Technology Alien Swarm - Possibly the best FREE game you will ever play.

Prize Gotti

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I've been following this games development for several years. It original started just as a HL2 mod, but Valve took note of the great work and went into partnership with the mods creators to release it as a full FREE standalone game.



To play this game, you will need Steam, if you play PC games, you probably all ready have this.

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

System Requirements

Minimum:
o OS: Windows® 7 / Vista / Vista64 / XP
o Processor: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
o Memory: 1 GB for XP / 2GB for Vista
o Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible video card with 128 MB, Shader model 2.0. ATI X800, NVidia 6600 or better
o Hard Drive: At least 2.5 GB of free space
o Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Recommended:
o OS: Windows® 7 / Vista / Vista64 / XP
o Processor: Intel core 2 duo 2.4GHz
o Memory: 1 GB for XP / 2GB for Vista
o Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible video card with Shader model 3.0. NVidia 7600, ATI X1600 or better
o Hard Drive: At least 2.5 GB of free space
o Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Did I mention its FREE?
 
I haz OSX. :(

I could put steam on Boot Camp though. :)

Too much work, though. :(

I did hear a lot about this game on Digg where everyone was freaking out about it.
 
this is my kinda game, fast paced, tactical and the murder of hundreds of hoarding enemies coming in all directions. the inclusion of achievements gives the game additional goals other than just slaughter, and from what ive heard from the developers and valve, more is to come. im rather addicted, custom campaigns are available as well.

alot of people have been comparing the style of the game being similar to Left 4 Dead, which itself was made be the same team, but the teamwork tactics works better here.

you can also play in first person by putting a cvar in the console, but i'm preferring this top down view.

Also, playing this game reminds me so much of Starship Troopers, but with a hint of Alien in there with the face huggers in the game.
 

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