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If you have been playing or even thought about purchasing the first person shooter Necrovision, you might want to hold off. The game's publisher 1C Company has announced this weekend that the multiplayer support for the game will be shut down on March 15. That's less than two years after the game was released in the US via Aspyr Media.

The horror-themed first person shooter was developed by The Farm 51 and it used a modified version of the graphics engine that was first used in Painkiller. 1C Company has said that Necrovision: Lost Company, a prequel that was released in 2010, will continue to have multiplayer support.

[Via Blue's News]

It would not be a President's Day without some kind of nice sale offer and today Steam gives us two ways to get a free game if you pre-order an upcoming title. First, folks who pre-order Relic's upcoming Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Chaos Rising will get to download the PC port of Saints Row 2 for free.

Yet another pre-order offer launched today is for Necrovision: Lost Company, a sequel to 2009's first person shooter from developer The Farm 51 and publisher 1C Company. If you put down some money for the game now you can download the original Necrovision game for free. As always if you already own the free games or just don't want them you can give the Steam CD key to a pal.

The recently announced NecroVisioN: Lost Company covers events that take place before the original NecroVisioN (released earlier this year) begins, using an old school "shoot everything that moves with big guns" horror FPS style. However, in this prequel, players will jump into the completely new role of a WWI German soldier who finds himself caught up in a war between demons and zombies, eventually leading a war against them himself.

Lost Company isn't expected to release until the early half of 2010, but the demo for the original NecroVisioN can be downloaded here.

Download HD NecroVisioN: Lost Company Trailer (81 MB)
Download NecroVisioN Demo (972 MB)

1C Company continues to release continuations of their many different game franchises. The latest such release is NecroVision: Lost Company, a prequel to this year's supernatural-themed WWI shooter from developer The Farm 51. The prequel has the player control one of the German soldiers who fights the supernatural evil only to become the Necromancer that the player had to defeat in the original game.

Look for 10 new single player levels in the game along with six new weapons, new weapon upgrades, and new drivable vehicles like the FT17 tank and Halberstadt CL.II airplane. There's also a new multiplayer mode: Gas Attack (and we hope it's not what we are thinking about right now) and some improved visual effects and graphics upgrades. Look for the game to come out in the first quarter of 2010.