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Alien Swarm is an update of an old Unreal Tournament 2004 mod, made by the original developers in their spare time during the development of Left 4 Dead and Portal 2. Oddly enough, it's not a first-person shooter!
Classic Aliens#
For some reason, rougher versions of the Aliens from before Valve hired the dev team are present and working in the game, including an Alien Queen boss.
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Zombie#
Full sourcecode and sound definitions for a zombie enemy (described in the source code as a "Swarm Civilian corrupted by SynTek chemicals into being a crazed zombie like thing") exist in the game. Unfortunately, there are no models or sounds, and it can't be spawned in-game. The code can be found in steamapps\common\alien swarm\sdk_src\game\client\swarm\asw_zombie.cpp and steamapps\common\alien swarm\sdk_src\game\server\swarm\asw_zombie.cpp once you've installed the mod SDK.
Heaven only knows how this didn't get in the game. Everybody knows that Valve luuuurve their zombies.
Leftover Text#
Pretty much all the UI strings from Left 4 Dead 2 are present, with a find/replace to replace all instances of "Left 4 Dead" with "Alien Swarm". This leads to some amusing unused strings...
"L4D2_Game_left4dead1" "Alien Swarm 1"
"L4D2_GamePlaying_left4dead1" "Playing Alien Swarm 1"
"L4D2360_NotJoinable_OtherTitle_left4dead1" "Playing Alien Swarm 1"
"L4D2360_JoinError_OtherTitle_left4dead1" "Your friend needs Alien Swarm\nso that you could play together\n"