i played fear and i didnt see any of that. i know you're kidding, i just don't get where you're coming from.
A) you can't tell the scale
B) the scale is perfectly fine
C) there are blank, mostly empty stores as place-holders. this is a beta version, work in progress. did you think i never intended on detailing stores? it isn't even fully textured yet.
i do like playing L4D but i took a crack at making a level and it's really not my cup of tea. this could possibly be converted to a L4D map if i dumb it down a lot, but its very big... so i don't think it would work as a survival map. and it isn't an insanely long string of a map, so it wouldn't work as a regular map either.