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HL: Natural Selection

Natural Selection is an up and coming mod for Half-Life, It is the traditional team based format, however instead of Red Vs Blue or Terrorists Vs Counter-Terrorists, it is Marines Vs Aliens.

The Marines must keep their cool and work together to assault an alien-infested spacecraft or colony. The Marines’ ultimate goal is to eradicate every trace of the Aliens by destroying the Aliens’ Hives so that the Alien team cannot respawn. The Marines also have a commander. The commander ’sees’ the battlefield from a unique top-down real time strategy style interface and is responsible for the smooth running of the ‘clean-up’ operation. He or she can achieve this by deploying structures, medkits, defences and ammunition. The structures and turrets are placed by the commander but team-members must construct these structures for them to become operational.

The Aliens on the other hand must drive the invaders away by eliminating any Marine bases and troops they come across. All aliens start off as a basic unit, a Skulk, and as they acquire more hives and gather greater resources they can evolve in to more powerful and more deadly alien creatures. Skulks can even evolve into ‘builder aliens’ or Gorges which can move around the map tapping into resource points and building alien structures and defences.

This mod puts lots of emphasis on teamwork and tactics. If your team is pulling together as one, then you will most likely win. This is what makes Natural Selection one of the most tense, thrilling and atmospheric mods ever to grace our computer screens.