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Creative Arts and Media => TV and Video => Video and Traditional Games => Topic started by: Ares the Ram on July 20, 2010, 09:48:32 PM
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homygosh, this game rocks! its like smash tv but with 4 player co-op and flamethrowers and miniguns and sentry guns and aliens and oh yea its FREE! yea thats right, I said FREE! I even capitalized every letter to emphasize how awesome this is. lotsa alien bug shootin' tho, so prolly not for kids. Kablaghm!
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It's not really like Smash TV. It's more like a mix of Left4Dead and Aliens (the film). It's made by two guys, who are part of Valve, and as short as it is, there is hidden code that shows a lot of plans that are in the works for this.
Right now, the campaign is the same every time, which is why they have given all the development tools straight away for people to make custom campaigns, but if you put in the right commands, you can get the AI Director from Left4Dead2 working. It's unbalanced at the moment which is why it's not a proper feature, but the tech is there so I'm guessing it will be applied fully later on.
As well as this is a tile based level generator, meaning procedurally generated levels created in the same amount of time as any other level would take to load. And it will always be different...
Now if we put both together, we could have alien swarms AND level design controlled by the AI director who bases its decisions on the performance of the players, in order to get the most dramatic and exhilirating result.
I think, as it is right now, it's a great free game, with more depth and sophistication than most retail games of this genre provide... but what seems planned for this, could make it the best free game ever.
And the weird thing is, this was a small side project. Valve pretty much made this in their spare time. Its practically just showing off, that they can make this almost on a whim... although granted it did take two years but at the same time the two guys working on it were working on L4D2 and the Portal2 co-op campaign.
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Sounds like a few other games I've played, I'll probably download it later :P
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I've downloaded it, mainly for the TF2 hat, but have not had much luck yet :(
I think my Laptop can't handle it, as it was lagging slightly in an offline match. Oh well, never mind. I still like the game though...
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