505 Games Announces The Swarm for Xbox 360

February 3, 2010

505 Games Announces The Swarm for
Xbox 360

Players Must Balance Enticing
Alien Skills Against Preserving Their Own Humanity in Action-Packed Third-Person
Shooter for Xbox 360

505 Games U.S. and Buka Studios
today announced a May 2010 release date for The Swarm, an action-packed
third-person shooter that drops players into the middle of a nuclear fallout
after in alien invasion in Moscow, Russia. Targeted for release on Xbox 360, The
Swarm forces players to choose between absorbing alien DNA – and powerful skills
— at the cost of gradually become a monster, or retaining their own humanity to
fight off the alien invaders.

In The Swarm, players navigate an
alien-infested Red Square in Moscow, shown under the effects of a nuclear
catastrophe. The game features a unique adaptive combat system, where players
awaken in an alien laboratory and will choose throughout the game to either
enhance their performance with alien DNA that increases attributes like stamina
and health, or retain their humanity – and standard abilities – to fight the
invading forces.

While searching for an antidote to
cure their allies against the alien mutation, players will solve DNA mini-games
and puzzles for the option to absorb new abilities and become more adept at
fighting tougher enemies. Players can then build and change alien DNA chains to
improve different abilities like harvested energy from the bodies of defeated
enemies, increased regeneration rate, enhanced vision or develop physical
manifestations with access to energy weapons and sharp claws. Players can use a
variety of weapons-including firearms, clubs, plasma projectors and grenades-for
melee or ranged combat against enemies.

"This is not your standard
third-person shooter," said Adam Kline, president of 505 Games U.S. "The game’s
adaptive combat allows players to mold their characters, draw them into the
alien takeover and force them to make tough decisions typically not found in
other shooter games."

Players will encounter The Swarm for
Xbox 360 in May 2010.