good campgain

nice music

nice everything

crashed on map 4

overall i think i crashed i think the campgain was in a good shape but i think my l4d2 crashed on me for some reason idk why

- Good graphics and Sound Track
- Given choice paths to travel was a nice touch
- Nice OST
- Boards nice an long, and good areas to explore and travel

- Bots spawn in between the walls
- SI get stuck behind spots and never appear
- AI don't pick up health packs on 2 map
- AI don't talk to at all
- On one map in the start of the safe room the health-packs were floating in mid air.
- not enough health packs or pills in the vast areas, however i did see a lot of guns and defibs
- No Intro and a very very bad ending made no sense at all
- Need more excitement was very bored on all levels but 3.

I know this is the first version and I hope the fixes are put in place so i'll be looking forwards to downloading the updates to see if any of those things get fixed.

+ Very nice graphics and details all the way(+0.8)
+ Breathtaking atmosphere (music, etc...) (+0.7)
+ Nice dynamic grass(+0.6)
+ Cool alternative routes(+0.5)
+ Fair navigation path(+0.4)
+ Great pacing(+0.3)
+ Fun Radioactive areas (color_correction+trigger_hurt)(+0.2)
+ On-screen overlays (+0.1)

- Poster is a bit dull (-0.1)
- Sometime SI and tank was stuck (-0.2)
- No uncommon commons (-0.3)
- Way too many metal detectors (-0.4)
- Survivors never talk (-0.4)
- No original events (only door alarms) (-0.5)
- Tremendous FPS drops in some areas (-0.6)
- Absence of any Intro or Outro (-0.7)
- Bad gameplay balance (-0.8)
- Crash to desktop (-0.9)

Overall the Cons outweigh the Pros but this is NOT my final review as it's NOT the final version of this Masterpiece.
(Versus NOT tested yet as well...more Pros and Cons to come)
Keep up the great work, I hope to see an update soon ;D
8.7/10 the 23rd of May 2013

Great level design and detail.

Good custom textures, very gritty.

Nice custom music to fit the atmosphere.

Immersive and accurate.

Fairly lengthy.

Lots of bugs such as bots spawning inside walls and floating saferoom items.

Weird saferooms. Upon entering a saferoom and loading the next map, the saferoom would completely change.

Hard to find direction. In some places we and my friend got stuck and couldnt find the way to go. An example of this is the ladder in the sewers which leads to the breaker switch. It was too dark and blended in with the wall.

Overall I really enjoyed this campaign, the level design and quality was much better than most other campaigns on this website. I also appreciate the amount of custom content that was put into this campaign so that it didn't just feel like a typical l4d2 map. As for the bugs, they can be a bit off putting but they can easily be worked around and dont break the game in any way.

Also, don't let the people here get you down. Most of em are idiots who don't know what aspects go into level design and simply dislike a campaign just because " its buggy ".

- Good graphics and Sound Track
- Given choice paths to travel was a nice touch
- Nice OST
- Boards nice an long, and good areas to explore and travel

- Bots spawn in between the walls
- SI get stuck behind spots and never appear
- AI don't pick up health packs on 2 map
- AI don't talk to at all
- On one map in the start of the safe room the health-packs were floating in mid air.
- not enough health packs or pills in the vast areas, however i did see a lot of guns and defibs
- No Intro and a very very bad ending made no sense at all
- Need more excitement was very bored on all levels but 3.

I know this is the first version and I hope the fixes are put in place so i'll be looking forwards to downloading the updates to see if any of those things get fixed.

+Very nice looking map
+Decent concept

-Terrible Poster
-Took two years to publish and there are still bugs that make the map unplayable
- The "Oh man my mouse isn't working anymore" part
- Random spawn points that separate half the team at the beginning of the map
- Finale ended with no warning; We never made it to any escape vehicle or designated area to escape

Too much Vodka was consumed during the production of this campaign

+ Very nice graphics and details all the way(+0.8)
+ Breathtaking atmosphere (music, etc...) (+0.7)
+ Nice dynamic grass(+0.6)
+ Cool alternative routes(+0.5)
+ Fair navigation path(+0.4)
+ Great pacing(+0.3)
+ Fun Radioactive areas (color_correction+trigger_hurt)(+0.2)
+ On-screen overlays (+0.1)

- Poster is a bit dull (-0.1)
- Sometime SI and tank was stuck (-0.2)
- No uncommon commons (-0.3)
- Way too many metal detectors (-0.4)
- Survivors never talk (-0.4)
- No original events (only door alarms) (-0.5)
- Tremendous FPS drops in some areas (-0.6)
- Absence of any Intro or Outro (-0.7)
- Bad gameplay balance (-0.8)
- Crash to desktop (-0.9)

Overall the Cons outweigh the Pros but this is NOT my final review as it's NOT the final version of this Masterpiece.
(Versus NOT tested yet as well...more Pros and Cons to come)
Keep up the great work, I hope to see an update soon ;D
8.7/10 the 23rd of May 2013

good job on all the details and the artistic touch and the dark and creepy areas.
The Level Design is good apart from abit too many corridors for my liking.
The sun changing color was a really cool touch
some good navigation throughout the maps.
The OST sounds preety cool but not loud enough

yeah bad fps, really ruined the maps for me but that can be fixed.
a bit dull in some areas and to be honest not a fan of metal detectors in every shop on map 1 and all the "open the door" = loud sound = zombie attack. People will always prefer playing on a fun original map then a boring good looking one not saying this one is boring at all but with abit work this will be a really good campaign.
For a first release this is REALLY good material. Not many campaign is perfect on first release, it's impossible. Thanks to the community all the cons I have read will be long gone.

good campaign with quite a few twists that I liked and some new features I liked too.
After all theses years I suppose I'm abit harder then before as I look far more in how the map's are made and what they bring to the table. 7/10 but with a few tweaks some camera movement a more epic finale map I'll push this up a point or two.
Im one of the people who LOVE original events (bravo to some cool ones in the community) and I think they can be re thought in this campaign.
even though L4d2 is no longer the brand new hype game its worth a game a two to check out some new stuff.

some areas are very neat

good amount of detail

chapter writing on each map

good architecture

-TERRIBLE fps drop

-ALL events are a door...come on this game has been out for 4 years now and you guys couldn't come up with better then door alarm's?..

-Generator event = ridiculous that 3 generators are needed to open....a tiny door?! c4 explosives to blow up.....a wooden door?..

-Displacement work is ridiculous and ugly

-ANOTHER campaign made by artistically gifted people but have never played the game

ONCE again a promising campaign but after 2 play throughs and a ridiculous and boring finale...I wont play this again.
NO intro NO outro scene either.
Cant hear the OST
almost EVERY safe room spawn is f k up I mean come on dude don't you know the safe room before has to be in the exact same place and the next one?..

TERRIBLE fps performances that killed it for me. I have a good pc and it crashed twice I can't imagine the low end pc's even loading this..

Allot of promise, once again , but in the end just a big disappointment

- 4 maps were long and detailed
- loved finding fuses in the first map. Gives the player an excuse to explore.
- first map also reminded me of Dead Rising 1's mall
- lots of zombies to kill. Lots.
- very gritty and dark feel to the map. Great scary vibe!
- you can tell that a lot of time went into making these maps, just by the variety in layout alone.

- on the third and forth maps, I had spawning issues. On the third one I spawned inside a wall that was between the saferoom and the stock room. On the fourth map three members of our team started off OUTSIDE the first wall that need to be blown up.
- on the fourth map it wasn't entirely clear that you were supposed to use the explosives on the walls. There was no white outline or explanation.
- on the first and some of the second maps, there are a lot of metal detectors. It's not practical to have METAL detectors in every store, since stores don't actually have metal detectors. I would change it so that there is one set of metal detectors or one trip of an alarm that doesn't stop until you find the fuses. That way you have a constant (but not ridiculous) horde that puts the pressure on. Metal detectors are in airports, not malls.
- the ending is HORRIBLE. My team gets through the door and we're running to escape, and the screen just blacks out with no sign of IF we escaped, HOW we escaped, and WHERE the escape was. Fix this, if nothing else!

This is a fantastic campaign, but it's too buggy to receive a 9 and the ending is pitiful. Fix it up and you have a very memorable and iconic campaign!

+ OST
+ Atmosphere
+ Alternative routes
+ Realistic sound effects
+ Special Radioactive Zones
+ Custom Movie-like Soundscape
+ Custom skybox, models, textures
+ Details of a nearly impossible amount
+ Instructions, time, location infor every start

- Saferoom doors without levers, 1st saferoom door misplaced.
- The poster could've been done much better
- Endless mobs every 15 seconds before finale
- Supplies floating in mid air in 1st saferoom
- Flippin alarm doors all over the first map
- Least supplies in the hardest part
- Intro in small font-size
- Lousy, cliche events.
- The Finale

Finally after having been taunting and torturing every waiting soul for 3 years, Life Is Not A Bed of Roses paced out of our dusty watchlists. However, so far as we could tell from the reviews already posted, it is not so positively received as some claimed they placed too much expectation on this project.
As far as I'm concerned, while the whole campaign was designed out of unique theories, realistic locale settings and both visual and audio impressiveness, it is somehow twisted and distorted in the essential significance of the game itself which is fighting zombies through variously changeable and designable events, which resulted in a lower rating even then campaigns with much less details.
Concerning the mapping, it confines players in a certain area, as players can feel the boundness through the whole campaign.
Finally, I personally don't believe that developers that created a campaign with such unrivalled atmosphere and ambient designs could fail with a poster, a saferoom door, an event in the game, and a few mobs in the game. That is weird. Specially the finale, shouting barrels, setting c4s through mobs and tanks just to open the weirdest "security door" to get downstairs to be clipped at the exit and blackened to the end?
IF the campaign should be optimized someday in the future, it won't save many plays. Perhaps same as "Claustrophobia", part of the fault should be ours, we rushed you guys. Thank you all for all your efforts, though I might've written too critically, with nothing but respect, sincerely.

Reconsidering the pros and cons, i think these cons aren't that obvious, this is a beauty alright.
Mapping: 10/10
Events: 7/10
Experience: 9/10
EXTRA: 1.0
Total: 9.6