{"id":76170,"date":"2014-11-04T19:43:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=76170"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:22:51","slug":"hands-on-with-evolves-big-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hands-on-with-evolves-big-alpha\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands on with Evolve&#8217;s Big Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When 2K Games debuted Evolve in February 2014, a lot of people were curious what Turtle Rock Studios&#8217;, the team behind <a title=\"Left 4 Dead for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/left-4-dead.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Left 4 Dead<\/a>, next game would be. Evolve sends four Hunters against one giant monster<strong> <\/strong>in a<strong> asymmetrical multiplayer game.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, 2K Games hosted a short alpha called <strong>Big Alpha<\/strong> that was playable on PC and Xbox One. There were glitches with the PlayStation 4 alpha, but players were able to jump in later and get a demo.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a title=\"Alex Beech on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/software-reviewer\/alex-beech\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex<\/a>&#8216;s impressions of Evolve&#8217;s Big Alpha.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Evolve for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/evolve.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evolve<\/a> releases <strong>February 10<\/strong>, 2015 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"How to play Minecraft for free\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/how-to-play-minecraft-for-free\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to play Minecraft for free<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Over 900 classic arcade games are now available from The Internet Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/over-900-classic-arcade-games-are-now-available-from-the-internet-archive\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Over 900 classic arcade games available from The Internet Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Watch the hilariously bad funeral scene from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/watch-the-hilariously-bad-funeral-scene-from-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the hilariously bad funeral scene from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a title=\"Chris on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/chrislikesrobot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@chrislikesrobot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When 2K Games debuted Evolve in February 2014, a lot of people were curious what Turtle Rock Studios&#8217;, the team behind Left 4 Dead, next game would be. Evolve sends four Hunters against one giant monster in a asymmetrical multiplayer game. Over the weekend, 2K Games hosted a short alpha called Big Alpha that was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hands-on-with-evolves-big-alpha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hands on with Evolve&#8217;s Big Alpha&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-76170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329886,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76170\/revisions\/329886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76170"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=76170"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=76170"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=76170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}