Genre - Action
Metascore - 77%
Developer - Valve
Other Games by Developer - Left 4 Dead 2, Half-Life 2
My Playtime - 5.0 hours
As a Valve title, you
probably know where this review is heading. Alien Swarm is a
top-down 4-player co-op shooter which pits your team against
grotesque aliens with a number of objectives. The game is relatively
nicely balanced as long as you have a few friends along for the ride,
and given that its absolutely free, there's no excuse not to. The
standard campaign is only a few levels long but there are some
fantastic community maps which add to the lifespan significantly.
While probably not as good as TF2, Alien Swarm is still
par-for-the-course from Valve.
My Score - 7/10
Also it has a bunch of cool weapons to unlock. And it fares much better as other top-down-shooters i played like dead horde or bunch of heroes.
ReplyDeleteJudging a game that is absolutely free sure ain't easy, especially as the fun you have in Alien Swarm depends on your teammates to a certain degree and it has almost no singleplayer.
Nevertheless it is a good game and great fun to play with friends.