Natural Selection 2: Combat
NS2: Combat pits aliens against space marines in a fast paced, action-packed struggle for survival. Part twitch-shooter, part stealth crawler, design your own tech tree, choose your own style of play, and…
Natural Selection 2: Combat is an indie developed by Faultline Games, released 5 September 2014 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Natural Selection 2: Combat is
Natural Selection 2: Combat is an indie game developed by Faultline Games and released in 2014. It was published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Spark.
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NS2: Combat pits aliens against space marines in a fast paced, action-packed struggle for survival. Part twitch-shooter, part stealth crawler, design your own tech tree, choose your own style of play, and control one of seven different life forms. Try unique abilities such as 'Devour', where the largest alien eats her enemies, or pilot the hulking mechanised 'Exo Suit' and punch aliens in the face. NS2: Combat offers ranked servers supporting casual and competitive play.Choose your play style Build your dream loadout with a slew of unique abilities and specialisations. Become a jetpack-wielding, grenade-launching marine; or a heavily armored, super-charged alien who enjoys eating marines…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction.
How it was received
Natural Selection 2: Combat holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Natural Selection 2: Combat launched on 5 September 2014, within three weeks of Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Bayonetta 2 and Destiny. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Bayonetta 2, Destiny.
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