a few events, they are well done, lengthy, and are often hard to camp during. However, you should never be low on supplies, so it remains balanced. This is particularly emphasized in the finale- if you want to camp by the ample amount of supplies, you sacrifice the high ground for a room with 4 large openings. There are a few things thrown in to make it memorable, like a hallway full of real witches in cages or the iconic diagram of evolution made out with infected models. Good job!

A Must Play

PROS
Very interesting map designs
Dynamic layouts
Nasty witch spawns

CONS
At one point, there are multiple arrows telling you to use a PC, then nothing tells you to leave that area and keep going downstairs.
At the first 2 gates in Map 1, hitting the switches did nothing, then suddenly, I hit one and a door crushed 2 bots with no warning.

CONCLUSION
Great campaign! You will have to deal with witches that you can't avoid, especially in earlier maps when you don't have Tier 2 weapons. The layouts are non-linear, but there are only a few places you can actually get lost. The Xen finale is weird, but not bad.

Glitchy At Best, Then Map 3 Ruins It All

PROS
Really good environment
Supplies marked
Good events
Good boss placement
Interesting laser- health thing

CONS
Bots get progressively worse. They pick up less and less stuff until Map 3, where they won't grab anything
Map 3 starts with no medkits
Many " 'SI' alerted the horde" without anything actually being triggered.
Map 3, when you hunt for generators, bots won't get on elevator, causing them to perpetually fall off the ledge and help each other up.
Map 3, while following arrows, requires you start generators in a certain order.

CONCLUSION
For the first 2 maps, it plays well, even if bots won't pick things up all the time. Then Map 3 decides to turn a playable campaign into another (unfortunately common) example of bots hindering play so much a single player can't enjoy the game. (Seriously, do this many authors just test maps with humans and publish without playing alone, or do they actually release it knowing full well bots don't work because "who cares if single players can play- you're supposed to play with others"?).  No saferoom medkits at the start, although the cool thing with lasers heals you. When the bots started failing at the generator event in Map 3, I figured I could run through it, find the generators and get the lift back up, and I probably could have, if they weren't specifically ordered. So no, while 3 bots are stuck on an infinite loop of "get stuck on a ledge where the lift was because our nav wasn't coded well enough to make us follow the player down there.", I'm not following arrows only to find it's not the right generator.

No

PROS
Started with pistols/melee and a grenade launcher and had to fight a tank.
Pretty well supplied

CONS
Map 2, no direction.

CONCLUSION
It was a pretty good start, having to fight a tank with 3 bots on pistols and me shooting grenades. And then it's nice enough to supply you pretty well after that. Then you get to map 2. There is literally no direction. No arrows, no guiding lights, nothing. I found by accident that you can shoot grates and make a new path. I was willing to overlook to copy/pasted areas from original campaigns in Map 1, but the author just copy/pasted a dark labyrinth for Map 2 and it gets boring real quick. Maybe the finale's good, I don't know, and probably never will.

More Like Fort Kickass

PROS
Good custom voice
Good military environment
Good finale layout- item placement kept me moving around
Keeps L4D1 item placement

CONS
A bot got stuck after the cannon event, didn't want to follow me .
In the finale, bots didn't want to grab weapons or health at the start.
Next to the radio, bots didn't want to grab weapons, either, so I had one end up on pistols when it didn't need to
Couldn't find ammo pile or health during finale

CONCLUSION
A good, fast campaign. A few bot glitches, but that's about it.

Aimed High, Fell Far

PROS
No Mercy environment feels exactly like I'm running around another part of that campaign.
Boss placement
Interesting concept- starting with Tier 2 weapons but not placing enough for everyone.
Long maps
Lots of changes from sprawling warehouse/parking lot environments to cramped, dark buildings.

CONS
Lack of direction- worst in Map 1 sewers (where arrows point in wrong direction) and Map 4 hospital.
Bots fight you the whole campaign, not wanting to pick up guns, ammo, health, pills, so they're constantly undersupplied and basically on pistols the whole time.
Map 3 sewer event trigger doesn't light up until you shoot the box.
Map 4 event is terrible- nothing tells you to shoot the boxes and throw a pipe down there and I only discovered that out of frustrated desperation.
Finale is broken- there's no indicator where to start the rescue, and I gave up after searching every room. If there is a finale trigger, then I'd take off just as many stars for not having lit up.
Not a single on- screen cue.

CONCLUSION
This definitely tries to be a harder, longer take on No Mercy, and it nearly gets it right. However, with abysmal direction and bots playing about as good as your grandmother would, this needs a lot of polishing. The original author must have never played this game before, otherwise they would've known that typically you can make things glow blue and give players instructions. But, with a little work, this could be a very fun homage to No Mercy.

Entertaining, But Glitchy

PROS
Great map design and layout
Good tank placement at Map 4 start and downed plane event

CONS
Maps 2 and 3 in particular spawn like 6 hordes before you leave the saferoom
Bots will not grab pills ever
Managed to get Louis to pick up a Tier 2 weapon in Map 2, but other than that, no bots will grab a Tier 2 weapon at all until Map 4.
Quite a few moments of SI alerting the horde for no reason.
Glitchy rescue boat- bots won't get close enough

CONCLUSION
Totally playable, despite the glitches. I camped out in the saferooms at the start of Maps 2 and 3 after reading the other comments, but they do eventually subside, and apart from that, the gameplay is pretty balanced. It's been mentioned a lot, but the inability for the bots to get in the rescue vehicle is a pain in the ass. I guess one of them was outside the radius of safety, cause until a tank incapped Louis, I stood on the boat and tried not to die when I've alread won. Had a lot of fun with it, though.

Could Be Really Good

PROS
Intro
Custom voice actually remains with you
Music
Not overwhelmed by horde during puzzles
Lots of custom instructions

CONS
Bots had to be pushed directly over weapons at beginning
Bots didn't want to pick up medkit before forest event.
Crashed in Map 2 as I tried the lift after finally figuring out how to turn on power.
Supplies not in saferoom, spread too far out.
Map 1 finale takes so long to open gate  (horde didn't appear for about 2 min. after pressing switch), I was about to quit the game

CONSLUSION
This is the first campaign I've seen that makes an effort to curb the director when it makes you explore and waste a lot of time (or maybe I had a nice director on my playthrough), and that made the forced exploration tolerable. Either way, the time wasting combined with bots not wanting to grab weapons and health made me quit when the crash happened in Map 2. The custom music and voice acting set the stage very well, and I appreciate the skippable intro for repeat players. With a good update, this thing would be fantastic.

Awesome

PROS
So much custom stuff
Great design
Long, challenging levels
Well supplied
Multi- event finale
Map events very well done

CONS
Kind of a long wait time between starting things and horde spawning during finale

CONCLUSION
Everything about this campaign is great.

Don't Waste Your Time

PROS
The design looked pretty good

CONS
Constant issues with bots not grabbing things
No balance
Map 1 only had pistols and melee
Map 2 there's no direction where to go

CONCLUSION
This campaign attempts to be one of the iconic custom campaigns that don't follow traditional L4D2 rules. However, it does not keep the balanced gameplay that is needed. If you're gonna put all starting supplies/guns outside the saferoom, it shouldn't be halfway through a map. Map 1 gave me nothing but pistols, some katanas, and of course, the bots wouldn't touch the first medkits we saw. When I got to the sewers in Map 2 and couldn't find a path due to inadequate direction, I decided I was done. I think there is a good campaign in there, but it needs a ton of fixing.

Not Bad

PROS
Dark
Plenty of Supplies
Good sewer design
Helicopter can incap

CONS
Bots take a while to grab items at campaign start, wouldn't pick up weapons in Map 2 or 4 saferooms.
The very last part of the sewers is poorly put together, making it hard for bots to crawl out
Items in saferooms sometimes floating or just below where they're meant to be placed.
No ammo pile in finale

CONCLUSION
Quick and fun, but didn't feel like it had been completely finished or balanced. All but map 3 are able to be done pretty quickly, and without taking that much damage, especially with bots able to see far away enemies that I couldn't because of the dark atmosphere. Then Map 3 plays like an entirely different campaign- it's more of a challenge than the other 3 maps combined. With a missing ammo pile, the finale wasn't entirely a crapshoot, but still, if you grab the hunting rifle, you can drop just about everything before they can reach you.

Good Campaign

PROS
Darker No Mercy
Removed L4D2 items to bring back the L4D1 feel

CONS
Bots wouldn't grab ammo in the finale
Bots wanted to get stuck on a ladder in the elevator shaft this time.

CONCLUSION
Don't know what happened, but version 1.0 played perfectly for me, while this one has dumber bots in the finale. Still good, though.

Gotta Reach For The Top, Stay On The Mountain

PROS
Maps were very well done
Caves were great
Well supplied
Great finale

CONS
Just before the Map 2 event, If you hear a tank, you can trigger it by running up to the barricade and jumping around, but as dense as the horde was in that event, I'm glad it happened.

CONCLUSION
Excellent job. Finale was awesome- really enjoyed that each room and level has different supplies. It gives you incentive to run around instead of camping close to the ammo and health, and that's a gem among so many finales that either don't make it worth your time to utilize the whole map, or force you to move so you can never really stop and regroup and heal/ grab ammo. New 3 maps were just as good as the first 2.

Needs Work

PROS
Decently supplied
Fun events with custom instructions

CONS
Lack of direction- easy to get lost
Bots don't grab hardly anything outside of saferooms
Finale has no indicator where to go
A bot killed itself on the ladder in Map 4 coming down from the grain towers.
Map 4 grain event doesn't spawn a horde
Very barren- these big environments take up data, but most of it is filled with nothing.

CONCLUSION
It was a 3/5 star campaign up until the finale. Bots played sort of normal, and there were good supplies. I was really happy to see custom instructions thrown up for some events, but the author dropped the ball when it comes to directional arrows. My last straw was on the finale, when rescue comes. I collected ammo and fired the gun until it said rescue arrived, then ran across the bridge. Got stopped by a chunk missing from it, and nothing comes to save us. Where is the damn rescue if it's not across the bridge that I've been firing a cannon towards? Oh, and at the start of the last map, don't go straight across the tree- if you don't know to make a right, you'll find some watery area off a ledge, that if you go off, you can't climb back up and have to drown yourself to restart. Similar thing happens in Map 4 if you get Charger-ed into the river. If you can't get out of the water, the author should have the decency to kill us so spare us the time. There is also no need to have such large maps when there's not much filled in, unless the author wanted us to get lost and waste time.

Horrible

PROS
Some of the environment looks nice
Good supply of weapons and ammo
Lots of bosses

CONS
Not one saferoom has medkits
Bots don't always pick things up, and when they do, you have to push them to the item
Bots will incap/kill themselves off a ladder in Map 2
No event highlights the start switch, even with the instructor turned on.
Absolutely no direction in finale when rescue comes
After Map 1, suddenly there isn't enough direction to the path

CONCLUSION
It is technically playable, but it will waste your time. The bots glitch off a ladder in Map 2 and waste all the medkits. Only way to make them stop is by bolting ahead and hoping they teleport. This isn't that bad by itself, since they function at about 75% most of the time, but then there's no medkits in any saferoom. For above average frequency of specials and density of hordes, there is no reason the saferooms shouldn't be supplied. I finally gave up hope for this campaign when I played through the finale. Bots at least will grab medkits (if you push them over them long enough), but won't refill ammo. I don't know how I made it to rescue, but when it arrives, there's no indication of where to go. It's a huge area, and there's no car sounds, no helicopter, nothing. You hear rescue music and I guess are just supposed to stumble into the right place. Never found where it is, and there's no way in hell I'm playing it again to find out.

A 4 Map Crash Course

PROS
Layout, events, and environment

CONS
None

CONCLUSION
Could be a direct sequel to crash course. Very well done.

Troll Map: Don't Play

PROS
First 3 maps are actually not bad

CONS
Too many witches

CONCLUSION
There's no way this wasn't made to troll us. I got overwhelmed in the hospital, so eventually turned it down to easy to get through it. I had 56000 damage to witches when I finished. Then the finale is worse- you have to deal with easily 40 witches on the hospital roof, then the finale spams double boomers, double hunters, and all on a map layout that we're all familiar with. Seriously, unless you're dying for witch training, don't let this troll waste your time.

Nearly Perfect

PROS
Dynamic layouts inside a sprawling environments.
Great events

CONS
Maps 2 and 4 saferooms had no supplies at all
Map 3 saferoom only had guns
In Map 2, near the room with ammo, bots would not pick up guns or ammo until I pushed them so close they were touching
In finale, a bot got stuck on top of one of the large crates, and the second tank couldn't find us when I jumped onto that same crate from the ledge with the ammo pile.
Bots don't always find pills by themselves.
In finale, bots were reluctant to grab health- had to push two of them up to the box
Not all events have clear instruction- I have game instructor enabled, but sometimes nothing was highlighted or telling me how to start an event.

CONCLUSION
Just needs a little bit of polishing. If the only thing fixed was the saferoom supplies, I'd give it 5 stars. Other than that, make the bots a tad more sensitive to medkits and ammo, and make some of the event triggers more obvious (the shooting gas can events are probably fine, though), and you've got a 10/10 campaign.

Good Clean Up Job Of A Good Old One

PROS
Good military atmosphere
Layout is easy to follow
Hard boss placements
Good events
Challenging finale
Well supplied in first 4 maps

CONS
Bit of lag in Maps 1 and 3
In Map 2, just before climbing the rubble into the burning building, there is a glitchy patch right on the wall across the street.
Map 2 finale, the bots will try to teleport into the saferoom during the event
Finale needs 1 more ammo pile along the way
Map 3 had issues with bots deciding to stop moving and having to teleport to me later.

CONCLUSION
I had fun. I haven't played the original version in a while, but I think I remember it lagging a lot more than this one does. The crash course van no longer spawns randomly, and in the Map 2 event, the bots will teleport out of the saferoom and help in this version. The only game- breaking part was in Map 2. If you hug the wall of the building across the street from the burning building, there's a patch where you get stuck. You can't jump or crouch, and throwing a bile jar at my feet didn't spawn a horde to kill me and restart, so I had to exit the campaign. Other than that, it was easy to run out of ammo in the finale.

Good Campaign Only Missing Balance

PROS
Atmosphere was very well done
Challenging events
Good amount of throwables

CONS
Hordes are excessive at times- far too big to toss in witches and lots of armored zombies in events
Definitely not enough ammo piles or health
Had a few horde alarms pop up on screen without activating anything
First tank in finale couldn't find me and died, even though I was on top of the building with the radio

CONCLUSION
The hordes aren't quite as bad as everyone made them out to be, but they're far from balanced. Map 1 had a witch in a doorway, while I had 3 armored zombies charging me, along with a dense horde of commons. At least in the sewers, the armored zombies weren't there, but I saw at least 2 witches while trying to move in a horde so thick, I couldn't move forward with a chainsaw. The event in the area with barrels is good, but there weren't enough supplies to deal with those kind of hordes and tanks. A couple times, the horde alert flashes up without triggering anything. These always bother me, because it gives it a beta feel. Scripted hordes are fine, but hell, give us a button to push so it doesn't feel out of place. As it is now, the campaign plays fine, but don't bother playing at the same difficulty you do on balanced campaigns.

Lots of Potential, But Still Plays Like A Beta

PROS
Lots of events
Layout is generally good
Some parts of the atmosphere look nice
Good finale
Good amount of throwables
Great boss placement and lots of them

CONS
So much botnav problems. They don't want to get health and weapons at start, but after a while, and pushing, they will. They would not grab about 40% of things outside of a saferoom, and even in saferooms, they had trouble finding medkits. They don't like getting in the Map 1 elevator, they didn't want to get in the truck, and had trouble climbing up the ladder at the Map 4 saferoom. At the end of the truck event, they teleport way back in the parking lot for no reason. And any time I handed Louis pills (cause it's not like they were grabbing them, themselves), he took them.
At the end of Map 2, bots will end up burn themselves to death trying to get to the saferoom just behind the blockade.
The truck is hard to get into and during turns, will phase you through its walls and out of it.
So many hordes triggered with absolutely no explanation.
Needs more directions. The only reason I know we have to do things is because things light up.
Specials can spawn inside final saferoom.
Lots of instances of hordes spawning right before my eyes
Map 2 starting saferoom has nothing in it
Map 4 started doubling and tripling Smokers.
Map 5 doubled up on Hunters
Hitting the power to reach the truck makes the whole world shake and glitch.

CONCLUSION
Lots of events and bosses is a good thing- it makes a map challenging and fun. Spawning hordes for absolutely no reason isn't fun- if you're gonna make an event, give it a real trigger, not just "oh, they took 6 steps- time to horde them." The botnav was pretty bad. They ignored things, often when I really needed them to grab ammo so they wouldn't fight 6 hordes with pistols. Just getting that patched up would make this a 4 star campaign, even with the glitchy events and dozens of "alerted the horde" messages that happen for no reason. That truck event is probably the low point- just leave the ammo and get rid of the mounted guns so we can get in it easy. Maybe speed it up, but absolutely fix the part where it teleports the bots down in the garage after it crashes, and the part where it phases us through the wall.

Review Updated: 5/2015 Version 6.0

You'll Beat It Once And Never Touch It Again

CONS
Even with bodies to loot, it might be the most undersupplied map I've played.

CONCLUSION
It's not a campaign, it's a boss battle that puts you in a finale immediately after. Once you figure out how to beat him, it's easy and has zero replay value.

Get Ready to Rumble

PROS
Great cityscape and interesting layouts
Lots of supplies
Rescue pushes you out of the ring so the chopper doesn't crush you

CONS
Lots of areas where it looks like you can hop over stuff, but you can't.
Not great at pointing where to go.

CONCLUSION
Good maps. Finale is a little bland compared to the maps, and the direction could be better, but the campaign is fun.

Japanese Game Show Meets L4D2

PROS
Layouts were very good
Well supplied
The annoying cola lady blew up lol

CONS
The cola lady has a voice more annoying than Rochelle's, which I didn't think possible.

CONCLUSION
Very well done, but as weird as any Japanese game show I've seen. Have no idea why there were witches in the finale, or why their death made a lasers that opened an escape pod, but it worked.

Good Tweaks

PROS
Still was No Mercy, even with alterations
Finale has the old setup, not the garbage new one where the stairs are outside.
Finale lasts a lot longer and sends double tanks.

CONS
Didn't notice a new panic event
Bots won't always get in helicopter- had to kill two of them

CONCLUSION
A good modification to the original No Mercy, especially with a much more challenging finale.

Not Authentic From Beginning, Then Deteriorates

CONS
Tons of armored zombies (which didn't exist in L4D1 and so shouldn't have been there)
Bots froze at Map 3 start and wouldn't move or grab ammo or health.

CONCLUSION
I would be more lenient if this was original work, but since the author took everything about the map from the already functional No Mercy, there should be no bot errors beyond the typical Source glitches, nor should there be loads of Uncommons that weren't introduced until L4D2. That's where 3 out of 4 stars went- the author marketed this as an authentic port, and then didn't deliver.

A Well Designed Nightmare

PROS
Good atmospheres and layouts
Changing environments worked well
Loads of bosses
Moria
Final shot of waking up

CONS
A lot of the Run to Saferoom events weren't explicit
Bots don't pick up the very first medkits
Dead Air logo after winning.
Didn't find medkits at finale site.

CONCLUSION
A hellish fight through your own dream. The disconnected atmospheres are seamed together by the safe(bed)rooms. If you can make it through Moria, though, then you can beat the thing- it spawns tanks with the hordes (took me 5 'incoming attacks' to get there, so 5 tanks after I dealt with the one in Balin's tomb) once you reach the bottom of the stairs, and I had a witch on the stairs just before that. It's tough, but it's fair- it will give you enough health and ammo, but unfortunately, the bots just will not pick up the first medkits, which forces single players to do extremely well in Maps 1 or 2 (if you leave the Map 3 or beyond saferooms with nothing in reserve, you're gonna struggle). The finale is fortunately easier than most maps, which is good, because I don't think there's health there, and it gave me no throwables. Very well done. Also, it seems some people are hating on Moria- watch Lord of The Rings and you'll understand how well made that map was.

A Mashup of Valve Campaigns Made Harder

PROS
Good map layouts- even in the swamp it wasn't hard to find the path
Dynamic weather and changing atmosphere contributes to story
Finale has a great setup
Events are good
Felt like a few original campaigns mashed together to create this

CONS
During the rainy chapters, the map didn't like to load until I was very close- saw a lot of light blue background with zombies before the setting loaded.
Rainy chapters frequently lagged or got stuck on short loops
After running to the saferoom truck, I couldn't open the door until bots teleported inside
Map 5 starts with no supplies (as far as I could find)
Bots didn't like to climb up to the top of the roof where the health is.

CONCLUSION
A tough campaign that seems to merge Hard Rain, The Parish, and The Swamp, ending in a No Mercy style rooftop finale. The transitioning weather and setting helps tell the story of the journey. Though fair with supplies in most maps, the fifth gives you nothing after you've just fought through a huge horde to end Map 4. Speaking of the Map 4 finale, I'm not sure if the door wouldn't open because 30 zombies spawned inside the safe-truck, or if it just wouldn't open. I only got in because the bots teleported inside and it opened after that, so I'm not even sure if a team of 4 players could get it. Other than those 2 things, there are just some minor lag issues, but all the cons put together made it feel like a very well done beta version instead of a truly complete campaign. Even so, this is a great campaign.

Short And Sweet

PROS
Good atmospheres
First map has lots of potential for insta- kills by a well spawned SI to keep it from being too easy
Horde kinda just stops in the finale, which is a relief for single players in a scavenge finale.

CONS
No tanks in finale

CONCLUSION
Short, easy, but the layout is nice to maneuver. Overabundance of throwables makes it entertaining, even if the only real challenge is the high possibility of being knocked to your death by Specials in Map 1.

Good Restoration to L4D1 Death Toll

PROS
Death Toll
Well supplied
Removed the perma- horde in Riverside
Restored the finale to the original item placement

CONS
No church guy
Bots can bypass the event at the church

CONCLUSION
Very well done in the aspect of returning Death Toll to the L4D1 version. However, the one significant change at the church is bugged. As I was laying down gas cans, the bots just teleported inside the saferoom, which caused the gate to open on its own and I didn't have to do the event at all. Other than that, well done.

Good Escape From City

PROS
Lots of events
Events were well done
Great atmosphere and layouts
Nasty placement of bosses.
Epic finale layout
Well supplied

CONS
Mostly in the first map, a Special can trigger a horde.
Some hordes started for no reason.
No supplies in saferoom.
No direction to start the finale, or where rescue was when it arrived.
Tanks took a long time to find me in the finale.
After rescue, it teleported us back to a saferoom before credits rolled.

CONCLUSION
A difficult, action packed trek through a city. Lots of events and bosses placed at difficult areas (tanks near small areas with lots of cars to hit, or a witch right at the top of a manhole) It's a little annoying that none of the saferooms were supplied (which defeats the purpose of having saferooms), but the ample amount of supplies keeps it fair. What was really bothersome was the random horde triggers that Specials could trigger. It's not that it isn't fun, but I like to have some sort of prep, or see something happen that makes sense to trigger a horde. Finale has a great layout, but something happened to make the tanks not find me quick while I stood on top of a humvee next to the ammo (the first one never found me at all). But all in all, this campaign is great.

A Real Help

For us that play with bots, this is really convenient.

Could Use Some Polishing

PROS
Change from day to night
Event and finale were pretty good
Extremely supplied

CONS
Invisible models
Bots sometimes slow to react
Bots refused to go through the garage doors, instead taking the long way around
Bots wouldn't run close enough to the car. You either have to incap them, or wait for something to make them accidentally get close enough.
Sometimes when horde is alerted, it takes them a while to appear, if they come at all (only about 20 zombies showed up for the cannon event)

CONCLUSION
Short and easy. If you're looking just to screw around and dominate the horde with nearly infinite throwables, weapons, and health, this is your map. If you're looking for a challenging, well polished map, this isn't it. The bots play fine, but sometimes will just lose their intelligence. This is particularly annoying in the finale, because if you get too close to the (wide open) garage doors, they'll run around the side of the building because they don't know they can go through the middle. With just a little more effort in botnav, and fixing the invisible models in the middle maps, this would be an excellent (albeit easy) campaign.

A Good Play

PROS
Atmosphere is nice
Layout is dynamic, but not so much that it's confusing
Finale is fun
Well supplied

CONS
The part with the burning building gets a little bit hard to see and follow the path
One bot wouldn't grab a medkit in finale saferoom
Bots seemed to fall behind more and react slower than usual

CONCLUSION
Pretty good campaign. Events were well done, finale was good, and throwing a witch in a blinding, burning building led to a couple great scares.

It's Pretty Good

PROS
Good layout and atmosphere
Fun events
3 Maps are well supplied

CONS
Did not see much ammo in the finale
Finale layout not so good

CONCLUSION
The maps are very well made, but that finale can just drag on and on. With all the stairs, it just gets so congested and stale quickly. You have to burn some ammo, because there's a dense horde the whole time, but you aren't given much. If it didn't give me throwables often enough, the tedium would have dropped the campaign down 2 stars instead of 1.

Game On

PROS
Good atmosphere
Finale arena was real cool.
Dynamic layout- multiple ways to get where you're going.

CONS
In the arena, it doesn't show where the radio is until you get real close.
At one point in Map 3, a bot fell off, caught the ledge, but something caused it to just fall anyway.
Bots will jump off lift sometimes, making you ride it back down and try again.

CONCLUSION
Pretty fun. Good city layout, and pretty dynamic- a few times I chose a route, later to see arrows coming from another way, which will make subsequent playthroughs just as fun. The arena is set up nicely, but like others have said, the tank placements do make it a bit easy. Good map that plays as well as an original campaign, and is about as difficult.

The Name Isn't Lying

PROS
Atmospheres are varied, but not disconnected- it really shows the journey you have to go through.
Well supplied
Tons of events to keep you on your toes.
Map with lots of witches (and a tank) right before saferoom.
Having the L4D1 for support helps ease the tedium of the scavenge finale.

CONS
Occasional lapse in showing the path
The event on the rooftop with the forklift is just a little too easy to get murdered by chargers.
Can get a tank with a horde in at least 1 event.

CONCLUSION
Tons of events, some of which include running past witches or dealing with a tank while an onslaught chases you to a saferoom. Fortunately, you are given ample supplies to deal with the madness, and you can finish off with a well laid out trainyard finale with L4D1 survivors helping out, which is always a welcome help when you have to put up with scavenge. Don't believe that Average tag- it's a Hard map, but fun from start to finish.

Shouldn't Have Been Left Unfinished

PROS
Very detailed forest/ruins
Finale is pretty good

CONS
No variety in weapons
Torches don't flicker that much
Path not always clear, mostly because it's too dark
Bots didn't want to grab health/weapons in Map 2 saferoom
Bots wouldn't pick up Tier 2 weapon in finale area, using Tier 1 instead.
Bots liked to get stalled near the vine ladder to climb on the finale roof area- they'd stop doing anything.
Finale stalled on first try- 2nd tank never spawned so I was stuck.
Bots on second try make it to the end, but won't jump in the rescue vehicle to trigger the victory.
Lag

CONCLUSION
As a beta, this is nearly ready, and has the makings of a fun, albeit short, campaign. Not sure why it got abandoned, but after 4.5 years, clearly it's as complete as it ever will be, and it's not great as a finished map.

Fun, but only for those with Mario nostalgia.

PROS
Mario, obviously. The atmosphere and layout are very well done, feeling like Mario but also like L4D as well.
Finale is fun.
Shooting blocks for items.

CONS
Bots can't handle the double moving blocks in map 3- probably got lucky one of them survived.
Fires inside the 1-4 castle wreck bots
Map 1, if you climb the wrong warp pipe, the bots get stuck and can't get down the ladder easily. Definitely follow the arrow instead of exploring at this point.
Some points it's just too easy for a Charger, Smoker, or Tank to send you falling to your doom.

CONCLUSION
Mario fans will enjoy, even with the glitchy bots. Without being a fan of Mario, this is not a terribly exciting campaign, and the bot problems would keep me from replaying. However, considering how different L4D is from Mario, I'd have to say the botnav is as good as possible and I'm impressed it was as good as it was- Map 3 is really the only problem and by far the worst map.

Pros:

Indiana Jones
The finale
The ride
Audio

Cons:

Not enough weapon variety

Conclusion:

A fun little campaign. The finale is a lot higher octane than I was expecting after the easy other maps.

Pros:

Support from L4D1 survivors
Constant events, but with enough breaks in hordes to let you progress.
Tons of tanks
Witches placed in tough spots
Finale layout is nice

Cons:

Difficulty artificially inflated from severe lack of supplies- finale didn't even have an ammo pile or health.
Crashed after Map 2
Froze after Map 4- had to start task manager to shut down the program
Bots can't reach health in Map 4 due to broken ladder.
Tanks spawn inside Map 3 and 4 saferooms.
Hordes can spawn in every saferoom

Conclusion:

It wasn't too bad at first. Sure, it was tedious to have constant hordes most of the time, but it wasn't fun enough to restart at Map 1 when it crashed, so I started map 3 very undersupplied. The saferooms might as well not exist, since they are often filled with zombies and there are plenty of other rooms with more supplies. The difficulty is high enough that the campaign didn't need to keep the saferooms nearly bare, but not every mapper knows how to make a difficult, but fair map. To top it all off, you get to Map 4 and there are tons of health packs, but there's a short ladder the bots want to climb and it doesn't let you up all the way, and they don't know to just hop onto the platform, so you're stuck with all that health but no way to get your bots equipped. I was gonna just keep going but then it froze on me before loading the finale, and that was the last straw.

Pros:

Lots of witches
Great finale layout
Generator event
First half of finale is epic

Cons:

Map 1 event never seems to end, so I just kept going, despite it telling me to hold out, which by definition should mean to sit there and defend.
Tank right after a bunch of witches
Many guns only have 1 pickup- this isn't fair if you're gonna give us 4 witches and a tank in close proximity.
Going up the stairs in the finale is just absurd- way too dense hordes to climb.
Bots didn't want to grab weapons in the finale, and since there's no ammo pile, they used pistols on the stairs.

Conclusion:

It might be short, but it screws you from the start to the finish. It would be an epic 5 star campaign if there were just a few tweaks, particularly in botnav. It's definitely one you have to strategize for- I camped at the door, and then got thrown for a loop, and I didn't have a melee going up the stairs at the end and that was a poor choice. Having to do that really brings you back to the early days of L4D, when the original finales were hard and you couldn't just wing it. Well done.

Pros:

Down sized version of Dead City

Cons:

Finale ends at scavenge
Bot didn't want to run to the humvee

Conclusion:

Exactly what it says, it's a short version of Dead City. Unfortunately, one of the three maps from the original is the tank scavenge event, and the bot got stuck. It certainly doesn't immerse you in the atmosphere quite as well as the original, and the bridge event felt harder (watched bots get stuck surrounded by zombies unable to move a few times).

Pros:

City atmosphere
Well supplied
Gun Store
Events were fantastic
Good finale

Cons:

Layout a little hard to follow at times
Occasional lag issues
Finale had no tanks until rescue arrived
Had zombies spawn in one saferoom, and a smoker in another.
Scavenge event.

Conclusion:

A pretty challenging campaign that fortunately keeps you supplied well enough to deal with everything. Tons of events to keep you entertained. Great job.

Pros:

Voice acting
Finale was great
Atmosphere and layout was good
Lots of ammo and molotovs
Lots of tanks and witches

Cons:

No indication how to start Map 1 event
Had one bot not want to pick up a medkit and another not want to grab a weapon for all of Map 1
Very little diversity in weapons- had to wait to the finale to see an AK, combat shotgun, or Military Sniper, and I never saw bile.
All of Map 2- never found alarm shutoff, bots glitched through a truck to get to the saferoom when I had to run down the parking deck, and Ellis would not stop yelling one line.
Undersupplied saferooms- I don't think any had a full 4 medkits.

Conclusion:

A short campaign with custom voice acting and maps that look appealing, but mediocre bot nav and various other bugs detract from the gameplay. Fortunately, it's not very hard, so the idiot bots and poor instruction can be put up with. You're really playing this for the finale- it's fun and the bots get their shit together by then.

Pros:

Great design
Easy to follow layout
Atmosphere was a lot like Blood Havest, but brighter.
Good amount of supplies
Events were well done, especially Map 4.
Finale is great
Custom music
Custom voice acting was good
Lots ofcommon and specials

Cons:

I never saw any scoped rifles, and only 1 defib.

Conclusion:

Feels like an official campaign, but with more roaming commons and more frequent specials to make it just a bit harder. The custom voice and music are very well done, adding even more to the gameplay. The objects/ scenery stolen from official campaigns pay tribute without being overdone- you notice them, but the campaign still feels original. The Map 4 alarm event sticking a temporary saferoom halfway through the running was a nice reprieve from the "run to the saferoom" event, which can get dull if too long or so dense you can't move, but by timing it, kept the excitement up. Same thing with the finale- instead of having to grab tons of gas cans, the author keeps things from getting tedious by having the scavenge only be one part of the finale.

Pros:

Terrifying atmospheres
Good change in environments really tell a story
Nice amount of supplies
Map 3 event
Custom things (chemical spills, thing in the church)

Cons:

Way too dark in some areas
Big environments often with no direction where to go, especially after map 2.
Bots didn't like picking up supplies in Map 1.
Prison event with all the doors doesn't indicate what to do.
Instruction for turning on power to the door didn't appear until I had already found it.
After destroying the core, I'm not sure if you actually only have 2 min. to escape, but if that's true, a timer should appear onscreen.

Conclusion:

One of the darkest, longest struggles I've played through. Nearly perfect, except for the lighting and direction. Some maps had arrows, but not enough to keep me from running into dead end after dead end. There is dark, and then there is too dark. If you play this, you absolutely need a lighting or flashlight mod. Experienced players will enjoy this nightmare a lot.

Pros:

Perfect atmosphere and layout
Right amount of supplies
Abundant throwables
Awesome finale
Tons of commons and specials
Well done events

Cons:

Never saw an adrenaline shot or the combat shotgun.
Bots don't prioritize getting on the train as much as they should. Only lost one, but he could've made it if he wanted.

Conclusion:

A great, challenging campaign. Almost perfect, but I never saw a single adrenaline or combat shotgun, and there's one botnav problem at the train event. Highly recommend.

Pros:

Good icy atmosphere
Dynamic layout with lots of supplies hidden places
Tower was cool

Cons:

Layout is overly dynamic, making the path unclear at times, especially in map 2
Because of the lack of clarity, I was able to skip the theater event, and skipped finding the path at one point by jumping from a window then watching the bots find the right way.
Finale spawns too many hordes between tanks, and since they mostly come from the tower, gets kind of dull.
Tank got stuck behind a vehicle in finale, when there was plenty of room to go around.
Map 4 event spawns tank with far too dense of a horde.
After deactivating map 4 alarm, I kept getting hordes with only 10-15 second breaks, almost as if the alarm didn't work.

Conclusion:

Not bad. Lots of potential to be a great campaign, but fell a little short. The huge landscapes and multiple paths are a nice idea, but aside from a few supply rewards, it was more of a con than a pro. Finale drags on, but when you finally get to run up the tower, it's pretty cool. Needs a little more polishing and direction so we don't accidentally skip events. But, after learning the general path, this will be more fun in subsequent playthroughs.

Pros:

Changing atmosphere
Events
Tons of tanks
Well supplied
The vents

Cons:

Laser sight in gun store inaccessible to bots

Conclusion:

An amazing, challenging campaign. Author was trigger happy with tanks, but it's doable. Scavenge finale doesn't overdo it on how many cans you need, and they're pretty localized.

Pros:

Nice layout
Changing atmospheres is gradual and makes sense.
Events are well done
Exploring generally rewards you with supplies- makes it less frustrating when you take a wrong path.

Cons:

A little undersupplied- no bile, Tier 2 weapons not in later saferooms, finale doesn't have many supplies.
No dialogue indicating where to go
Map 1 event doesn't explain what that button does- i'm not sure if I even needed to press it to continue.
Tram should start a horde

Conclusion:

Well done campaign, though not terribly challenging. Atmosphere is nice, and changes with each level, managing to tell a story despite a lack of dialogue. Got the original L4D feel down perfectly.

Pros:

Atmosphere is creepy as hell
Great haunting tricks
Very well supplied
Finale is great
Lots of dialogue
Events are well done
Good layout
Custom graffiti is funny.

Cons:

No defibs
Finale could use one more ammo pile.

Conclusion:

Great campaign. Finale can drain all your ammo, but there are plenty of throwables to deal with the hordes. The ghost and the custom graffiti are entertaining, as well.

Pros:

Atmosphere really felt like a Passing/Sacrifice fusion
Finale layout is great
Maps are well designed
Lots of dialogue
Great events
Finale is a little extended (got more than 2 tanks before rescue arrived)

Cons:

Limited variety- never saw a defib, hunting rifle, combat shotgun, or desert rifle (although that one's a plus), and the only AK and sniper were at the finale.
Event in Map 1 has such a dense horde, even a chainsaw couldn't get them off me.
Tank likes to spawn in 2nd map's running event, which already has a dense horde.
The area in which everyone must stand by the car to trigger escape is too small- 2 bots were 3 ft. from the car, and i had to push them until they were practically touching it before it triggered.

Conclusion:

Very well done. Most of the maps are sneaking through an atmosphere that could absolutely pass as an official campaign set before the Passing. The events really turn up the difficulty, especially if you're unlucky and get a tank in map 2. Finale is great- enemies from all sides and a little longer of a wait, even after starting all the generators.

Pros:

Good layout
Great campus design
Nice events
Maps not overly long despite only having 3
Lots of throwables

Cons:

The threat of crashing.
Coach didn't want to climb the ladder in the finale to get to the chopper.
Couldn't find ammo pile in finale, just a gun on another trailer.

Conclusion:

The gameplay of the campaign is pretty good, but I have to take off for the crashing. Putting a crash warning is not a good substitution for actually fixing the problem. There was nothing I saw in this campaign that I haven't seen in others that worked fine. Probably still would've given it a 4, but then the finale didn't have good enough access to guns and ammo.

Good Job

PROS
Changing atmospheres
Layouts in Maps 2-4 are really good
Events are tough, usually with very little cover
Tough witch placement

CONS
In Map 2, a bot got stuck climbing over the washing machines, and never teleported to me, even when I reached the saferoom.
Finale is a pretty bland layout and the recording never stops playing.
Dropping down all those levels is a pain in the ass, and bots can have trouble with it

CONCLUSION
Aside from the finale, the maps are very well done and fun to play through. Only issue was a bot getting stuck to close to the saferoom to teleport, so I had to exit and restart at Map 3 and lose all my supplies. Maps 2-4 in particular are long and challenging, which made the finale so much of a letdown. It's all very gray, and unless you want to be cheap and camp in the starting saferoom, there is even less cover. On top of that, you're subjected to the finale start recording throughout the whole time, and it's so loud, it was able to mask the tank music until he was on us.

Review Updated: 3/2016
Version: 11.0

Pros:

Events were crazy
Tons of supplies
Everything highlighted for puzzles, so I didn't have to wander around searching.
Atmosphere was great
Changing locations with saferoom vehicles.
Lots of direction
Original survivors cameo

Cons:

Pretty easy to get turned around
Saferooms don't start with guns and supplies.
Bots didn't run across the bridge in map 2 fast enough and got killed.
If you get too far ahead, mostly in map 2, an explosion might get you.
The bots just can't handle the revolving door. I'm pretty sure I just got lucky that eventually they moved and let me get through.
Finale starts off at "Rescue Has Arrived" horde + tanks and Virgil takes too long to get there.

Conclusion:

Fun campaign with crazy hard events. The finale is nearly impossible, but it's a good concept. The layout of it expects you to be very mobile, which would be fun to battle a lot of tanks in, running from supply pile to supply pile, but the waves of hordes in relatively confined streets and buildings make that difficult.

Pros:

Great prison atmosphere
Good events and gameplay
Tons of throwables
Well supplied

Cons:

Got laggy at some parts in finale
Supplies not diverse- never saw scoped rifles or adrenaline, and only 1 defib and bile jar.
Finale lacked ammo piles or new weapons to pick up- every bot ran out before the chopper.

Conclusion:

Lots of fun.

Pros:

Great design
Gameplay is fantastic
Lots of surprise events
Supplies at the end of hard events
You can activate the boat without bots having to jump on it.
Finale is fun.

Cons:

Huge hordes would spawn inside saferooms during "run to the saferoom" events.
Constant heavy rain in Map 5. As soon as one storm ends, another begins.

Conclusion:

Fun and hard campaign. Unlike many other campaigns, this one doesn't fudge the difficulty by dragging on maps forever while being stingy with supplies. Its difficulty is in the events, many of which catch you off guard and with no corner to back into. It made me so happy at the boat event when it looked like the bots wouldn't get inside that activating it forces them in. It's unfortunate how common it is to find campaigns where the author has not bothered to check whether or not the bots will function, especially in unique events like that. Thank you to the author for giving a shit about single players.

Pros:

Atmosphere is very creepy
Map 1 was nice
Guns hidden behind alarmed glass

Cons:

Supplies outside Map 2 starting saferoom
Bot wouldn't pick up a medkit outside Map 2 starting saferoom.
The switch in the store does not work- could not progress further than Map 2 no matter how many times I reloaded the map.
Path not clear in Map 2- ran around everywhere before finding the room with the (not working) switch.

Conclusion:

I don't know why the trap door switch in Map 2 works in the videos below, but not for me. It was setting up to be a good campaign with some bot issues, but it's broken.

Pros:

Interesting events
Turbulence in Map 1 moved items around.
If you wait long enough on the plane, the parachutes become visible

Cons:

The parachutes in Map 1 should be visible from the start.
Path not clear on Great Wall
Finale is tedious
Supplies not well placed in finale
Bots can't handle the ice well and slip off into the water and die.

Conclusion:

Some unique things in this campaign. Unfortunately, not all of them are good. Still worth a play.

Pros:

Epic finale
Great gameplay and scenery
Lots of throwables
Finale well supplied

Cons:

Map 2 collecting whatever those things were to open the temple didn't have enough ammo around.
Not enough defibs
Maps 1 and 2 need a little more direction.
Not clear that you have to jump over a pit of death under the temple.
Never saw any scoped rifles

Conclusion:

Awesome campaign. Running the great wall is an amazing finale. Could use some better direction, and I didn't see a defib until Map 3 after Ellis had died 2 towers back. Finale either needs a rescue closet up in a tower or a defib in Map 1 or 2.

Pros:

Nonlinear, without being too easy to get lost.
Good events
Finale layout being more vertical than horizontal really made it unique.

Cons:

Didn't play 007 theme music :(
Map 3 dragged on a little too long.
Bots would not pick up a weapon in the middle of the walkway in Map 3, and kept using pistols.
Map 3 had too little ammo.
No saferoom had Tier 2 weapons
I would imagine bases operated by Russian soldiers would have more AKs and less M16s.

Conclusion:

Pretty awesome (except Map 3, which was good, but not awesome). Does the movie and game justice. Really should play the 007 theme during events or when rescue arrives, though.

Pros:

Amazing gameplay
Level design and atmosphere were great
Well supplied
Despite Map 3 being a maze, the path was fairly clear
Good finale

Cons:

Sometimes confusing where to go after panic events (helicopter crash and crane in particular)
Never saw any bile jars.

Conclusion:

Very well done campaign. Levels don't "cheat" at the difficulty by dragging on and being poorly supplied. It gives you things like a tank + horde in one event, and a tank very near a witch very near the start of a panic event, and keeps the health packs separated from the ammo in the finale. Lots of fun for experienced players.

Pros:

Nothing special

Cons:

Bland atmosphere
Nearly constant hordes, even after events.
Tank with horde
Crashed after Map 1

Conclusion:

Somehow this managed to be dull and tedious despite constant hordes. Crashed after the first map, and I had 0 % interest in starting Map 2.

Pros:

Good layout

Cons:

Gas cans were annoying- felt like there was less of a pause between hordes than in other scavenge events.
Got a lot of doubled Hunters in finale.
A few times a gun would only have 3, and the bots would take them all.

Conclusion:

A not too bad little campaign. Nothing special, but you don't get lost and the bots played well.

Pros:

Good design
Twist in finale
Pentagram in graveyard
Lots of throwables
Events

Cons:

None

Conclusion:

Pretty fun. Finale is great.

Pros:

Every map incredibly well done
Finale is incredible
Tons of throwables in finale
Alternate paths
Great events
Epic custom music

Cons:

The power box that doesn't work needs instruction, or something in the sewer should be highlighted (I'm not sure how I got it to work- I found somewhere with sparks flying, ran up and hit X a bunch, but there was no indication I had done anything right until the power box worked)
In Map 4, just after the falling car event, bots like to get stuck in a loop of falling off a ledge, getting up, falling again. I had to just run until they teleported.
In Map 3, there was a switch to press, but it's easily bypassed. Not sure if optional event, or what.

Conclusion:

Amazing. The gameplay is one of the best I've ever played. The only things dragging it down are the lack of instruction on one part of Map 2, and the bots sudden stupidity on Map 4, but aside from those areas, this is perfection.

Pros:

Great level design- very dark and creepy.
Custom tasks (opening doors, draining water)
Supplies changed with the terrain (fallen survivors in the woods, hazmat guys with bile in the lab)
Lots of dialogue.

Cons:

Sometimes the lab got confusing
In the tunnel in Map 2, you can fall down a ledge and die, without catching the ledge to be helped up.
Bots didn't use ammo pile in finale always.
Not much variety on weapon choices.

Conclusion:

Epic

Pros:

Good layout and design
Lots of pills
Train ride in Map 3 beginning

Cons:

No ammo or health in saferooms
Maps a little too short
Gameplay was a little bland.
Map 2 has an invisible thing fall on you when you're about to climb a ladder. No explosion, nothing, just a jet sound, then got downed.
Low variety of guns

Conclusion:

Short and unremarkable. It's not bad, but with annoyances like an invisible attack and unsupplied saferooms, and relatively unexciting gameplay overall, I can't rate it more than "acceptable". It's something to do if you want to play l4d2, but only have 20 minutes to spare.

Pros:

More zombies

Cons:

Soldiers are practically invincible- the first one is hidden by the headlights, so you can't even see where to shoot. I emptied a whole M16 mag into the general direction of that jeep but nothing hit him.
Nothing is really new- just increased quantity of the infected and bosses and added super bosses.

Conclusion:

The author mistook the shortness of this campaign for blandness, and doesn't know how to make a campaign difficult, yet balanced. After getting two tanks barely 30 seconds apart, I came across a pseudo- invincible soldier. Most of the "About" is wrong- got the same events twice (so there's no random events), and the dialogue was just spammed one liners that really wasn't funny.

Pros:

Lots of throwables.
Station in map 4 restored to original appearance
The event destroying the bridge flows better than the l4d2 version- didn't have horde spawning in the saferoom.
Removed the event where we must run across the bridge
Chopper instead of ACP.
New event opening the door.

Cons:

Should have kept original survivors.

Conclusion:

Fantastic. For the most part, it's just restoring some of the bad changes Valve made to the L4D2 Blood Harvest, but it has just enough tweaks in it to keep it from being too similar.

Pros:

Great maps
Enemy soldiers concept
Looting corpses
Making molotovs concept
Cutscenes

Cons:

Enemy soldiers are way too good. If they get the drop on you, they can take you down almost before you even know they're there.
Didn't seem like the soldiers and the infected tried to kill each other. Doesn't make sense that they ignore each other, especially since the end cutscene shows infected fighting with them.
Pushing and welding the plow is a little annoying, especially with bots.
The rescue door opens way too long after the "rescue is here" music/onslaught starts.
Cars for molotovs are way too far from the cola- makes it tedious to do this.
Occasionally a bot will stop walking.

Conclusion:

Really good, but really hard. The soldiers really up the difficulty on Map 2, and the finale is crazy hard. Lots of extra stuff thrown in the maps, while still maintaining a l4d2 feel for the most part. I only wish that the soldiers and infected would also fight each other- it would really help deal with the soldiers and makes more sense. Still, great campaign for experienced players.

Pros:

Great atmosphere
Good layout
Very well supplied
Lots of dialogue
Good events

Cons:

None

Conclusion:

Awesome!

Pros:

Atmosphere was nice

Cons:

Bots didn't want to pick up health
Map 3 started with no medkits in saferoom
Turning off the switch takes way too long
The path is rarely clear, and at map 3, it gets even worse in the swamp town ruins.

Conclusion:

Terrible. Bots were almost broken enough to delete this after map 1. I suffered through up until map 3, then decided I was sick of not knowing where to go and bots not picking up health.

Pros:

Dark, obviously
A little more stingy with supplies than the real Parish.

Cons:

Barely noticed any of the smaller changes- it's 99% the same.

Conclusion:

It's the same Parish, but dark. Good reskin, though. I personally won't keep it, cause I don't care about time of day that much, but if you absolutely love night maps and hate day maps, then this is the reskin for you.

Pros:

Very well designed
Good layout
Well supplied
Well done events
Survivor dialogue

Cons:

Hordes spawned too frequently, expecially in Map 2, where at times it was difficult to cover any ground.
A few places the way to go becomes unclear
Hunters (and once, a jockey) would double spawn in some maps.

Conclusion:

Tons and tons of zombies in this one. Maps are very well done and laid out. Not a fan of scavenge finales (cause bots don't help), but this one was well done. The frequent hordes would normally be tedious, but there are plenty of ammo dumps and throwables to deal with them.

Pros:

The disasters are a nice way to divert the path instead of having invisible walls that don't make sense.
L4D cameos

Cons:

Needs much better direction
Too much backtracking.
Have to search for key. Should have a "puzzle" tag.

Conclusion:

When everything was highlighted during the first events, it wasn't bad. The backtracking and unclear path got tedious real quick, and having to search for a key was the final straw. It works in RPGs, which are made to take up all of your time, but not l4d2, where wasting time means more hordes. Slap a Puzzle tag on this one so those that want maps that feel like l4d2 won't waste our time.

Pros:

Nice level design 
Good gameplay up until the finale
Maps well supplied

Cons:

Map 2 dragged on too long
Bots would not pick up medkits in saferooms, and would not heal themselves at the start of a map.
Finale is bugged: first playthrough I was exploring, jumped in the hole, and then the bots could not get out. After getting tank- punched out of the helicopter, I had to restart when they wouldn't help me up. The second playthrough, there was no ammo pile, so I had to ditch an AK for the garbage desert rifle, and the sound didn't play for either tank. After the helicopter came, all bots first climbed down the ladder, then finally realized to go back up it.

Conclusion:

Was going to rate higher until the finale happened. It's still not a bad map- there are enough supplies outside of the saferoom to deal with the bot glitches. Finale is fun, as long as you don't bring bots in the hole and don't expect tank music to warn you of inbound tank.

Pros:

Maps have a short, mini- finale dash to the saferoom.
None of the running crescendos were long and tedious perma- horde events.
Design and layout are great.
Finale area is very nice.
Frequent hordes, but with enough time between them to cover some ground.

Cons:

First map has low FPS almost constantly. It's almost bad enough to make it unplayable.
Map 2 felt at least twice as long as others.

Conclusion:

Absolutely fantastic. The map finales are perfectly done- yes, they're "run through the horde" events, but they're not long enough to get you tired of the perma- horde. Finale was great- it has enough walls to keep the horde from fully surrounding you, but doesn't give it too many choke points. It made it very fun to run around the middle area instead of just camping. Would be a 5 star campaign if the first map didn't lag incessantly.

Pros:

Winter theme is nice

Cons:

Infected tear a hole in Map 1, so you can bypass the garage button.
Radio in Map 1 must be there as a trap- I can think of no other reason the author would not have blocked passage until event was triggered.
The train finale is so slow moving, you can run to the finale and barely fight anything.
Supplies often put outside of saferooms, typically don't have 4 medkits, and don't always have ammo.
Beginning of Map 3 saferoom had one zombie in it.

Conclusion:

It's playable, but the first and last maps just drag it down. It feels like the author didn't feel like even testing it- the exploitable issues in Maps 1 and 4 are so obvious that a single playthrough would have exposed them, unless the testers blindly followed instructions or decided to camp on the train (which I might have done if there were any supplies or ammo on it). I'm sure the gameplay is better if the events are triggered and you stay on the train, but not bothering to make those impossible just shows the lack of effort that went into beta testing it. I have to think the high reviews are the author under another name, or friends of the author.

Pros:

Nice atmosphere
Good gameplay outside of the finale
Very open
Pretty frequent hordes
Lots of alarmed cars
Custom song was pretty good

Cons:

Lots of the open areas were just as lit up as the right way to go, making it confusing when suddenly I was at a dead end.
Definitely needs more arrows for direction.
Enemies got stuck in places. This was kinda funny when I was saw 10 zombies spawn halfway inside a car's trunk, but it happened at the bar and I triggered a tank that then couldn't get through the door blocked by the jukebox and I could just wait for it to die.
Bots didn't grab Tier 2 weapons until the Map 5 saferoom.
Finale was kind of a dud- way too easy to camp on top of the overpass, right where rescue comes.

Conclusion:

A decent, easy campaign. Even getting thrown off by the misleading navigation, it takes less than an hour, and it's supplied well.

Pros:

Well designed campaign
Good finale layout
Gameplay was entertaining
Well supplied
Survivor dialogue

Cons:

Map 4 dragged on too long
Sometimes directional arrows pointed in the wrong direction, making navigation confusing.

Conclusion:

A long trek through a nice city atmosphere.

Pros:

Good gameplay and atmosphere.
Atypical events.

Cons:

In maps 1 and 2, a couple specials just stood there and let themselves get killed.
Volume on custom voice too low.

Conclusion:

Great campaign. I wish I could hear the narration, but the other game sounds overwhelm it.

Pros:

Sometimes the gameplay wasn't boring.

Cons:

Map 1 can be confusing to navigate.
Setting health and ammo right outside the alarmed door in map 1 makes bots trigger the event.
Finale makes no sense, and you can camp in the original saferoom with an unbreakable door.
Overall boring.

Conclusion:

I don't blame the author for ditching this project. It's boring, lacks any sort of plot, even for l4d2 standards (call your mom to tell her you're late for dinner is the dumbest rescue I've ever seen), and you get to play the whole thing with weird electronic rock (i guess that's what it is?) in the background.

Pros:

Nice layout and gameplay
Finale was great

Cons:

Until the finale, I didn't see very many throwables.
In the finale, Coach didn't want to pick up a gun during the rush to the bunker.
In map 2, the hordes spawned a little too frequently.

Conclusion:

This was great. It can get trigger happy with horde spawning, but it's really cool. Maps don't have a lot of supplies, but there are plenty of weapon spawns, and the finale stops being stingy with throwables.

Pros:

Maps are detailed
Challenging events
Overall good layout
Multiple routes

Cons:

Early maps not supplied well enough for their length.
Far too few ammo dumps.
Bots wouldn't always run up to ammo dumps and kept using pistols.
Saferoom at Map 4 start has no ammo pile.
Beginning maps are far too long.
Some places need more arrows, particularly at the compound in Map 2.

Conclusion:

A difficult campaign. If you can get through the first 3 maps, the hard part's over. It definitely needs more ammo, and a few more arrows in key places. I want give it a 3.5, because I thought it was still better than "ok", but it is definitely not worth a 4.

Pros:

The music at the beginning

Cons:

Very tedious to navigate. Hardly ever any room to move, and half the cars are alarm cars.
Few directional arrows and no dialogue to help with navigation.
Poorly supplied with weapons. I only saw 1 shotgun and no scoped rifles throughout the first 2 maps.
Poorly supplied with throwables
Gauntlet in 2nd map doesn't tell you to shut off the alarm until after you've realized it's a perma- horde and run all the way to the alarm.
Game crashed after map 2

Conclusion:

Did not enjoy. First 2 maps were so frustrating and tedious, that after my game crashed, I didn't bother doing the finale.

Pros:

Minecraft
Great nav

Cons:

Some items look too different
6th map doesn't seem to have a purpose

Conclusion:

Really enjoyed. I would have left a lot of the item/weapon textures as optional, but that's it.

Pros:

Excluding the finale, maps are well done
Events are fun
Supplied well

Cons:

It likes to crash in map 3 a lot
Sometimes not clear where to go
Annoying scavenge finale. As spread apart as the groups of gas cans are, there is no need to have to get so many.

Conclusion:

Maps are fun to run through, but with so much potential to crash and such a tedious finale, it's just OK overall. Still worth playing, though.

Pros:

Exactly how I picture a run- down industrial area.
Multiple paths and open areas, but still easy to navigate.
Event at the fake saferoom and with the violent survivor.
Good layout in the finale.
Custom weapons and music
Intro and finale cutscene were cool

Cons:

Lacking in supplies. Never saw an AK or defib, few throwables, and fewer shots.

Conclusion:

Awesome, must play campaign. Gave me a Blood Harvest on steroids feel. It's not the most supplied, but what few throwables are around are well placed near events.

Pros:

Great setting and design
Writing telling you what to do
Gameplay was great- lots of events.
Running events gave occasional throwables to get some breathing room.
Mission objectives
Well supplied

Cons:

Just before I overloaded the pipes, Coach got glitchy and wouldn't move. When he teleported, he would beeline in one direction until he hit a wall. He kept this up until the event started.
Ellis had trouble climbing the 50 ladders in the finale and would get stuck at the bottom of a couple. (This was probably l4d2 being l4d2, but I'll have to replay to see if it's all the time)
Occasional lag if a lot of things were happening at once.

Conclusion:

Epic. The cons happened infrequently and didn't mess with the gameplay much. Mission objectives made it flow a lot better- made it make more sense why events were happening.

Pros:

L4D2 cameos
TF2 cameo
Got to watch Coach die
Didn't see Nick die
Atmosphere and design are good
Gameplay is great, though hard
All the witches in Map 1
Bots actually played well.

Cons:

Didn't see Rochelle die (major con- I loathe her)
On first try, the crane didn't take us all the way. Had to suicide and try again.
Unorthodox paths often with inadequate direction cues.
Weapons and health outside of saferooms in first few maps.
When it rained in the zoo, something would push me until the rain subsided.
Specials would repeat frequently.
Finale needs bile or pipes- something to get the occasional reprieve.

Conclusion:

A rough campaign to get through. For the first few maps, you start out in the open, so while everyone's healing up, the horde and 5 specials are already on your ass. Direction is usually adequate, but you have to realize that when the path disappears, there's something you can walk on or climb that doesn't look like you should be able to. However, experienced enough players will enjoy.

Pros:

awesome design- run down and creepy, especially in later maps
change of scenery shows us as much of the country as possible.
lots of ammo and supplies

Cons:

way to go sometimes not obvious
bots didn't want to get inside map 2 saferoom, or the cable car the first time. once on map 4, they watched a smoker get me and let me die.
scavenge finale.
some areas lagged

Conclusion:

This is a must play for anyone. Though it's long, there are enough supplies laying around to keep you going. I'm not much of a fan of scavenging finales, but this is one of the better ones. Bots in some places are almost too stupid for it to be playable, but they still function well enough that it's a minor annoyance.

Pros:

creepy
level design was great

Cons:

poor item placement- putting the 4 medkits right in front of the map 2 saferoom makes the bots skip them.
in map 2, bots just stopped walking. had to move on in the map to make them teleport.
unstocked saferooms
too limited weapons
crashes at the end of the level every time.

Conclusion:

I would not have called this map listed as Complete. I got sick of having to reload steam each time I finished a chapter, so I didn't finish it, but at least the first 2 maps would be enjoyable if some finishing touches were added.

Pros:

Liked the finale
Mounted gun in finale actually useful.
Good atmosphere
Good events, and none spawned perma-hordes while I had to run.

Cons:

Horrendous navigation. Not a single arrow pointing the way.
Map 4- the epitome of the terrible navigation. If the guys in the video for this map have to take 20 minutes to find a ladder over a fence, that should be an indication that the path is not well defined.
Bots wouldn't grab anything in first map, and rarely grabbed pills outside of saferoom.
Bots would sometimes get stuck places until they teleported to me.
Tons of debris getting in the way, making maneuvering tedious.
Tanks take a long time to find you in the first part of the finale, if they find you at all.
Finale didn't have ammo pile. Didn't wanna ditch an AK for an M16, but didn't have a choice.

Conclusion:

A potentially great campaign that's dragged down primarily by infuriating navigation. Sure, it's trying to get the HL2 feel, but the author can't forget that this is still L4D2, and when you get more enemies spawned the more time you take, it is not fun to run around trying to find where to go, which seems to be the only purpose of map 4. If you know where that damn ladder is (found it only by watching the video below), the map can be done in under 5 minutes. Despite the frustration, though, it is still worth a playthrough, and subsequent playthroughs will probably be more enjoyable as long as I remember where to go.

Pros:

First level with pistols and melee only- rewarding when you get to the gun store.
good design
tons of throwables
harder version of "Get the Cola"
bots recognized everything on the map.

Cons:

Some places need more directional arrows or verbal cues.
When rescue arrives, it needs to be a more specific about where to go.
When finding the cola, the on- screen arrow kept pointing me to a pilar. The indicator should be on the cola itself.

Conclusion:

A good campaign. Deceptively easy at first, especially giving you a gun store as the map 2 starting saferoom, but it makes up for it with dense hordes when you run to a saferoom or have to fetch the cola. Most of the time, direction is good, but at some points it becomes inadequate.

Pros:

Enough supplies (outside of saferooms)
Lots of witches
Finale is pretty good

Cons:

When there's a long ladder down in one map, the bots like to fall to their death. I revived Francis with a defib, but instead of grabbing his gun and health, he ran to the saferoom nearby, ignoring his Tier 2 weapon and medkit. This would be tolerable, if the saferooms were stocked. He started the next level with just a pistol, and then wouldn't pick up a medkit near the teleporter.
No indication to go into teleporter, or even to flip the switch- only found it by running up to everything and hitting X.
Final door opens outward and reacts slow. Seems like a small deal until you get trapped behind it because you opened it while running, and there's a tank and horde on your ass.

Conclusion:

It's ok. The overall blandness of the gameplay makes the cons barely worth dealing with.

Pros:

prison design was cool
creepy atmosphere
horde at start
that flight of stairs with 3 witches
lots of pipebombs
nonlinear, but doesn't let you get too far off path before dead ending, so there's not much backtracking

Cons:

Lots of bot problems:
Louis got stuck in map 1, stood there until eventually he warped, then he played fine.
They didn't like to find pills and Tier 2 weapons, but would find medkits.
At the map 3 finale, first Zoey and Louis grabbed M16s, but then during the fighting, instead of grabbing ammo, they picked up Tier 1 guns, got ammo for them, and kept them until they found a SCAR by the witch stairs next map. Francis kept his M16, but when he ran out, would not grab ammo and switched to pistol. Fortunately, he got ammo in the map 4 starting saferoom.

Conclusion:

Bots play at minimum intelligence required for the map to be worth playing on single player. It's creepy and full of witches, and you get to have a "finale" in the middle of the campaign. My rating is for the single player experience, but if you play with even 1 more person, I'm sure this would be a 4 or 5 star campaign.

Pros:

Great gameplay
Survivor dialogue
Great events
Vocal cues when the path isn't obvious.

Cons:

Certain addons make the movie theater event impossible
Occasionally lagged when a lot was going on
Only saw one witch the whole time
The area on fire above the police station is difficult to see, and with all the debris, kinda hard to move through.

Conclusion:

Definitely worth the download. My only complaint, and it's very specific, is that in the movie theater event, because you use (X) to chop the cable instead of normal attack, if you have a mod that has moved melee weapons out of the pistol slot, it can't chop the cable. However, it's easy to alter those mods to put melee back into slot 2, and I guess shame on me for using a "carry everything" mod, so still gave it perfect score.

Pros:

Everything ran smooth
Nice design
Potentially an awesome campaign

Cons:

Bots wouldn't pick up 2nd pistol or medkits.
If surrounded, they would almost seem to just give up. They shot slow, reacted slow, and completely ignored infected behind them.

Conclusion:

Impossible to play in single player. Really bothers me that quite a few designers release a "final" version with bots playing so terribly. I can only assume that they're either too lazy to run tests with both bots and live players, or worse, didn't care enough about the bug to fix it.

Pros:

Maps have distinct atmospheres, but they transition believably.
Plenty of weapons/ ammo

Cons:

Hordes are too frequent- got them so often, I didn't even realize the end of map 2 is an onslaught until I pulled up the console.
Instructions need to be more specific- tell us to run to the saferoom in map 2 and tell us we need to hop in the back of the truck.

Conclusion:

Of all of these Chapters I've tried, this has been the only one worth playing. It's the only one I've made it to the end of without getting bored or it being too buggy to complete. It's good enough, but is by no means anything special.

Pros:

Great atmosphere
Lots of throwables
Frequent ammo piles
One of the better running finales.

Cons:

Wtf flying car?
A couple places hard to find the path
Map 2 got a little bit tedious

Conclusion:

Solid campaign- the cons are pretty minor.

Pros:

Lots of small events keep things from getting dull in the long maps.
Event in map 2 is awesome
Great design
Surprise events
Great finale
Big, but still easy to navigate
Enough supplies
The areas with lots of witches

Cons:

Got really low FPS in some events, particularly on Map 2.
A few places specials would get stuck, or sometimes hide in plain sight (once in map 1 or 2, a boomer just stood in the street doing nothing).
Jockey started event in map 1.

Conclusion:

This campaign is hard. It seemed like once I found Tier 2 weapons in a saferoom, the maps got twice as long and twice as difficult. I'm not sure if some of the cons were the fault of my connection or l4d2 being l4d2, but regardless, this is a fantastic campaign.

Pros:

Lots of ammo/ supplies
Finale was fun
Frequent smaller events- lots better than a prolonged horde.
Nice, creepy atmosphere

Cons:

Not much variety- only saw 1 shot, no bile or defib. Only Tier 2 weapons available were AK and combat shot- no scoped rifles or other assault rifles.
After giving us so many throwables and supplies, the finale room only had 2 medkits and ammo.

Conclusion:

First 2 maps are pretty average, but the abundance of throwables and ammo gives them the satisfying feeling of being on a warpath instead of running for your life. Finale picks up the pace and made the difference between a 3 and 4 star campaign.

Pros:

Great job

Cons:

could use a couple more tier 2 weapon and supply placements.

Conclusion:

Awesome

Pros:

Great run down city
Easy enough to follow the path
Optional things (lights, armory)
Breakable wall in the office kept it from being too easy of a camping spot.

Cons:

Almost too dark in some places- I was really glad I had a brighter flashlight mod.
Tanks in the finale were taking a long time to find us (at the ammo pile)
Not many supplies

Conclusion:

Really enjoyed. I didn't get Tier 2 weapons for a long time, and supplies are low, so it's not an easy one, but it's a fun struggle through.

Pros:

gameplay was alright

Cons:

missing textures: pink and black sky, but i don't see where to download a texture .vpk.
lots of Specials would hide in plain sight like they thought they were behind something.

Conclusion:

Needs work

Pros:

Better than the original

Cons:

None

Conclusion:

Awesome remake of one of the less fun originals- really puts it on par with the better ones.

Pros:

Good campaign
Supplies in the right places

Cons:

Bots played a little glitchy- twice, one or more bots just stopped playing and let themselves get attacked by CI. They didn't like to navigate some of the manholes or stores with lots of furniture, and they had a little trouble getting on the train.

Conclusion:

Really fun. Levels are pretty long, some events are pretty hard, but you get plenty of supplies to recover with if you survive them.

Pros:

Lots of fun

Cons:

That damn bell rings the whole time- gets annoying

Conclusion:

All the fun of a finale without fighting through a map.

Pros:

good gameplay

Cons:

nothing much

Conclusion:

a fun little campaign.

Pros:

Great design
Fun finale

Cons:

Too many tight hallways restricting movement.

Conclusion:

Good campaign. Kind of cramped for most of it, but still fun.

Pros:

lol none

Cons:

most places dark- couldn't even tell if my flashlight was on or not.
Perma hordes are not fun.
Cramped hallways get really tedious and boring.

Conclusion:

Absolutely terrible. This shouldn't be advertised as a campaign- it's a series of tedious training events with a bland, Tron setting. Do not waste your time with this garbage.

Pros:

Solid campaign
Liked the finale

Cons:

A couple places (most notably the first map), the bots weren't good at finding pills, but that's not a big deal.

Conclusion:

A pretty fun campaign.

Pros:

Lots of supplies
Great map design

Cons:

Color changes in finale are kind of annoying.

Conclusion:

A great campaign. Finale is wierd, but still fun.

Pros:

Was like playing a sequel to Blood Harvest- really captured the essence of a l4d campaign.
Path not hard to follow!

Cons:

nothing

Conclusion:

Fantastic campaign. This has been one of very few addon campaigns that never made me stop and wonder where the hell I'm supposed to go, and because of that, it feels like it belongs in the original game.

Pros:

nothing spectacular

Cons:

Poor instructions leave you unsure how to navigate past a trap or where to go.

Conclusion:

Could have been great. Didn't happen. Plenty of things more fun than this.

Pros:

Challenging
Lots of tanks and witches

Cons:

Frequently unclear where to go.

A few too many events- wouldn't be a problem except for the problem above.

Conclusion:

I can't stand campaigns that leave you running around for 10 minutes just trying to figure out why you were directed into a dead end. The campaign is already challenging and fun (when not lost); there are plenty of events and multiple tanks and witches per map. With better direction, this campaign would be great.

Very Well Done

PROS
Incredible design
Events well placed
Challenging

CONS
In the parking garage event, bots got confused and I had to leave them.
The way isn't always clearly marked.
Health not at beginning, then springs an event on you when you find them at the broken bridge.

CONCLUSION
Really fun to play, but in every map the path will become unclear at some point. However, the biggest issue is during the parking garage- bots decide to not follow you when you drop through the hole, but they did eventually find their way to me by the gas station. But since they play fantastically otherwise (finding ammo, health, etc.) it's not too hard to deal with.

Review Updated: 3/2016 Version 14

Pros:

creepy maps
infinite hoard finale isn't so long, so it doesn't get annoying
interesting variations on the "shut off alarm to stop horde" event
those tanks.

Cons:

almost too long
it got annoying after a while to follow a light only to find it's a couple of pills and not the way to go.

Conclusion:

Great map! Hardest one I've ever played, since half of the UK apparently became tanks, but should be in everyone's Top 5.

Pros:

Cons:

Crashes all the time.

Conclusion:

Needs lots of work, but there's potential.