Some of you may be familiar with the original Half-Life mod Natural Selection, it's back on a new engine in Natural Selection 2.

Unknown Worlds have today released a teaser trailer and alpha/beta opt-in pre-orders over at http://www.naturalselection2.com/

If you haven't heard of or seen it before, it's a Marines vs Aliens FPS/RTS. You can see the original NS here http://www.naturalselection2.com/ns

I played this game competitively for 6 years and believe it's one of the best FPS of all time and it's so closely related to my favourite RTS of all time Starcraft ^^

crazie-penguin

United States1253 Posts

May 28 2009 03:58 GMT

Oh this was one really interesting and fun game to play, it combined RTS and FPS elements mainly, but had some of that RPGish (actaully more like Dotaish) elements if you played as the Aliens. I remember some thought it would eventually rival counter strike, too bad that didn't happen though and the mod kinda died down a bit.

Glad to see that a revival may be underway

DrTJEckleburg

United States1080 Posts

May 28 2009 04:07 GMT

!!! I LOVED Natural Selection, what a fun game, so much variety on both sides, fun maps, really just a great game when you wanted to have a change of pace from CS 1.6 or DoD.

I think I'll go re-install NS now.

Infundibulum

United States2552 Posts

May 28 2009 04:09 GMT

Oh man i'm a huge fan of NS. Super high learning curve though, at least to play well on ns_ maps (co_ is for nubs but it's fun too)! Definitely will be keeping an eye out for this.

koreakool

United States334 Posts

May 28 2009 04:13 GMT

haha i loved ns, can't wait to play this again
"o nos!!"

Ftrunkz

Australia2474 Posts

May 28 2009 04:44 GMT

Oh sick, i thought they gave up on it tbh... That teaser trailer is fucking baller too. ;o.
Is this what's sparked the NS community coming back again koven? I've noticed a ton of pugs lately...

cgrinker

United States3824 Posts

May 28 2009 04:54 GMT

Holy shit. This is going to be fucking awesome.

Wait just saw its standalone. Like is it on the Source engine? I'm a little confused

KoveN-

Australia503 Posts

May 28 2009 04:58 GMT

On May 28 2009 13:44 Ftrunkz wrote:
Oh sick, i thought they gave up on it tbh... That teaser trailer is fucking baller too. ;o.
Is this what's sparked the NS community coming back again koven? I've noticed a ton of pugs lately...

Yep, alot of the old schoolers have come back to it and http://www.nsplayer.net are even hosting a last send-off tournament.

Nadagast

United States245 Posts

May 28 2009 06:12 GMT

Natural Selection was amazing!

I hope NS2 will be as good but I have my doubts, new engines aren't always better

lokiM

United States3407 Posts

May 28 2009 06:39 GMT

#10

wow this is finally out? lol, i remember reading about the new NS like 4 years ago

Tekin

2711 Posts

May 28 2009 06:40 GMT

#11

Yah NS2

SaveYourSavior

United States1071 Posts

May 28 2009 06:49 GMT

#12

Natural Selection was a great game

Despite the extremely unforgiving skill gap I still had butt loads of fun with this and some buddies

Hope NS 2 turns out great

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

May 28 2009 19:11 GMT

#13

NS was awesome but they probably only put up this pre order thing because they were running out of money. I'll throw down $20 or $40 when there's a definitive timetable for alpha/beta

Xusneb

Canada612 Posts

May 28 2009 20:08 GMT

#14

Hrm, I was hoping for a game that allowed you to simulate evolution through Darwin's elegant theory. Now that would be fun!

parkin

1079 Posts

May 28 2009 20:52 GMT

#15

NS1 is awesome. My expectations for the sequel are high.

You think its worth preordering for $40 just for a black marine armor?

Nightmarjoo

United States3360 Posts

May 28 2009 21:42 GMT

#16

Awesome, NS was great.

trickser

Germany139 Posts

May 28 2009 21:46 GMT

#17

Wow i loved this mod. Basebuilding was so fun as a commander and playing with aliens after the last upgrade was super fun too. God i need to play this.

ShadowDrgn

United States2497 Posts

May 28 2009 22:46 GMT

#18

This fall is too loaded with awesome games. I was never very good at NS but I played a ton of it anyway.

TheMango

United States1967 Posts

May 28 2009 22:54 GMT

#19

I used to play NS1 competitively with team sYn, but gradually lost interest as each version came out. I'll definitely try NS2, but hope their dev/play testing team gears it towards competitive/skill based play and not just for the pub masses.