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Article published 17th July 2010, 16:36 by DY357LX and last updated 17th July 2010, 16:36

Free On Monday!

Valve are releasing this game on Monday for free! Details here...
article_main From now on I'll call it "Kotaku + Paste"

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The Alien Swarm Unreal Tournament 2004 mod becomes a full, Source-powered four-player co-op tactics game, available for free on Steam this Monday, courtesy of the nice folks at Valve.

Valve hired on the team responsible for Alien Swarm two years ago. Since then, they've been busy working on the Left 4 Dead series and now Portal 2, but they've managed to squeeze out a little extra time to update Alien Swarm as a full Source release.

Alien Swarm is a top-down four-player shooter, similar to arcade games of old. Players one of eight unique characters with four different classes, and battle their way through hordes of aliens using more than 40 different types of weapons and equi9pment. Players will gain levels as they play, unlocking persistent items along the way.

Not only is Valve releasing the game for free on Monday, it's releasing the game's entire code base and modding tools as well. With a simple, tile-based map editor, modders should have a field day with Alien Swarm.

Look for it on Steam come Monday!


Alien Swarm, Natural-Selection 2 and Starcraft 2 all in the same month! Woo!

Comments

18th July 2010, 17:59

DY357LX
Trailer is here:



Looks great.

19th July 2010, 12:50

Talarin
For what it's worth - a gameplay video is available on Steam.

Gameplay Video

I've just described it in the office as "a cross of Gauntlet and Starship Troopers".
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