Quick Look: Alien Swarm

Fuck all the stuck up self righteous people who attacked other giantbombers when they asked for a quicklook for this.

I downloaded this because it was free with no intention of trying it anytime soon but maybe now I will try it.

" Fuck all the stuck up self righteous people who attacked other giantbombers when they asked for a quicklook for this. "

It's a really fun game, now imagine the possiblities of the user created content. I hear we're getting a Starcraft map with custom everything. Gonna poop my pants.

" Fuck all the stuck up self righteous people who attacked other giantbombers when they asked for a quicklook for this. "

wow vinny is the worst kind of team player.

" @christ0phe said:

" Fuck all the stuck up self righteous people who attacked other giantbombers when they asked for a quicklook for this. "

I think "attack" is the wrong term to use. I still think it's a pointless video, cos the game is free. Plus, it contradicts GB's policy. I distinctly remember Jeff once saying that covering flash games on the internet was pointless because they're all free. Why should this get treated differently?  But whatever, I enjoy listening to the crew rambling on about pretty much anything... so it's all good. "

PRESTIGE MODE. 

I've played through this a number of times with friends. Ramping up the difficulty adds some replay to it but I still don't see coming back much after I've unlocked all the guns (and I'm close) until the SDK gets some action. 
 
Still, a free game with an sdk - can't really go wrong..

Th is game is fun but may overheat your PC.  See the official Steam forum thread.

I just got a "Eat, Pray, Love" ad on the top of the quicklook page. I got a chuckle out of it.

" @innovacious: I'm also from the UK and on an unlimited package. Don't get me wrong, I'm more than fine with this video being up. I just don't think it serves too much purpose is all. "

I cool thing is while it's short atm, there will be tons of community maps, just wait, give it 4 months and you could easily squeeze 20 hours and counting out of this baby.

for a free game it really has a lot of goodies. tight gameplay and all that, but free SDK for it and such. so expect a lot of MODs for this in the coming weeks. looking forward to the addons for sure.

All I can think of now is Eat, Pray, Love.
 
It's weird hearing the Left 4 Dead sound queues in this.

" I just got a "Eat, Pray, Love" ad on the top of the quicklook page. I got a chuckle out of it. "

This game is pretty brutal, even on normal if you stray off by yourself for too long you'll usually die. The friendly fire is a real bitch, so easy to shoot other people and not even realize it.
 
If they kept it up to date with new levels, lowered the ff damage and maybe made ammo/health a little easier to come by I'd happily pay for it.  My guess is this free version is serving as a demo of sorts.

There is a ad up there?  Ad blocker FTW!  

They are terrible at this game. xD

And....my computer can't play it.  I hate this machine. 

" This game is pretty brutal, even on normal if you stray off by yourself for too long you'll usually die. The friendly fire is a real bitch, so easy to shoot other people and not even realize it.  If they kept it up to date with new levels, lowered the ff damage and maybe made ammo/health a little easier to come by I'd happily pay for it.  My guess is this free version is serving as a demo of sorts. "

I downloaded this right when it came out and have been playing it all week. Although this game isn't as fun with random people, it's a blast to play with friends. I agree with Brad's sentiment that they could have easily charged $10 for this.

I saw the add ons options, which means custom maps :D

" They are terrible at this game. xD "

No smoking in Star Trek? Are you sure Captain?

Pretty awesome for a free game. Co-op and persistent leveling make games like this even better.

This is the second best "Download" only game of the year besides Limbo so far! :D love it SOOOOO much

Vinny your awesome but the worst team mate ever! wait for will damnit!

ahaha, he neeever stooops shoooting

" And....my computer can't play it.  I hate this machine.  "

" @Vonocourt said:

" I just got a "Eat, Pray, Love" ad on the top of the quicklook page. I got a chuckle out of it. "

Yep because a bunch of gamers are going to watch that. "

I'm surprised Snider isn't on this QL. 

Free ftw.

I will only play this game in first person. Roll to victory.

Me and my friends have become addicted to this game.

Wow Vinny's kind of bad about running away from his teammates.

Fun with friends til you get to the part with the huge alien scrotums and you start yelling
weird things as you punch them and suddenly realize your friends left already and then you get infected
and you hit Q and nothing makes sense and suddenly you're dead..
but fear not, you can still doodle on the mini map!

Intrusive prompts and cheevo monkey business need to die.

Oh yeah the UT Mod!!!! Man i remember this...Awesome! and i get to play it for free!

This game is awesome. I wish they had played and done some more research before doing this quicklook though. I mean, Vinny was level 1. Of course he doesn't know anything about the game yet.

This game is great.

Fun game, but clip management is nothing new. I do wish more games made use of it, especially in conjunction with Active Reload. Clip Management was one of the many many many features cut from Battlefield in the Bad Company series.
 
I can't tell if I prefer to play using a controller or M+K. If the game didn't freak out when using both I would do that.

You are basically describing Alien Breed there.

@Sharpshooter said:

" I get a serious Left 4 dead vibe from this. Hell it is left 4 dead but viewed from a different perspective, set in the future and with aliens instead of zombies. Other than those three things this game plays exactly like Left 4 dead "