Alien Swarm Free Game Hitting Steam July 19th

[gov78]

About the Game
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​

Pretty neat to see valve doing stuff like this hopefully we see more since portal and now this maybe we will

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[injected11]

Sounds reasonably cool, and at the price of free, it instantly hops onto my list of games to get. Gonna be the 5th free game I've got off Steam.

EDIT: Just watched the trailer. Left 4 Smash TV much?

 

[Thunderboyx]

I like how it says "Pre-purchase Alien Swarm on Steam" , then when you go to the link, it says
"Available free of charge,"

Anyways, can't wait for the game to come out, more free games for me

 

[TheWingless]

I remember playing this when I had UT2K4. I also remember dying a lot. It's quite a surprise that it's free and that they were hired by Valve, though they do that quite a lot don't they? Can't wait to play it, as I like to Co-Op with the family and friends. The tile based map maker also sounds nice.

Preview Trailer page (Also on the steam page)
Original UT2K4 mod page

 

[Berthenk]

Damn, this look awesome! Gotta try some LAN with my brother...

 

[gov78]

i smell a GBAtemp games night with this on the list

 

[popoffka]

Looks cool!
I'll definitely play this. And GBATemp Night will be really awesome!

 

[purplesludge]

i smell a GBAtemp games night with this on the list

Me too

 

[Forstride]

Looks like my kind of game!

I'll definitely be downloading and playing the crap out of this when it's available on Monday.

 

[jgu1994]

Are we able to preload it?

Edit: Looking at the trailer, it looks a lot like smash tv, so I will be downloading this.

 

[ProtoKun7]

I'll look into this too, I might like it.

 

[Alex221]

Pure Epicness

 

[Terminator02]

For the price of free I'm in.

 

[supersonic5000]

It looks awesome and it's free.

My kind of game.

 

[BedtimeGuy]

trailer looks good, and even if the game doesn't turn out to be as great as it looks... ITS FREE!

i love VALVe.

 

[Jolan]

I loved this game back in the days of Unreal Tournament.

 

[myuusmeow]

I'll give it a try but I'll probably not do to good at it.
I see that this comes with the Source SDK. Does that mean people can use this to play Source mods?

 

[Berthenk]

I'll give it a try but I'll probably not do to good at it.
I see that this comes with the Source SDK. Does that mean people can use this to play Source mods?

Nope, someone at Valve said that it's a seperate SDK, so it's not compatible with mods if they're not made with that SDK.

 

[DaRk_ViVi]

I just started using Steam and, yeah, this game looks awesome! :0
BTW, are there any other (decent) games free of charge on Steam? I saw something like Coil and Space Wars but they are nothing more than bad Flash Games ported to Steam. :\

 

[myuusmeow]

I just started using Steam and, yeah, this game looks awesome! :0
BTW, are there any other (decent) games free of charge on Steam? I saw something like Coil and Space Wars but they are nothing more than bad Flash Games ported to Steam. :\

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/show...ad.php?t=851573

Peggle Extreme and Trackmania specifically are pretty awesome.