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Alien Swarm Add-on for UT2004 Showcased

Posted by michael on from the nuke-them-from-orbit dept.

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."

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  1. Re:This game mod looks nice. by homb · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's only 3rd person from above. That's a design choice, to encourage a more squad-level tactical experience.

  2. NOT natural selection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    this is not a deathmatch mod, it's coop and single player. Its alot of fun really and pulled off very professionally!
    BTW, no you cannot switch to first person mode, but that is very intentional..
    Find a few people owning ut04, set up a teamspeak server and have fun with this :-)

    1. Re:NOT natural selection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      Although NS isn't just a deathmatch game, this game is nothing like NS. (NS players, I am a constellation player who's been playing since first release. Trust me, this is nothing like NS.)

      This game, you control up to 4 characters (1 at a time, rest are either "hold" or "follow") in a top-down game. There's no building (although you can pick a deployable sentry as one of two weapons for any of your characters) and no resources. Really no "RTS" to this at all. More like old-school scrolling games although it looks pretty nice.

      The graphics are pretty good although a bit dark in spots. Gameplay is fairly hard (at least for the 2 of us who were playing) and you'll probably want to take a smart rifle for yourself. (The ai players are fast enough with a regular rifle.) A flashlight or flare will also be a huge blessing.

      There IS a slight RPG aspect to the game. Team members that make it through the level gain medals and skill points that can be used to improve your characters. :D

      Quite enjoyable althoug long-term it may not hold your attention.

      Definitely worth a download though.

  3. Re:This game mod looks nice. by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  4. More Mirrors by CrusadeR · · Score: 4, Informative
    http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5020

    http://www.3ddownloads.com/Action/Unreal%20Tournam ent%202004/Mods/AlienSwarm

    There's also a Loki Setup-based Linux package here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/liflg/alien.swa rm_1.0-english.run?download

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    :wq
  5. On another note... by Jaysyn · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... Jailbreak 200x is also out (yesterday) & is lots of fun!

    Jaysyn

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    There is a war going on for your mind.
  6. Patch by dryan · · Score: 5, Informative

    FYI, this mod requires the latest patch.

  7. Pretty cool by Fiz+Ocelot · · Score: 4, Interesting
    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!