That was enough to arouse anticipation at a new Half-Life game, which shows just how ready fans are for March. When asked about a potential Half-Life VR game in 2015, Valve programmer Jeep Barnett told Kotaku: "We're not saying no." We can't wait for people to experience this."Ī Half-Life VR game has been rumored about and hoped for since Valve demoed its VR technology, which would later become the HTC Vive and Valve Index headsets. "For that to come in the form of Half-Life feels like the culmination of a lot things we care a lot about: truly great games, cutting edge technology, and open platforms. "VR has energized us," Valve founder Gabe Newell said in a statement. Sadly theyre more interested in raking in cash with microtransactions. I had hope in my heart that Valve were gonna do something amazing with H元 and shock us all.
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Half-Life: Alyx gives millions of gamers a reason to jump into a new reality. Half life is one of my favourite game series of all time. Valve, Sony, HTC and Facebook-owned Oculus have all invested big in virtual reality, but the platform has yet to spawn a Super Mario 64-esque killer app that gamers need to experience. Half-Life 2 sold more than 12 million copies and is as highly revered as games get. Second, as a full-length game and not an expanded tech demo, it's by far the highest profile title to be released in VR. Regardless, Alyx is an official Half-Life game that's easy to get excited about. Fans have been waiting for literally over a decade for news on Episode 3, but nada. Half-Life: Alyx has created huge buzz for two reasons.įirst, It's the first Half-Life game since Half-Life 2: Episode 2 launched 12 years ago. The Springfield 3 is an unsolved missing persons case that began on June 7, 1992, when friends Suzanne 'Suzie' Streeter and Stacy McCall, and. First we are going to talk about the Springfield 3. Unsolved as per the usual, the case, or cases if you will, also has a crazy connection to one of our own here in the midnight train family.
In Half-Life: Alyx, you mount a resistance movement against the inter-dimensional threat.Tonight we are taking the train back to true-crimeville.By the time Half-Life 2 starts, Earth has already been conquered by an alien race called The Combine. In the original Half-Life, you play as Gordon Freeman, a survivor of an experiment gone wrong that accidentally opens an inter-dimensional portal. Read more: Want to play Half-Life: Alyx? Here's the VR gear that worksĪs fans guessed from the name, Half-Life: Alyx will follow Alyx Vance, a character introduced in 2004's Half-Life 2. That's a relief for those who worried that the game would be Index-exclusive. Alyx was designed from the ground up for VR and will work on all PC-based VR headsets, Valve said. Everyone else will have to pay $59 on Steam. If you own Valve's Index VR headset, you'll get Half-Life: Alyx for free. The good news? It's a complete, full-length Half-Life game, and eager fans won't have to wait much longer to play it. The recently announced VR title is set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Valve revealed Thursday. Half-Life: Alyx isn't Half-Life 3, or Half-Life 2: Episode 3. Half-Life: Alyx is a proper Half-Life game, but it's not Half-Life 3.įirst, the bad news.