With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes.
Or as Valve originally framed it: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. Vaguely reminiscent of the original Alien Breed games and with more than a few passing references (cough, cough) to the film Aliens, Alien Swarm sees you mowing your way through scores of xenos while performing simple tasks along the way, like hacking into computers, disabling reactors and torching biomass. Valve went on to hire the team behind it to work on Left 4 Dead and Portal 2, but the Black Cat guys also found time to produce a polished Source-engine remake of their mod, which was released for free on Steam way back in 2010.
Though, unsurprisingly and rather disappointingly, this comes not from creator Valve, but from the ever-dependable modding community – in the form of the soon-to-be-released stand-alone expansion Reactive Drop.įor those with murky memories or anyone who hasn’t played it, Alien Swarm is a top-down, four-player, co-op shooter that began life as a total conversion for Unreal Tournament 2004. Yo! Stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen, because the virtually-forgotten freeware game Alien Swarm is finally about to see some much-needed reinvigoration.
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