Whether you play as one of the elite marine Frontiersmen or the vicious alien Kharaa, you must use unique strategies and your abilities to win. Marines buy weaponry and form persistent squads to find and destroy alien hives. Aliens can choose a wall-running Skulk, pudgy Gorge, flying Lerk, murderous Fade or gigantic Onos that can devour enemies whole.

Real-time Strategy
New strategy gameplay allows players to Command from overhead. Build structures anywhere, collect resources and research upgrades. The marines can build phase gates, sentry turrets and siege cannons to assault the enemy. Aliens can build upgrade chambers, evolve special abilities, lay eggs and plant traps.

Dynamic Environments
Levels change as you play. Spreading alien infestation deforms hallways and causes space station power failure, halting all lifts. Destroying a catwalk's supports causes it to fall, revealing a new route. Use a flamethrower to clear infestation, spin webs to block a passage or weld a bulkhead shut for a last defense. Every game is different.

Unlimited Variations
Flexible game rules and scripting allow you to create your own unique scenarios like "Colonist Rescue", "Alien vs. Alien" or anything else you can dream up. Free automatic updates keep the game fresh by adding new levels and abilities.

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This Halloween marks the 7th Anniversary of the first public release of the original Natural Selection! To celebrate, please find below the first screenshots from Unknown Worlds' Natural Selection 2. Natural Selection was the most popular independent mod for Half-life and is now being re-made as a commercial sequel which will be released on Steam in 2010.

7 YEARS OF NS! FIRST SCREENS OF NS2

MOD TOOLS OUT IN A MONTH!


The first screenshot shows a squad of marines attacking some wall-running Skulks and a flying Lerk. The second shows the view from a Skulk with his trademark "bite-cam". Skulks use vent systems to ambush, attack and confuse unsuspecting marines.

Natural Selection 2 Marine Hallway Natural Selection 2 Skulk Vent

Natural Selection 2 started life on the Source engine but is now running on our proprietary "Spark" engine. Spark allows small teams to make sophisticated games relatively quickly and without waiting. All changes to art, levels and even code are seen instantly in game.

We will be releasing the first piece of Spark (the level editor) in November to everyone that pre-orders NS2, so fans can start building levels. Unknown Worlds will be purchasing the best community levels to include in NS2. We release our other tools in the same manner before the game comes out as well.

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metzGRR
metzGRR Nov 5 2009, 12:02pm says:

I hope getting it on steam goes well.

I find it amazing how a couple of coders can create an engine like this, it looks better then crysis damnit.

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SonofEvil
SonofEvil Nov 2 2009, 8:49am says:

Thanx Man! Hope Everthing goes well...

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Naruto_Uzamaki
Naruto_Uzamaki Nov 1 2009, 2:01pm says:

You guys are making it for the Xbox 360?

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SonofEvil
SonofEvil Nov 1 2009, 9:54am says:

Hey is this Game Free? If not how Much would it be in english pounds? It looks Brilliant anyhow! :)

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Snazz
Snazz Nov 1 2009, 4:54pm replied:

You can pre-order it for 12 pounds, or 24 pounds if you want early Alpha access and black Marine armor.

Naturalselection2.com

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figalot
figalot Nov 1 2009, 5:02am says:

what r the chances that this will be on steam?

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Snazz
Snazz Nov 1 2009, 4:52pm replied:

They say a good chance: Naturalselection2.com

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Hakkon
Hakkon Oct 31 2009, 6:32pm says:

and ofc this game wont be for free...

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Snazz
Snazz Nov 1 2009, 12:49am replied:

Not in the near future no.

If you have issues purchasing MP games stick to BF Heroes and Quake Live ;)

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Snazz
Snazz Nov 1 2009, 7:26pm replied:

Currency converter - www.xe.com

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