Alien Swarm is a new game from Valve That is completely free, and available on Steam starting today.
Valve describes the game best: [quote=Valve]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.
- 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[/quote]
The game originally was a mod for UT 2004, and the team was hired by Valve about two years ago to work on L4D 2, Portal 2, and a new version of Alien Swarm on the side. You may read about the UT mod on
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Free Co-Op for everyone!
