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Alien Swarm

2010 65 / 100 Shooter
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 config Show full summary

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.

World design Nicht eindeutig GameplayCombat-focused Game modeCo-op Game modeMultiplayer

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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.

GameplayCombat-focused Game modeCo-op Game modeMultiplayer GenreShooter ThemeAction ThemeScience fiction ThemeWarfare Trait3d Trait4 player co-op Traitachievements Traitactive reload Traitalien invasion Traitaliens Traitauto-aim Traitbloody Traitbullet time Traitdarkness Traitdedicated servers Traitdownloadable content Traitexplosion Traitextra terrestrial Traitfree-to-play Traitfreeware Traitfriendly fire Traitfuture Traitfuturistic Traitfuturistic warfare Traitgunship Traithacking Traithealer Traitin-game map editor Traitinsects Traitinvasion Traitleveling Traitmelee Traitmilitary Traitmission based Traitmod origin Traitmod support Traitmotion tracker Traitmultiplayer lan Traitnovint falcon support Traitnuclear bomb Traitonline Traitonline co-op Traitplatform exclusive Traitshoot 'em up Traitslow-motion Traitspaceship Traitsteam Traitsteam achievements Traitsteam cloud Traitswarming enemies Traitteleportation Traitvalve anti-cheat

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Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Franchise
Standalone
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Spielprofil

Modi
Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
Action, Science fiction, Warfare
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Platform releases

  • PC (Microsoft Windows) Jul 10, 2010

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