man-man Posted:

Playing in single player only you’d have been missing out. Playing with bots vs playing with people… really doesn’t compare well. I like VS mode, because playing as zombies is cool, but even if that’s not your thing then for the love of something, play a co-op campaign.

Sure, if you’re playing with the unwashed public then you inevitably get some random douchebags, but they really do seem to be in the minority. Most of the time you’ll get a decent game out of a random group, and if you know the people outside of the game then all the better.

L4D2 adds more weapons, more maps, more special infected (designed to fix some of the “cheap” survivor tactics), and is generally a lot of fun… and there’s also the fact that the number of people playing the original is declining while there are still plenty of people to find a random game with in L4D2.

To be fair, I only played Left 4 Dead at a buddy’s house on his console, he didn’t have reliable internet or a second controller. After about 45 min I said, ‘**** this’ and smoked a bowl. I’ll probably end up getting the package deal since it’s only ten and some change. I should give it a day, though, so I can get reasonable bandwidth on download.