Resource gathering and building style will look familiar to players of the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series, and the game won't be foreign to anyone with experience in the genre. Technically Lambda Wars is a mod for Alien Swarm-a free-to-play top-down shooter Valve released in 2010-but that game's engine has been overhauled and made into a fresh real-time strategy game here. Garrys Mod is a sandbox game by Facepunch built with Valves Source engine. But this is more than a Half-Life-themed skin slapped on another RTS engine. Weapons - impulse 101: You get all the Half Life 2 weapons.
Because the game is a mod built in Valve's Source engine, it's completely free.Īt its core, Lambda Wars follows conventional RTS wisdom: Build a base, gather resources, train an army, annihilate your opponent. Meticulously developed by Half-Life community member Filip Victor, Half-Life 2: Update offers both long-time fans and first time players the most visually advanced, stable, and fully-featured version of Half-Life 2 to date in one free. After surviving the Greenlight process earlier this year, Lambda Wars was released on Steam last week. 2004s Half-Life 2 was a landmark for PC gaming and the First Person Shooter, setting the standard for immersion, animation, and physics-based play for years. The amazing mod puts a real-time strategy game within the world of Half-Life 2, pitting human Rebels against the alien Combine race in a battle for survival. Lamba Wars answers the question of what happens when you build a real-time strategy game in one of the most celebrated, beloved game universes ever created.
