Whether it be computer hacking, heavy weapons skills, welding doors shut or cutting them open, healing wounded comrades, setting ammo resupply points or dropping flares, your team has it covered, assuming you’re skilled enough to keep each of them alive long enough to use those abilities.Īs good a game as it is, there are some minor problems with Alien Swarm.
Each squad member has a special skill and progress is predicated on use of these abilities at key points in order to continue. In a setting lifted almost intact from the Aliens book of tropes, you are part of a team working your way through a futuristic base infested with the titular ETs. Choose weapons loadouts wisely.Started years ago as a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004 before being taken in-house by Valve, Alien Swarm is a Source-engine based isometric shooter that emphasizes teamwork and cooperative play over solo run-and-gun bravado. While big titles like Portal and Team Fortress soak up most of the fame, small projects like Alien Swarm are an even better showcase for the qualities that set this studio apart from the competition.Īlien Swarm team members have specialties. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine.The designers at Valve aren’t particularly prolific when it comes to games, but what they lack in volume they more than make up for in passion and polish. 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.Īlong with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK.
Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens.
With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.Īvailable free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics.
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