Would I Rather Command Marines In Natural Selection 2 Or Bite Them In Half? Hmmm.


Wow, did Charlie Cleveland ever surprise me at PAX East. I don’t know the guy, and I didn’t pay much attention to the game his studio was showing off at the big show in Boston. Not at first.

Charlie’s game looked, at first glance, like just another team-based shooter.

I walked by a row of PCs running the game and nothing caught my eye. Later on, I was walking past the other side of Charlie’s booth. That’s when I saw the teeth. That’s when I saw what looked like a first-person shooter, except the player wasn’t looking down the barrel of a gun but through the jaws of a monster.

This is Natural Selection 2, a shooter, a brawler and a real-time-strategy game. It’s awesome.

Cleveland’s small studio, Unknown Worlds, has been working on Natural Selection 2 for a couple of years and will be releasing it this summer on Steam.

If you play as a Marine, you’re playing a first-person shooter.

If you play as a monter, your’e chomping through Marines or buzzing over them as some sort of flying critter that streams spores.

BUT! You can also play the game as a Marine or an alien commander, seeing the game overhead, doling out resources

Pre-order the game at NaturalSelection2.com.


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