Pros:

- As a fan of post-apocalyptic design, I've got to say that the areas in the campaign are some of the best I've seen: they look run-down, gritty, and real, almost as if they were abandoned well before the zombies took up residence. (Much like a lot of industrial areas in backwoods parts of the US.)

- The overall layout of levels is very organized and clean: you can actually frequently pick out the various alternate paths available and decide which one to take.

-- Speaking of alternate paths, the middle three levels are some of the most fantastically open I've played in the game. I've always like it when the game's able to open up and breathe a little bit.

-- Supply placement is ace: I spent enough time on low health to generate a lot of tension, but there were always just enough pills and medkits to prevent a team wipe.

-- Clever placement of special weapons. 

-- Lighting, fog, and CC are all very reminiscent of Blood Harvest-- except I think this game's wooded areas are a lot more interesting.

-- Two very clever events. (Voice acting on the first one in question is quite nice.)

-- The structure of the finale arena is really great-- there are tons of good spots to hold out, but they're all vulnerable enough to require you to keep moving.

Cons:

I can't really think of any-- it's clear that a lot of attention has been paid to ironing out the various bugs and kinks in the campaign.

Conclusion:

Overall this is a really, really solid campaign. One of the few I'd gladly take over what Valve selected to add to the game.

Pros:

-- Levels are just the right blend of realism and fantasy: they're detailed, but also open and full of great angles to hold, corridors to run through guns blazing, and arenas for panic events and tanks.

-- Tons of alternate, non-randomized paths.

-- Plenty of locations where verticality plays a major role, esp. during panic events.

-- A couple of nice twists on oft-used events like cranes and slowly-rising doors.

-- Finale is quite intense (four randomly spawned tanks!), but it also presents quite a few opportunities to position yourself so well that you feel untouchable. There's some excellent sniping spots near the bridge.

Cons:

-- It's perhaps possible to make initial survival portion of the finale too easy by camping out in the right spot. I think this is balanced out by other factors, though.

Conclusion:

A really fun campaign that's given me several hours of enjoyment, and is added to my list of campaigns to play with friends when I can rope them into it. I can see why it's remained popular.

Pros:

-- Absolutely incredible atmosphere on all of the maps: I always liked the official campaigns where L4D played horror tropes straight, and this is another.

-- Aside from their atmosphere, the maps are beautifully made. The only one where the game really shows its age is map 4-- Source and curved geometry, rabble rabble etc --other than that, it almost feels like a new game.

-- Events are genuinely creative, and can be pretty disturbing . . . 

-- It was actually pretty nice to relive my noob memories of getting lost in the subways while traipsing about map 4.

Cons:

-- Bots WILL be incapped during the finale, as they'll attempt to grab medkits at the ambulance that's placed right before the second barrier and attempt/fail to heal until they've been taken down.

-- The poor girl and baby. D:

Conclusion:

I'm a bit conflicted over the map due to the finale, but it's absolutely excellent even during that . . . just remember that since it's the apocalypse, you should bring friends.

Poor kid. :(

Pros:

-- The choice of environments is lovely-- other than I Hate Mountains, I don't think that there are any campaigns set in the Pacific Northwest. I almost expected to see enemies from Alan Wake mixed in with the common infected.

-- Custom intro is artsy in the best ways, and makes use of some wonderful cut dialog.

-- One of the few L4D2 campaigns that I was able to play twice and get a totally different experience both times: seriously, the amount of randomization is incredible. And it's *good.*

-- Certain locations make the game look years newer simply due to how well they're lit.

-- Pretty hard campaign overall.

-- Some events (including the finale) cannot be done without another player.

Cons:

-- Can be pretty hard to tell where you're supposed to go in the first map.

-- I like the fact that the campaign is hard, but the final event on map two (running to the saferoom through a lumberyard) is one of the few events I'd actually call "too hard"-- if some medical supplies were added to the "fake" saferoom at roughly the halfway mark, it'd be a lot less frustrating.

-- Some events (including the finale) cannot be done without another player.

Conclusion:

If you're a pretty experienced player of this game and can rope a friend into playing with you, I can see this being one of the most rewarding campaigns out there: it's hard enough to keep you playing in an involved and careful matter for basically the whole campaign, has events that require actual teamwork, and the backdrops to the action are visually excellent.

If not, well, I think you should still give it a shot-- but be warned that you won't be able to finish it.

Pros:

-- To start, the attention to detail in the levels: they're complex in terms of their layout and have a ton of alternate pathing, but still have a lot of small details.

-- Quickly learned that I wasn't going to miss out on "the cool way" when choosing a path. They're all cool, and supplies are placed in a way that won't punish you for taking a bad turn.

-- Very good sense of pacing. Spawns seems a little slower than the default campaigns (or maybe the levels are just more open), which balances out the extreme length of the maps.

-- Speaking of long maps-- well, I guess that's self-explanatory. My first playthough was ~100 minutes, with no backtracking. (part of that involved listening to the radio.)

-- Along those lines, the soundtrack is great: I'm not even from Duluth or an avid indie-band listener and loved it.

-- Events tend to test your perception and listening (I'm looking at the first one in particular) rather than w+m1 skill.

-- I actually really enjoyed the number of tanks. Normally I'd hate to kill 9 (I counted) tanks, but over the length of this campaign it wasn't a problem.

-- Hordes tend to spawn from behind you rather than in front of you . . . much less frustrating, still difficult.

-- Extremely "readable" levels that aren't designed to make you get lost. Enjoyed being able to guess the right direction.

-- Radio drama went from intruiging to outright hilarious by the end. Was hard to hear at times.

Cons:

-- Bots. Oh goodness gravy. They're actually perfectly functional 95% of the time, but when they aren't . . .

-- First off, they seem to have lost their magic medkit sniffing ability, and then some-- frequently the "last bot in line" just wouldn't get close enough to a medkit to detect it, They left behind kits on the starting crane, CEDA outpost, museum, and military base multiple times-- I even tested by stopping the director and standing around waiting . . . nothing.

-- Bots can get stuck on the stairs at Fitzgers in several places, as well as getting stuck on the truck you climb over to reach the finale. They also can't get their heads around that ladder.

-- The bridge never actually went up-- is the ending supposed to be the same (except for whether or not it counts as a pass or fail) either way?

-- Cinematics are kind of janky, but that's a Source thing.

Conclusion:

There's enough good in this campaign that I can't help but rate it high. The bugs are there, but they won't impede your access to the good stuff.

Pros:

-- Pays homage to classic  media, much in the same ways L4D does.

-- Easter eggs and other fun stuff everywhere. Took a lot of work for the Director to wipe the smile off my face while I was playing.

-- Well-lit and detailed in most areas.

-- Custom music!

Cons:

-- Some areas (like the Moria finale) will chow down on absolutely anybody's FPS.

-- Bots just can't cope with some of the areas.

Conclusion:

Fun, fun, fun campaign. Don't know why I didn't play it sooner.

Pros:

-- Actually not any harder than the original campaign. The two spots that I had the most trouble with-- the alarm door on map 2 and the train on map 3 -- are either replaced or placed in wider areas that turn down their difficulty. This more than makes up for some of the weirder spots.

-- Longer maps are a good thing in my opinion.

-- Tons of detail compared to the rather spartan original campaign. Some really gorgeous scenery (for L4D) in spots.

-- Effing 50 Cal ported from L4D2.

-- Map 1 isn't a joke anymore.

-- I never encountered the dreaded crate-mazes, and there are some pretty awesome branching paths in areas.

-- If you like to scavenge, you'll find plenty of supplies.

-- Bot nav is generally fine and dandy.

-- Level geometry is generally greatly improved, with far fewer lumpy tunnels and hills.

-- One of the few custom campaigns I've played that seems to have the exact same horde spawn rate as the defaults.

Cons:

-- Doesn't really feel like Blood Harvest or even anything rural. . .everything is a military-industrical-complex bunker of some type. 

-- Tons of aboveground subways and other things that just don't make sense.

-- Blue lighting everywhere.

-- BH's most distinct event is replaced with a more passe "hit the button and hold out" feature. (The train on map 3, that is.)

Conclusion:

I was really surprised by how solid this was. It doesn't really feel like Blood Harvest anymore, but I'm OK with that. Takes what I'd consider the most disappointing stock campaign by far and adds a lot of entertainment value.

Pros:

-- Levels are very well structured, with choke-points and good holdout spots aplenty.

-- Navigation isn't just a matter of w + m1, but levels were never obtuse or confusing.

-- Just enough spawned goodies to get by, no more or less.

-- Creative events.

-- You can climb the tower. :)

-- Great atmosphere on first and third maps.

-- Finale requires you to think about positioning rather than just camping the first spot everyone stands still in.

-- Hard, but didn't feel unfair out of a couple of places.

-- Map 2's second and/or third event . . . KA-BOOM!

Cons:

-- The bot nav. Oh lordy. They don't properly jump off the ledge to get to the map 2 saferoom, causing them to get stuck on it about 6 times out of ten. (I counted.) Francis and Bill decided to park their rears at the base of the lift during the map 3 crescendo, leading to Zoey's death. Then they decided to stand there until the event was full over, causing them to die while I (20 hp) waited in the safe room. Then in the finale they bumrushed the extraction point and got super-saiyaned off the platform by the tank.

-- I like the finale in general. It's dangerous, you have to hunt for supplies, you pretty much have to think about what angles you want to hold if you want to live-- and if you do, it's mostly a piece of cake, with very little you can't adapt to. Then the chopper arrives. I like the tank spawning on top of the platform-- it's a dangerous place, no logical reason to camp there -- but the full contingent of SI and giant mob of SI . . . those are a bit less fair.

Conclusion:

There are some things that I don't like about the map, but I had too much fun to rate it any lower than an 8. Probably won't be easy-peasy lemon-squeezy on any difficulty, but if you don't mind both thinking ahead and reacting quickly, I'd call it one of the best for L4D1.

Pros:

-- Starting area is right about charming . . . that doesn't mean too much on its own, but it's a good preview of coming attractions.

-- Tons of alternate pathing on a lot of maps. I accidentally went the right way a number of times, which is not an insult as far as I'm concerned.

-- Excellent survival finale.

-- Bot nav is high dependable.

-- Some very well-designed areas and creative events.

-- Survivors actually talk!

Cons:

-- FPS drops pretty hard in some areas.

-- A lot of the custom events don't have game instructor hints.

Conclusion:

Really good campaign, with some creative stuff going on. IMO it lacks the "wow" factor and detail of the very best campaigns, but it's quite solid.

Pros:

-- Maps are generally very well-designed, with areas that enable solid gameplay and smart spawns that I didn't think felt overwhelming.

-- Supplies are plentiful as long as you don't burn through ammo like a bot. I found the number of pipe bombs a little slim, but received plenty of fire in a bottle to compensate.

-- Outdoor areas are pretty attractive and seem to stand up well to Blood Harvest's (far too short) woods level.

-- "Rooftops" level has some fantastic verticality.

Cons:

-- Lots and lots of ugly texture stretching. There were times where I felt like I'd flown out into a 3D skybox or something. (Hammer strikes again?)

-- Same goes for the lighting on later maps. I'd be OK with this if it didn't (IMO) affect visibility negatively. (Hammer strikes *yet* again?)

-- There are some excruciatingly bland areas to go along with the good ones.

Conclusion:

One of the better campaigns I've run across for the first L4D. Like a lot of things made for the old game, it's got rough edges in plenty, but it's fun and worth a download. I'm glad it's still on the site after 5 years.

Pros:

-- Areas have a lot more detail and "life" than a lot of L4D1 campaigns. I especially liked being able to explore all of the houses and shops in the little town.

-- Maps are generally pretty open and spacious, with the exceptions being notably claustrophobic. 

-- Not extraordinarily difficult.

-- Bot nav is VERY good; I was able to forget that they were brainless artificial unintelligences by the end of the campaign.

-- Lighting is pretty minimal, but good.

-- Some imposingly large areas.

-- Great minigun (minifun :D) placement in the finale.

Cons:

-- Some of the larger areas look pretty wonky, due to Source having a tiny draw limit.

-- A couple of areas where my framerate tanked into the single digits.

-- Tooooons of places where tanks can smack you off the map in the finale.

-- Like a lot of L4D1 maps, you can see the lack of a proper SDK rearing its head in places. Occasionally I felt like I was playing a CS:Source map.

Conclusion:

Wish the author had stuck around a bit longer. This is definitely worth playing if you've got the old game.

Pros:

-- Awesome atmosphere on several areas, especially when you come out of the tunnels after turning the power back on.

-- Some events that actually PLAYED differently from others I've played before, in addition to having different triggers.

-- Well-realized interiors. I like how you can see several of the safe rooms before you can get into them.

-- Cool scripted events. 

Cons:

-- The holdout right BEFORE the finale is insanely difficult. Eventually I just started at the finale

-- Lots of large areas that really s t r e c h the capabilities of the game.

Conclusion:

Really didn't have any trouble with the campaign, aside from one stickly event and having to run in slideshow mode at times. Lots of neat areas.

Pros:

-- One of the most professional campaigns you'll find for L4D1. Custom models and textures, unique areas, even a cleverly edited new voice line for Francis.

-- Voice acting!

-- Great atmosphere.

-- Stable. Doesn't crash for me.

-- Blessed absence of confusing mazes and hackneyed puzzles.

Cons:

-- The high quality and level of detail of some areas makes some of the others seem drab by comparison. Uneven.

Conclusion:

Worth playing even if you've played the sequel.

Pros:

-- Stable, bug-free, doesn't double the game's system requirements.

-- Hard Rain's weather cycle = ATMOSPHERE

-- You can get lost, but

-- the campaign isn't ridiculously hard, so you aren't screwed if that happens.

-- Custom textures are used sparingly but wisely, and not spammed anywhere.

-- Lots of interesting little areas that tell stories.

-- Map 2 finale

-- No, seriously, the map 2 finale. The actual campaign finale is good as well-- it was quite manageable for a Death-Toll L4D2 style "run across the whole freaking map" gauntlet. Still, the map 2 finale.

-- Not stressful.

Cons:

-- Military industrial complexes feel like fallback fare in this game; this is admittedly one of the better-done ones though.

-- A bit bland to look at after the first map.

-- Bots parkour'ed down the elevator shaft rather than getting in. (They didn't die!)

Conclusion:

I wasn't necessarily floored by the end of the campaign, but unlike some where I was, I wanted to play it again immediately. Good stuff, probably suitable for map rotation.

Pros:

-- Stupendous atmosphere in the first map; you could take out L4D2's super-fun mechanics and swap in an actual horror game EASILY.

-- Said map is also really fun to kill zombies in. 

-- The cultural village in the second map is charming.

-- Randomized paths are a good thing when they make sense.

Cons:

-- Randomized paths don't always make sense or have any indication of how to select the right one; I had to find the right way to the saferoom by trial and error on both of my playthroughs. (-0.5)

-- Slipping effect in the finale is a cool idea, but it's so strong that the finale can take as long as the second map. (-0.5)

-- Gauntlet on the second map is a real slugfest. Giving the survivors a few seconds to prepare before it starts would make it dramatically more approachable. (-0.5)

-- A seven-part cola run is a bit much in my mind. (-1)

Conclusion:

Definitely a map with a lot of good ideas, and I can see why it won; the author made a lot of good stuff later too. But it's, well, it's not perfect. Best to know what you're getting into.

Pros:

-- Detailed, complex levels that toe the line between  hyper-linearity and confusing sandboxes quite well. I really appreciate the prominence of non-randomized alternate paths.

-- A ton of variety in the way of random events; I've had at least one even play out differently every time I've played the campaign, and none of them have been overly confusing.

-- Just enough environmental variety to avoid being boring, but not so much that the campaign feels like a hastily cobbled-together series of random maps.

-- Incredible, incredible visual detail. I seriously don't know how some areas don't cause out-of-RAM crashes.

-- Great balance between L4D2's "hyper-violent Mario Kart" and zombie-movie-tribute sides. There are spots that actually feel like they belong in a NEW classic zombie movie, and there are spots where the franchise's goofy mechanics really shine.

-- Maps are pretty well-optimized for their size and level of detail.

-- Superb lighting from both a visual and gameplay perspective: you can "follow the light" and always know where to go, but it never feels like lighting/fog was carelessly slapped into a scene as a condescension to people who might get lost.

-- Loads and loads of custom content, nearly (nearly) all of which blends seamlessly into the game.

-- Clever usage of some cut beta content as well. :3

-- BOT NAV IS GOOD. PRAISE THE BASED HAMMER.

Cons:

-- Could be pretty annoying if you don't like hard campaigns.

-- Might be pretty boring if you enjoy moving fast and never stopping.

-- Could get tedious if you think Dead Center is too long.

-- Conflicts with custom blood addons. 

-- Some areas are less well-done than others.

-- That truck driver. Hehe.

Conclusion:

I am almost certainly swayed by nostalgia in writing this review-- BTS was my first custom campaign, and the impression it left on me was strong enough that I can still remember details of my first playthrough to this day -- but I've revisited this campaign several times since then, and although I haven't gotten chills like I did the first time I walked into the School again, I've enjoyed it as much if not more each time. One of the few L4D2 campaigns where I really think the total is more than the sum of its parts, and one of the few pieces of custom content to actually raise my opinion of the game it was made for.

Oh, and it's a blast, if you don't care for the kind of pretentious blathering I'm so good at.

Pros:

-- Something a lot of people have been wanting since the release of "The Sacrifice" and/or since they got around to reading the comic.

-- A tougher, more distinctive look for Zoey.

-- Compatible with skins for the basic model. (Areyouawizard.jpg)

Cons:

-- I really can't think of any, unless you just don't like the design.

-- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet . . .

Conclusion:

Really really well done.

Pros:

-- Overall a good campaign with some nice details: custom  graffiti, use of the Parish's lovely CC, well-placed weapon/item drops, etc.

-- Clever usage of light sources to indicate pathing-- I wish more campaigns would do this, it makes the maps look and feel very professional.

Cons:

-- Extremely easy to make a single wrong turn in map2 gauntlet and become locked into a fail state.

-- Has the only problem that could ever make me call a campaign unplayable: the navmesh on the last three maps is basically broken. Zombies climb invisible ladders in midair, bullets get stopped by invisible walls in the middle of empty rooms, and there was one particularly bad spot where I was only able to advance through the only possible route by accident-- I have given up and was going to exit from the menu, when a clipped through me and somehow caused me to teleport to the other side of a room with an impassible (I think) floor.

Conclusion:

I hate to rate a campaign that could potentially be very fun and extremely playable so low, but 60% of it is essentially a wash. A shame, because there's a lot of very well-done mapping in it, and the author seems to have retired.

Pros:

-- This is a pretty cool gun, silliness of the name aside.

-- This is a pretty cool model, modeller's self-deprecation aside.

--  Animations don't clip at all all the way up to FOV 70, nor do they start looking stupid either above or below your recommended FOV.

-- The gun actually looks like some kind of polymer ingame, which is something that it seems Source must make difficult.

-- Animations are very athletic and attractively stylized, without getting into comedic territory or feeling out-of-place in L4D2.

-- Sounds are pretty fun and a nice break from sooper-dooper loudness.

-- You made helping hand and item grab animations! 

Cons:

Well, I have to put something here, I guess.

-- Envmap settings seem a wee bit strong at times, or maybe just a bit too blue. I dunno, that shader is weird and tricky to get right, from my personal experience.

-- Texture seem to not have mipmaps. :(

-- Camera shaking while shooting felt a bit overpowered at first, although I've come to like it after using the gun for a bit. (If nothing else it keeps me from firing it like the uzi and blowing through all of my bullets.)

Conclusion:

Cool beans.

Pros:

-- As before, an incredibly detailed recreation of a tough-as-nails historical weapon.

-- I began noticing the smoothing errors in the previous version after playing with it with a while, and this fixes them. Yay!

-- I like Arby26's animations a lot, but these are much smoother and less jittery-- and they remind me of another favorite game, Killing Floor.

-- HUD icons are nice.

Cons:

-- Very minor clipping of left-hand fingertips through the grip when loading shells.

Conclusion:

All in all, this is just excellent.

I deleted my previous comment because Steam was just being funny as it sometimes is.

Pros:

-- Much harder than the retail No Mercy. Took me back to my first time firing up the game and feeling like everything was dangerous.

-- Unpredictable tank spawns.

-- I like the dark, both in general and on this map.

-- Eerie. Lights aren't yellow-tinted.

-- More atmospheric clutter than in No Mercy.

-- Lacks one of my most hated panic events in the entire game.

Cons:

-- Unfinished both as a standalone map and recreation of the beta.

Conclusion:

I actually enjoyed a lot of the changes/reversions from vanilla in this; it won't replace No Mercy for me, but it's sticking around on my hard disk. I'd feel bad to rate it higher when other maps are just as enjoyable and more finished, but this is definitely worth a DL if you like the dark.

Pros:

-- Fabiana fits the Witch's overall concept  perfectly.
-- Model and textures are extremely detailed even if they aren't high-res.
-- Max Payne is pretty much always cool.

Cons:

-- Textures are a little low-res, but they're also much less blurry than the stock Witch's textures.

Conclusion:

Pretty awesome indeed; it was about time someone made a replacer not held back by the awful stock witch model.

Pros:

-- Super-looking gun. I really like everything I've had a change to use by Rifleman and Bull.

-- Actually looks like a hunting rifle. 

-- Nice reskin.

-- Sounds are extremely nice.

-- You appear to have fixed the glitched item grabs in Arby's hunting rifle animations, or had him fix them for you; I haven't seen another mod where they didn't stutter for a second before playing.

Cons:

-- Errm . . . the competition is pretty slim, when it comes to the hunting rifle, and I'm a poor judge anyway, so really I can't find any.

-- Well, I suppose some people don't like Arby's animations, so there's that.

Conclusion:

Nice to have a new-ish replacement model and texture for the hunting rifle.

Pros:

-- Fully animated.
-- Professional animations.
-- Current-gen models with baked normals are still something of a rarity in this game.
-- Nice textures with a lot of detail.

Cons:

-- Textures are a lot more blue on my PC than in the screenshots or videos, but I'm pretty sure that's just my monitor. (-0)

-- Only replaces the better of the two SMG's. (-0.1)

Conclusion:

A worthy representation of this scrappy little gun.

Pros:

-- Replaces a real eyesore.

-- Would look good and pretty appropriate even if the vanilla pipebomb wasn't awful.

Cons:

-- Uhhhh . . .

-- I guess there are some sounds that I think would have gone with with the mod, but I know why you opted to not include any.

Conclusion:

A simple mod, but it does what it does more or less as well as anything could.

Pros:

-- Basically the only current-gen model out there for the milsniper.
-- Really awesome model
-- Distinctive textures
-- Provided sounds are powerful but won't hurt your ears.
-- Animations are really smooth even though they were originally ported to the AK slot.

Cons:

-- I don't really care, but the lens reflection is upside down. Yawn.

-- Did you disable mipmaps?

Conclusion:

As far as I'm concerned, this is THE option for the military sniper.

Pros:

-- Punchy but smooth animations-- really love the dual reload.

-- GREAT model with HP baked normals.

-- Excellent textures.

-- Nice reflections/ shine on the metal parts; they're almost realistically reflective but don't glow in the dark.

Cons:

-- Took a while to find sounds that I though really matched up with the mod. (Well, I had to put something.)

-- Phong/envmap mask has some odd-looking damage -- but I grew to like it after a while.

Conclusion:

Probably my favorite of the pistol mods I've used to date.

Pros:

-- Classic CS gun
-- Looks pretty good for a CS:Source mod
-- Strifer's animations are great.
-- DOOM

Cons:

-- Nothing much, really. The original mod's a bit long in the tooth, but I wouldn't DL it if that was a problem for me.

Conclusion:

-- Are the animations the right frame-counts to work online? The shell loading looks a lot slower than vanilla. Don't really play L4D2 multiplayer much though, so I don't mind.

Pros:

-- Fairly realistically rendered suburban area with a lot of unique details. Most maps are urban or rural, so it's a nice change as far as settings go.

-- Glorious lighting and fogging in the outdoor portions.

-- Several enjoyable spots to hold out against the horde in, although one of them was (sadly) completely optional. Won't say much more.

-- Nice underground section that reminded me a bit of HL2.

Cons:

-- Tank spawned about a minute into the map, resulting in a very easy fight w/o any of the suspense involved with the big guy.

-- No witches on the map.

-- Starts to feel like the WIP it is towards the end. 

Conclusion:

Looks like this map is discontinued, but I though I'd share my inarticulate thoughts for anybody who happened to venture by. It's really quite good.

Pros:

-- Much smoother than the original SCAR animation

-- Animates more of the model than other SCAR reanims I've used

-- Not flashy

-- Works with skins

Cons:

-- Reload finishes in a matter that is extremely similar to Arby's (your, I guess) M16 reload.

Conclusion:

All in all a very good animation-- if I didn't know L4D2 and its animation quality, I wouldn't bat an eyelash if somebody told me it was part of the game.

Pros:

-- Working bugfree on my end.

-- Looks better in terms of both what little realism exists in L4D and in terms of overall visuals.

-- *Finishes* Valve's job.

Cons:

-- I just wish it would work online.

Conclusion:

 I know people have since managed to get survivors working with alternate pre-existing anims, but even if that would work, that hadn't happened (I don't think) when this was released.

Pros:

-- More sophisticated lighting than the original
-- Levels are nicely cluttered up with signs of other survivors fighting their way through the city
-- Tougher weapon spawns keep you on your toes
-- Dumpster is more defensible and not a gauntlet. (THANK YOU!)
- Tank and witch placement creates some very tense moments, but doesn't feel as unfair as some of the L4D2 port spawns.

Cons:

-- I don't find scavenge finales fun at all.

-- L4D2 survivors fit like a screen door on a submarine.

-- The light may be better, but there's also too much of it.

-- I was hoping for more new content and pathing, but didn't expect it either.

-- Bots will instantly fall to their deaths in spots on map two.

Conclusion:

In some ways this is better than the port Valve made of the campaign afterwards-- it makes fuller usage of L4D2's new features, doesn't abuse the gauntlet mechanic, and has much more attractive (if overly bright) lighting throughout. I find that the increase in brightness and L4D2 survivors take me out of the campaign somewhat, but it's a fresh twist even if I don't think it'll replace the official version on my PC. (I haven't played the original and can't comment on it.) Of course there are some flaws, but Valve's version is imperfect as well.

I just wish the final wasn't scavenge though, as I find it an extremely tedious game mode.

Pros:

Put simply, I just like this design more than the stock Coach-- he's more detailed and (I think) has a color scheme that's a little closer to what a high-school team might choose for their colors. (Not many high-school boys would pick purple . . .)

Cons:

Did you disable mipmaps in his textures? Occasionally he gets a bit of graininess about him from a distance. (Didn't want to edit/modify the package though, since you don't like that-- sorry for doing that earlier.)

Conclusion:

Glad you released this.

Pros:

-- It is what it says it is.

-- A drastic improvement that isn't also a drastic change.

Cons:

-- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet . . . 

Conclusion:

A nice upgrade over the original. 

Pros:

-- Animations are absolutely perfect.

-- Texture is high-res and pretty nice.

-- Model is up to Mr. Rifleman's usual high standard.

Cons:

-- I just don't have much attachment to this gun at all. (Personal, wouldn't feel right to deduct points for that.)

-- Not a huge fan of the firing sound. (Deagle uses standard pistol reload sounds, so I can't comment on the others you included.)

Conclusion:

I wasn't sure how to rate this due to my really not caring for the TT30, so I just averaged the previous two reviews. A good compile.

Pros:

-- Didn't know Ellis was a mechanic until seeing the skin prompted me to check out the wiki.

-- Just as good or better than the stock Ellis in terms of both quality and how well he fits in the game.

Cons:

-- Nothing, really. 

Conclusion:

Just a generally good mod. 

Pros:

-- Replaces the M60 with a better M60

-- Hefty model

-- Sounds aren't eardrum-shattering

-- As of the current moment, it couldn't be better-animated with the anims that are currently available for this gun.

Cons:

-- I'm really not a fan of the textures. Your edit is good, though.

-- Phong settings are purplish-blue one my screen-- check that, maybe?

Conclusion:

This needed a review to compensate for a certain something . . .
Otherwise I'd probably rate it more like a 8. Still one of the better M60 replacements available, as it's a great model ported well, and actually a recent mod.

Pros:

-- Far and a away the most detailed model and texture for this gun that I've found.

- Rugged.

-- Nicely ported as usual

-- Ejection mechanism is (apparently) actually properly rigged for the gun-- nice touch.

-- Flashlight is unobtrusive.

Cons:

-- Script would be a real problem if I didn't know how to remove such things easily. Luckily, that's quite an easy thing to do!

Conclusion:

You picked a good gun to port and did a good job of it-- what else can I say?

Pros:

-- Exactly what it says on the tin: Dead-Center specific skins for Special Infected. 

-- Pretty much everything would make sense in other campaigns, too.

-- Everything is top-notch.

-- Some of the skins use shader features I haven't seen used for SI before-- like the envmapped jockey.

-- Has the first charger skin I've ever wanted to use.

Cons:

-- Has some kinks that I'll address in the comments.

-- Doesn't come wrapped with a bow. 

Conclusion:

I hate to speak when I really don't have any authority (ability to produce skins), but a bunch of these skins have shader effects that overwrite each other: nearly every one of them has both $phongexponenttexture and $phongexponent (the global exponent is used instead of the texture), and if I'm not mistaken several of them have $diffuseexp, which I believe also overwrites exponent textures.

Other than that, this is great! The only think that I could think to add (and I hate to mention it, again because I'm quite talentless) would be a more saturated CI clothing gradient (to match the mall theme), but that's certainly not necessary for anything.

Pros:

- Survivors really look live they've had a few weeks of living on the run from zombies, not just a bad night's sleep

- Very detailed designs

- Nice glimpse of the history of the game

- More Left 4 Dead official/semi-official content

-Bill actually looks old enough to have been an adult during the Vietnam War.

- Francis looks appropriately skeezy

Cons:

-- Valve really changed the overall design of the characters during development, and Louis in particular doesn't seem to fit his voice acting at all

-- Francis must have required necromancy to resurrect, as there's nothing I can do to keep him from crashing, even w/o other mods and on L4d1 campaigns

-- Textures generally look like 2007

Conclusion:

I'm not really sure how to rate this. I like these designs a lot, as they're all much more detailed than and feel more appropriate to an end-of-the-world scenario than the stock character designs-- but I can't help but think they wandered out of a serious game and into a parody, which is what L4D is. (Especially l4d2.) 

So, I suppose I'll rate them on the rather enormous technical achievement of getting pre-L4D2 animations to work on the current game (without blowing up the game and killing onlien compatibility like the various L4D1 weapon packs available), and providing a glimpse at the history of one of my favorite franchise. From that perspective, this is nonpareil. Excellent, excellent work, even if the product of it isn't my favorite.

Pros:

-- AK74
-- Soviet AK74, like the version from STALKER that made me love the gun
-- Amazing model/textures
-- HyperMetal's animations
-- AK74
-- Excellent new sounds that don't bug out.

Cons:

-- So I can type something here, my limited understanding of guns (from videos) tells me that the AK74 has a bit less recoil than HM's animations do, but I don't care

Conclusion:

Yes.

Pros:

- Beautiful lighting (the first thing I noticed)
- Natural-feeling areas
- Single-item weapon spawns force you to think much more about what you pick up
- Overrun saferooms feel appropriately bleak
- Difficulty is a nice happy medium between "snoozefest" and "can't see the ground for the zombies"

Cons:

- Lots of tanks/witches spawned in tight corridors (first one was fun, it got a bit old after that) (-0.5)
-Some out of place graffiti (-0.0)

Conclusion:

If the only thing your nitpicky critic instincts can find to criticize aside from witch/tank spawns is graffiti that you wouldn't normally read, you're probably playing a pretty good custom campaign. This will probably become one of my favorites.

Pros:

- Animations are great and make me wish for more new compiles using B2l4D2 as a resource.
- Nice model and textures
- Looks good on bots/other players in addition to first-person view.
- Custom reload sounds worked without using rebuildaudiocache or updateaudiocache.
- "Vanilla friendly" but still excellent.

Cons:

- Not your fault, but the worn skin doesn't have normals for some of its textures-- thankfully the model is highpoly enough to mostly negate that.

Conclusion:

At the moment I don't have much reason to use any other replacer for the M16. I guess that's good?

Pros:

- Just as good as the unsupressed version of this compile
- Silencer textures are high-quality
- A more believable gun for the silenced SMG's role in the game

Cons:

- Has a script  I don't see the purpose of (-0.3),  but it's easily removed.
- This is only a matter of preference, but two UZIs are not necessarily better than one. (-0.0)

Conclusion:

All-around excellent mod, with no major flaws that I can think of.

Pros:

- Well-made compile (no errors/bugs that I am capable of perceiving.)
- Great model
- Excellent skin
- HUD icon
- I like the animations more than the default ones
- Not a crossover, port, or exotic weapon
- Doesn't have missing textures like the UZI mod I was using before.

Cons:

- Had to remove script in case I wanted to play online, but that was easy. (-0.3)

-Custom sounds would be nice, but they're easy enough to find for yourself. (-0.0)

Conclusion:

Effectively, this replaces any SMG replacers I might have had before.

Pros:

- Vasht's model deserves its popularity
- Skin is extremely high quality
- Has well-made normal maps
- Properly configured shader settings (!)
- Animation (I use the alt. anim) feels incredibly powerful

Cons:

- As said by others, doesn't seem to have helping hand/item grab animations (-0.3)

Conclusion:

Other than minor animation flaws (which are nowhere near as serious as the lack of a walking animation for the vanilla model), I can't think of any reason to use the default magnum over this one.