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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.

Ratings:

IGDB

6.5

HowLongToBeat

7

HowLongToBeat:

Main story
3½h
Main + extra
12h
Completionist
21h
Co-op
11h
Vs.
11h

Achievements:

Steam
66

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Details

Companies:

Valve

Franchises:

Alien Swarm

Game engines:

Source

Languages:

English

Age ratings:

ESRB: M, PEGI: 16

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Release dates

Jul 10, 2010: Unknown platform (Worldwide)

Multiplayer

Offline players: 4