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Alien Swarm - Free on Steam!!

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 Post subject: Alien Swarm - Free on Steam!!
PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:43 pm 
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Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.

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. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. 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.

Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine.

Tactical, 4 player co-op action game with a top-down perspective
Complete game code and mod tools
Unlock persistent items by gaining levels
Over 40 weapons and equipment with countless loadout configurations
4 unique classes and 8 unique characters
Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats
64 achievements
Tile-based map generation tool

Check it out here

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 Post subject: Re: Alien Swarm - Free on Steam!!
PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:59 am 
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tried it a bit. immersive and fun.

i think it's really nice of valve to give this out for free (it's easily worth a few dollars). I suspect that there might be a few paid map packs down the line, but a part of me really believes that this is valve's big experiment in community made content for games.

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 Post subject: Re: Alien Swarm - Free on Steam!!
PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:15 pm 
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A friend of mine played it a bit Saturday night with a couple of other players and it was pretty fun.

Plenty challenging and while it wont win an graphics awards, it does look pretty good.

Valve is making a lot of good will with this game.

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