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MaydaX
07-17-2010, 08:27 AM
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
Powered by Source and Steam



http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/

Available: 19 July 2010

Should be fun after all, it's free.

England4eva
07-19-2010, 04:22 PM
Just a reminder this is out now :D

http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/

MaydaX
07-19-2010, 06:29 PM
I must say I'm impressed with the quality of this game. Nice clean menus (reminded me of Starcraft 2 beta), sdk with mod tools, a map editor, console, dedicated servers and more.

Also makes it very easy to play with friends by having a list scroll in the lower part of the screen of friends playing the game. Just click and you can join them.

Good for some point and click fun for sure.

http://img832.imageshack.us/g/swarm2010071919443281.jpg/

Azure Kite
07-19-2010, 08:03 PM
5 words.

Free. game. of. the. year.

MaydaX
07-19-2010, 08:14 PM
On top of the steam stats atm.

31,424 Alien Swarm
31,049 Counter-Strike
29,726 Counter-Strike: Source
26,388 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
17,217 Team Fortress 2

Misnomer
07-19-2010, 09:00 PM
On top of the steam stats atm.

Thus proving that, above all else, people love free stuff.

Go to a college job fair and watch the people gather free crap they have absolutely no need for sometime. It is a base human instinct I guess. Gather gather gather.