The visuals are clean and serviceable but lack some of the finer details, and who thought it was a good idea to put advertisements in achievement boxes?
It’s the little touches in L4D2 that create an oppressively bleak atmosphere and push the game beyond the realm of just a hyperactive zombie shooting gallery.
20 new songs to play in strict order, and add them to your library. Far more exciting is downloading new songs as they’re released on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
The brilliantly colorful and evocative environments are awe-inspiring: This is the most starkly beautiful game of 2009, and one of the handsomest of all time.
The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony are collected, and are full of the same brilliant dialogue, memorable characters, and engaging story arcs.
A great solo campaign strings together spectacular set pieces at a breakneck pace, crafted with enough finesse to keep it from feeling like a shooting gallery.
Heavy metal comes to life: A violent, vaguely Norse landscape where battles are waged with axes and swords and the great evils are demons and false metal.