Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet's surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. Alien Swarm, released just last week (7-19-10) is a tactical overhead shooter released by Valve (Creators of the Half-Life Series).The game was actually created by a group of community mod developers hired on by them. However, take a look at the screenshots below to see the difference in the game.Īlien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community. A third-person camera, depth of field effects, and 'a wide variety of gameplay additions.' Although what those are isn't clear yet. The game will also include updates to the Source engine (in the SDK), and has had some changes made to it in its Source incarnation. If you don't remember the first version, here's Quintin's feature on the game from 2008. Along with it the complete SDK and code base is being released, all available for free this Monday (19th). It looks pretty damned fantastic.īut it's not the only thing that's coming. The new version of top-down shooter Alien Swarm can be seen in action here. Except at the same time they've been making Alien Swarm all over again in Source. The team behind it, we've just learned, were hired by Valve two years ago, and have since been working on L4D and now Portal 2. Remember Alien Swarm? A total conversion mod for UT 2004, with four-player co-op top-down action. So, well, Valve just rather nonchalantly announced a game.

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