Saturday, May 7, 2011

Alien Swarm



With over 1100 games and counting, Valve is cranking out all types of games for all sorts of PC players.  Economy got you down?  Free games from Steam!

 Alien Swarm is a Sci-Fi co-op shooter from the Valve Corporation.  This game first appeared as a mod of Unreal Tournament 2004.  It's success was the driving force behind this 2010 remake.  The same team was hired by Valve to produce it, which is free to download on the Steam network.

This game is a top-down shooter; much like the first Grand Theft Auto, Gauntlet Legends, and (more recently) Zombie Apocalypse.  It features a fresh new look:  new graphics, weapons, and equipment.   There are tons of items to unlock, achievements to liberate and strategies to forge.

Characters are featured with class-specific abilities and signature weapons.  Up to four Steam friends can join a match.  Helping each other is optional though, as survival strategies make it perfectly possible to weld a door shut on a former companion and leave him for alien food - if not to save a few seconds as you make a mad dash for the exit.  Dirty tactics are still tactics.

Alien Swarm also features an SDK (Software Development Kit) that is equally as free as the game itself.  This program allows users to completely customize the game - creating their own levels, aliens, weapons, and even characters.  Over time, more and more custom features will be added.  In the same way that Counter Strike:  Source was modded, this game too will share a uniqueness among games that other platforms can't offer:  user-developed software.

From the developers who brought Half-Life, visit their site and download Alien Swarm for free!

18 comments:

  1. Gonna go give it a go. Thanks for that!

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  2. I love Warm Aliens. I haven't played too many of the user created levels, but the original levels were fun.

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  3. Steam never lets me down! Thanks for sharing.

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  4. Unreal tournament was a pretty entertaining game. If this thing is based on it...it'll definitely be fun to play.

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  5. hah I remember when it first came out I was the only one out of my friends who would play it.

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  6. sweet finally a decent games blog :P

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  7. Love Alien Swarm, really great game. Hopefully we'll see more stuff like that from Valve!

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  8. I used to be a whore for blizzard for the longest time, but Valve is really giving them a run for their money. At least they regularly release games. :P

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  9. Sweet, I'll have to check it out

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  10. Didn't know Valve release free games like this. The quality looks good too.

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  11. Wow i didn't know about this. Thanks for the share!

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  12. This game is really fun, but you need 3 competent friends to really enjoy it.

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  13. Alien Swarm was pretty excellent, but it's only really worth playing at the higher difficulty levels with good friends. Otherwise that accidental shotgun blast to the back is gonna be a lot harder to stomach

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  14. looks good!

    also like your blog... following

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  15. Finally a good looking game that is available for free! Will try it out asap :)

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  16. Love this game, can't wait for more content

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