Natural Selection 2 - Action Hybrid Game

[Crazed Rabbit]

http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/



A combination FPS/RTS with aliens vs space marines.

A live tournament is being shown right now (4:00 PST) here: http://battlefy.com/tournament/116/#/watch

It's an independent game, a sequel to the famous half life mod, from a small team.

Great graphics and gameplay, though balance is a work in progress. Still, it provides some truly amazing moments of gaming.

Available on steam for preorder, it comes out on October 31st, ten years to the day after NS1 came out.

I've played this game more than every other video game combined this year.

If you're a fan of games requiring a lot of skill that go way beyond the standard COD-style soldiers shooting at soldiers, it has what you're looking for.

EDIT - I was originally going to make this post a while back, and call it "The promise and peril of Natural Selection 2" or something. Several months ago it was not well optimized and fps for many people were not good. That's mainly been fixed, but the main problem now is the asymmetric teams (marines have guns, aliens have different sorts of aliens that mainly bite or slash) have not been balanced by the developers. They built tweak on top of tweak but some of the basic mechanics (the health of aliens doesn't scale from the beginning to the endgame, while marines can research health and damage upgrades, for example) and it doesn't work that well.

CR