July 2010

[JPController]

July 17,2010

Coming soon a free game made by Valve, A third person shooter game called Alien Swarm it is a game that involves bug hunting (No Xenomorph pun intended) it also is featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With a squad of four I.A.F. Marine classes. You can plan your attack using a variety of unlockable cache of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Mow 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.

Featuring a variety of achievements

Also:

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.

* Tactical, 4 player co-op action game with a top-down perspective
* Complete game code and mod tools
* Unlock persistent items by gaining levels
* Over 40 weapons and equipment with countless loadout configurations
* 4 unique classes and 8 unique characters
* Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats
* 64 achievements
* Tile-based map generation tool
* Powered by Source and Steam

Watch out AvP, here's comes the swarm!

What are you waiting for? Check it out! Btw did they mention its going to be free?

Links: Alien Swarm
Tags: Alien, Swarm, Xenomorph, AvP, Valve, July, 2010

[JPController]

Rebellion wants to continue its support for AvP

Posted earlier this morning on the Steam AvP forum By one of the Rebellion reps a statement pertaining to the recent drop in support for AvP for the consoles and touching slightly on the subject of the PC version as well, providing clarity on some of the feebleminded moves done either by a bad marketing idea by SEGA or a bunch of yes men at Fox pertaining to some issues that have been hurting the AvP Community for 2010, the biggest issue being the lack of the release of the Software Development Kit (SDK), charging for maps for multi-player PC version and the lack of community acknowledgment, its been bad business all around, however with this statement might bring some hope:

Rebellion would like to keep supporting the title on all formats for as long as we are allowed. However, ultimately the license belongs to Fox and the game is published by Sega, and any decisions rest with them.

So since release, a lot of the community has been pinning the blame on Rebellion for these reasons, but now with this being cleared, this shows that the true die hard fans and new gamers playing AvP where to address this issue at Fox or Sega and hopefully, turn Aliens vs Predator into a strong candidate for game of the year.

All we can do is wait and hope.






Writers Personal Note:

As a fan of the Aliens and Predator Franchises myself, I too had high hopes for this game, I thought that since they were releasing Aliens Vs. Predator on Steam, they would follow some great examples that Valve has shown us with their games. In fact as of the recent release of Alien Swarm has shown, you can make a game and have Free DLC and a strong community as well. Anything can happen between now and later, but if your really going to show some respect to the franchise, do what the community asks. At least consider it...
One more thing, to clarify to avoid any possible confusion, I'm talking about DLC being charged for PC, not console, I have no issue with console games being charged for DLC, in fact its quite fine.


Links: Site B, AvP Steam forum, Sega Forum
Tags: Aliens Vs. Predator, 2010, July 21, SDK, Sega, Fox, Rebellion, DLC