Don't Pass on the Passing!

So, in the spirit of this being a blog about anything and everything, I'm going to do a little review on the new DLC (Downloadable content) for Left 4 Dead 2!






Let me just start by saying that I totally missed this coming out on the 22nd and I was a sad panda, but there's no time to dwell on that! Courtney and I both downloaded this last night and played with her sister and her friend Josh. First we played the new campaign, The Passing, which has our survivors just after their helicopter ride. I got stuck being fat old, bossy coach, but that's okay because it was still badass! You meet some new enemy types and these one dudes that sometimes drop health packs, which is a total win, and you can get 2 new weapons. There's a golf club, which you get an achievement Fore (Ha! I made a pun! Get it? Cause that's what the achievement is called AND it's a golf reference! Okay, I'll stop now) and a gun, which I never picked up, but it's a machine gun, I think. More like a hand-held Gatling gun, which is kind of cool if you want expend more bullets than actually hit anything.
Supposedly this campaign is supposed to take only 40 minutes to an hour, but we spent quite a while on it as we tried to collect gas cans while be pummeled repeatedly by every special infected in the game! We finally got down a method that worked by having 2 people collect the gas cans and 2 people pouring while our favorite survivors from the first Left 4 Dead sniped from a balcony. People might complain that this one is too short, but piss on them. It was totally worth and as a DLC that's priced at roughly seven bucks, I don't think there's really room to complain. Yeah, you don't get to play as the Left 4 Dead one characters, but you do get another mode, Mutations, that's akin to realism where you can play with upwards of 8 people. You get 4 survivors and 4 infected and it's a blast! The four of us played that more than the actual campaign after we finished it. There's also a host of new achievements, it makes the replay value even higher! So basically, if you love Left 4 Dead 2, get this campaign. It's worth every microsoft point, even if it is short.

That's all for now! See ya!