This is turning into a great weekend for people who love having fun for free. Combination first-person shooter and realtime strategy game Natural Selection 2 is not only having a free to play weekend on Steam, but is currently available for 50% off its regular price – bringing the game down to a rather decent $12.49 USD for the full game or $19.99 for the deluxe version. 4-packs are available for even more of a discount, for those of you who have been waiting to pressure your friends into joining up with you on this one. Natural Selection 2 features two distinct sides – horrible monsters versus the humans with guns – and comes with a variety of content-modification tools and what seems like some fantastic dev support. In fact, the devs have even put together a trailer for this weekend event – which you’ll see right after the cut.
I may have to give this one a shot this weekend. I’m getting a kind of “Killing Floor but with PVP multiplayer” vibe off of it, which is probably erroneous, but it still looks like there’s a lot of fun to be had. Take a look and judge for yourself.
Victor Grunn has been a gamer since the days of single-button joysticks and the Atari 800XL. When not lamenting the loss of the Ultima series or setting people on fire in Team Fortress 2, he's an aspiring indie game developer and freelance writer.
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