Full of daring ideas and crammed with asymmetry. An alien team made up of wall-crawling, creep-spreading, wing-flapping, and rhino-sized monstrosities square up against turret-building, flame-throwing, body-armored marines. Both teams are captained by a commander who plays NS2 through an RTS lens, and the way this system frees grunts of the burden of thinking strategically is genius—in the hands of a good tactician, you feel liberated to focus on executing orders in NS2’s mazey cooridors. Visually, it’s top-notch: built on a custom engine that gives it a unique sheen, dripping with texture quality and gooey particle effects that convey the spore-based biology of the alien side.