This new VR game mixes things up by putting you in Alyx's shoes, years before the events of HL2 and before Freeman's return to the series' universe.

The sequel picked up an uncertain number of years later, with a network of researchers and resistance fighters working to take out the Combine's invasion and domination of Earth, in spite of a human-fronted organization that capitulated to the Combine's control.īoth of those games starred Gordon Freeman as a silent protagonist. Instead of stepping forward in time, HLA will rewind to the period between the first two mainline Half-Life games.įor those who have lost track of the series' timeline, the original 1998 game saw the Black Mesa research institute loose an alien race (the Combine) onto our planet. And it's a full single-player campaign of brand-new VR content, though our sources can't confirm how long the game will actually take to beat.įurther Reading Recent Valve VR update contains hidden Half-Life demo codeThe game's name confirms what has been loudly rumored for months: that you will play this game from the perspective of Alyx Vance, a character introduced in 2004's Half-Life 2. In HLA's case, it's because this is a prequel, not a sequel. Today's announcement has confirmed a hard truth: Valve's game development teams still cannot count to three.

Today's leak includes a revised release window of March 2020, which our sources indicate is likely-but also subject to change due to the phenomenon that fans call ' Valve Time.' This is, in fact, the oft-teased 'VR game' mentioned by Valve over the past few years and the one we had been told to expect by the end of 2019. Half-Life: Alyx is a brand-new game in the Half-Life universe designed exclusively for PC virtual reality systems (Valve Index, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality). We should probably begin with the game's name, as revealed in a leaked Game Awards 2019 presentation and confirmed hours later by an official post from Valve. We're here to connect the dots between what has been announced, what has been rumored, and what we've heard from well-placed sources. As an entirely new game from the series' creators at Valve. For a certain class of video game fan, no news could be bigger than today's: Half-Life is back.

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