Alien Swarm Add-on for UT2004 Showcased

Crusader writes "Black Cat Games has announced the release of Alien Swarm, their Unreal Tournament 2004 modification that features an overhead POV cooperative multiplayer battle against AI-driven aliens. There's torrents for both the trailer and the mod itself. Linux users are catered to as well: the ZIP package contains a shell script-based installer."

Comments

This game mod looks nice.

[antdude]

Does anyone know if this game has first perspective? I watched the trailer, and it seems it is like only from top view.

Re:This game mod looks nice.

[DrEldarion]

If you want a game like that, play co-op in pretty much any other FPS out there. The whole point of this is to be an overhead squad-based tactical action game.

Sort of like a real-time multiplayer X-Com.

Re:This game mod looks nice.

[antdude]

Actually, I found out there is some 1st perspective but only in spectator mode. You can watch up to four different close players. The camera sizes aren't big, but very cool. I will have a ball playing this!

Re:NOT natural selection

[Anonymous Coward]

right, but I can't use that because I set up a listen server and ut's voice support doesn't work for the server player, only for the clients.

Pretty cool

[Fiz Ocelot]

Downloaded and played through the tutorial and first campaign level. It's very well done. A little too easy to roast all of your team mates with the flamer though...did that the first time I got a hold of it.

The top down perspective makes things feel like there's something around the corner but you can't quite see far enough....but it's beeping at you..gah!

Re:NOT natural selection

[NecoX]

Which sucks ass and doesn't have voice activation, and eats resources.

Mod Community Comes Through Again

[OmegaBlac]

I am absolutely enjoying this mod of UT2K4. Just played through the tutorial and will probably hop online later tonite. The AI for my teammates is average nothing exciting, they did what they were supposed to do. Will see how they handle the SP missions later on. One of those alien species moves very quick so its nice that the teammates are able to track them and kill them before they overwhelm your main player.

The mod communites that pop around PC games never cease to amaze me. Ever since Wolfenstein 3D & Doom I have been totally awe-struck by the level of innovation and creativity that mod creators contribute to well established games. These are the people that make games like UT and Quake have a prolong lifespan in the lives of gamers like myself. Congrats to Black Cat Games for an excellent mod for UT2K4 and just in time too! I was getting kind of bored with the same old onslaught, CTF, and DM. Now this mod breathes new life into the game!

Re:Linux users are "Catered to?"

[Profe55or Booty]

this was "insightful"?

jesus christ, so you're bitter because they're finally accepting you as a market and you whine that they're just "jumping on the bandwagon"? what exactly do you want them to do? either way you're going to be bitching.

/trolled, i hope

Try the game.

[ReKleSS]

Although both games are conceptually similar to Alien versus Predator, Alien Swarm has a completely different style of gameplay. Personally, I prefer AS because it's much more original. For NS, I can just play AvP 1 or 2. -ReK

md5sum problems

[Glyndwr]

Hmmmmm....

[~]$ md5sum alien.swarm_1.0-english.run
81a8f7e45c7a5e9cdb9e0 9ab4365ff25 alien.swarm_1.0-english.run
[~]$ cat alien.swarm_1.0-english.run.md5
2a372dcfae4621051 db0ee97af4f7c95 alien.swarm_1.0-english.run
[~]$ sh ./alien.swarm_1.0-english.run
Verifying archive integrity...Error in MD5 checksums: bcc7daefa6fb3c0a04789b9419afd7ff is different from c4fb1c402cd02027e3392292efa1538e

Charming! Four different md5sums. Wassup, doc? I'm just going to get the tar.bz2 from BitTorrent, I think.

Re:NOT natural selection

[Anonymous Coward]

OH yes, because EVERY gamer alive is a master of .ini files and actually knows these stupid tweaks off by heart. They ALWAYS do a half assed job on the "additionals" in the UT series.