Seven years ago to this very day, uber-Half-Life mod Natural Selection was released. Man! Aliens! Man vs aliens, in a real-time-strategy-in-an-FPS-perspective kinda way! In that time, it's become something of a landmark in terms of just how far you can stray from the source technology (pun not necessarily intended), just how successful a group of a have-a-go home designers can be, and quite how much prescribed concepts of first-person-shootage can be pushed. Developers Unknown Worlds Entertainment are gearing up for the insanely-anticipated release of the standalone sequel (of which the first and second super-shiny images of this post come from - click to embiggen), whose birth depends hugely on how much pre-order interest they can drum up. In other words, if you're excited about NS2, you should totally pre-order it. It's going to be a fine and splendid day in PC land when it finally walks our way.
Right now though, given it's NS1's anniversary day, we poked Unknown Worlds' Game Director Charlie Cleveland into providing a little insight into how this milestone mod came to be...
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