Alien Swarm

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.

Main story

3.5 h

Main + extras

11 h

Completionist

19 h

Released

2010 · see every game from that year

Modes

Single player · Multiplayer · Co-operative

Perspective

Bird view / Isometric

Engine

Source

Multiplayer

• Local up to 4

• ValveDeveloper · Publisher

• ESRBMLanguage, Realistic Blood and Gore, Realistic Violence
• PEGI16Bad Language, In-Game Purchases, Violence

• Action
• Science fiction
• Warfare
• 3d
• 4 player co-op
• achievements
• active reload
• alien invasion
• aliens
• auto-aim
• bloody
• bullet time
• darkness
• dedicated servers
• downloadable content

1. This gameAlien Swarm2010
2. Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop2017 · Standalone expansion

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