New free game from Valve!

[EcHoEs]

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

It will be available for FREE in Steam in about 3 hours! So be sure to download!

Pre-purchase Alien Swarm on Steam

[Dragonshadow]

Post this on FPSOwned instead!

[EcHoEs]

Decided to post here too :P

[Sednogmah]

Alien Swarm is basically a pimped clone of the 1990s "Alien Breed" series. The story, atmosphere, gameplay, weapons, in-game computer terminals, ... everything is like Alien Breed It's awesome though. Kept me busy for the entire evening with 4-man coop.




Now I feel like an old fart.

[d3rrial]

I do not get the game at all. I know I can shoot and stuff, but I never really kill the enemys. My teammates always die, doors cannot be opened and stuff. I dislike the game.

[Dragonshadow]

Alien Swarm is basically a pimped clone of the 1990s "Alien Breed" series. The story, atmosphere, gameplay, weapons, in-game computer terminals, ... everything is like Alien Breed It's awesome though. Kept me busy for the entire evening with 4-man coop.




Now I feel like an old fart.

No, Alien Swarm is an update to the ut2004 mod. Alien Breed: Impact on Steam is your alien breed update

I do not get the game at all. I know I can shoot and stuff, but I never really kill the enemys. My teammates always die, doors cannot be opened and stuff. I dislike the game.

You're doinitrong.

[Remus]

indeed, you're doinitrong

[Sednogmah]

No, Alien Swarm is an update to the ut2004 mod. Alien Breed: Impact on Steam is your alien breed update

No? Read my post again. Where did I say that it's an update? I called it a clone. The parallels between Alien Swarm and the original Alien Breed series are so obvious you would have to try very hard to ignore them.

Nevertheless, Alien Swarm is a great game and a tribute to its spiritual roots, adding a lot of new game mechanics.

Thanks for the hint towards the new version of Alien Breed though. I will have to try it.