You Can Play Counter-Strike With Zombies for Free Right Now

The upcoming free-to-play Counter-Strike game with zombies has entered a short open beta period. You can try it out for yourself right now.

Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies' open beta is currently live on Steam. As an open beta, you don't have to do much to get in--if you have a Steam account, you can simply download it here.

You'll want to get your download going soon, as the beta is only available until September 25 at 9 AM PDT. If you aren't able to get some time in with the game before then, the full version launches sometime in early October. As a free-to-play game, you'll be able to check it without any real commitment on your part then, too.

The awkwardly titled Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies was announced early last month as a collaboration between Nexon and Valve. Built on the framework of Nexon's Counter-Strike Online game in Asia, Zombies includes standard Counter-Strike modes and new, zombie-themed modes for PvP and PvE-style action.

You can get a quick glimpse of the game in action in the teaser video above, but if you haven't seen screenshots previously, be forewarned: This does not look like a particularly modern game. That said, the system requirements are relatively low--a 2.13 GHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM, and GeForce 4 TI 4200 will do--making this something you can play on dated computers.

If you give Zombies a try, be sure to let us know what you think in the comments below.