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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!
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!
