Alien Swarm releasing today for free!

[Goli]

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

Release Date: 19 Jul 2010

http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/
Anyone here downloading

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[Scott-105]

I am. Add me on Steam lol...I have no friends

 

[ether2802]

the game looks so nice, I wish there was a game like this but on the Wii, instead of FPS, I mean I like those, but now it's time for a diferent kind of shooter with coop...!!

 

[Goli]

the game looks so nice, I wish there was a game like this but on the Wii, instead of FPS, I mean I like those, but now it's time for a diferent kind of shooter with coop...!!

I haven't played it myself but Alien Syndrome for Wii and PSP is similar to this, I think.

 

[Flame]

do i need to install Steam to get this? can i make a Steam account and add tthis to my list of games?

 

[Goli]

do i need to install Steam to get this? can i make a Steam account and add tthis to my list of games?

Yes and yes. Keep in mind the game will be avaliable to download in about 4 hours, according to steam.

 

[Scott-105]

do i need to install Steam to get this? can i make a Steam account and add tthis to my list of games?

Yeah. That's what I did when Portal was free.

EDIT: Goli beat me to it

 

[injected11]

This was posted like 2 days ago. The topic is 6 below this. No real excuse for missing it.

But yes, I'm getting it. "injected11" on Steam.

 

[Splych]

getting it.
it's free so it's a +1 for me.

 

[Deleted_171835]

I'm getting it!
It's free.

 

[Sterling]

I am going to Sign up and download steam. This looks good. Hey you can't beat free stuffz right?

 

[Goli]

do i need to install Steam to get this? can i make a Steam account and add tthis to my list of games?
Yeah. That's what I did when Portal was free.

EDIT: Goli beat me to it


I did that too

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This was posted like 2 days ago. The topic is 6 below this. No real excuse for missing it.

But yes, I'm getting it. "injected11" on Steam.

Sorry, I actually didn't even search....
QUOTE(Sterl500 @ Jul 19 2010, 12:39 PM)

I am going to Sign up and download steam. This looks good. Hey you can't beat free stuffz right?

You should have signed up when they were giving Portal for free

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[Forstride]

I'm getting it. Paired up with an HDTV as my monitor, I think I'll have a lot of fun.

 

[T-hug]

Hey guys this was already posted http://gbatemp.net/t241135-alien-swarm-fre...steam-july-19th