User blog comment:Damac1214/Some Zombie Polls/@comment-4122733-20130424130406/@comment-3967954-20130424202528

The only point I agree with is the voice actors. Admittedly, the "original" characters had very good voice actors. However, even the best voice actors in the world can't stop their quotes from being horribly unfunny and repetitive.

Tank is the only one I liked. Nikolai was just juvenile and stereotypical. Apparently reinforcing the myth that all Russians are fat, drunk and stupid is hilarious. Also, doesn't he make numerous quotes about murdering his wives? What's so funny about that?

Takeo barely talked, and when he did it was basically just the same as Nikolai; stereotypical bullshit that wasn't even funny. Richtofen was a perverted psychopath that, while slightly humerous in his earlier appearances, he got horribly repetitive and just started to annoy pretty much everyone.

I prefer the new cast because their quotes are more intelligent and, if you play enough, you'll hear some pretty funny ones. Yeah, they're still stereotypes, but they're more interesting ones. And at least with the new cast, they actually thought of some new stuff to say in Die Rise, whereas the previous cast spewed almost identical quotes on every map they starred in.

I'd also argue that the new characters have a much better storyline going for them. The previous cast just did whatever Richtofen told them to without questioning it, whereas the new cast have a choice. The storyline has never been a strong point for zombies, but at least they're put some thought into it in BOII, whereas in BO they seemed to have just made it up as they went along.