Spawned characters start at moderate health and lose some of their resources, especially a favorite main weapon

You can play one of four colorful characters (Coach, Nick, Ellis or Rochelle) who have various dialogue trees and the

This new characters are boring

characters crack jokes to ease the tension, and there are many objects in the world you can use creatively if you run out of ammo (or just feel like going nuts): baseball bats, chainsaws (of course!

Part of me misses the old l4d characters, like bill, and zoe.. but these new ones are so full of great humor and

The characters in this game are awful, uninspired and not a patch on the original four

But worse still are the poorly-stereotyped characters who make up the Survivors in this iteration; they simply don't appeal and grab you the way the original characters did.

I'm starting to miss the old levels and characters, but I don't want to go back to the old, boring guns and special

Part of me misses the old l4d characters, like bill, and zoe.. but these new ones are so full of great humor and

characters crack jokes to ease the tension, and there are many objects in the world you can use creatively if you run out of ammo (or just feel like going nuts): baseball bats, chainsaws (of course!

I dock this game 1 star because so far I like the characters from the original game.

New items like defibs that can resurrect a dead character and spitter goo that you can throw to draw zombies to it making for easier mass kills

Additionally, the characters automatically shout warnings to each other when a bosses are spotted.

For me they lack the character of the original team, and although Valve have lived up to their deserved reputation for the quality of the dialogue I just don't find them as engaging as the original 4

The new infected characters are lousy and not very creative, it has become overly complicated and lost all of its fun as well as a notable decrease in the quality of graphics

The characters could have been better

Speaking of the 'team', the new characters are a bit grating this time around and not nearly as funny as in L4D. Technically, the developers have done a great job-- L4D2 runs smoothly on my older PC (2.8 Pentium 4, 2 GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS, Windows XP SP3, widescreen)

Nothing really stands out or shines as much as in the first one

It is also the hardest SI for players to master as there are special rules about charging

the graphics r great, gameplay is entertaining, multi-player is fun, and the character dialog is hilarious

Nothing really stands out or shines as much as in the first one

It is also the hardest SI for players to master as there are special rules about charging

the graphics r great, gameplay is entertaining, multi-player is fun, and the character dialog is hilarious