You have to physically duck down to take cover and peek your head around the corner.” “Everything from reloading the gun to positioning yourself to get line of sight. “Because of the physical nature of, everything just takes time,” Peters says. The medium likely made that necessary: twitchy first-person shooters typically don’t work well in VR, but a game like this is right at home. It smartly leans on Half-Life’s horror elements, shifting from run-and-gun action to more careful play in the style of a Resident Evil or Alien: Isolation. While Half-Life 2 was about moving quickly, shooting enemies and solving some physics puzzles, Alyx is a slower, more methodological, scarier game.
And it’s evidence there are still plenty of stories to tell in the Half-Life universe. “The Half-Life universe seems to work really well in the VR space,” says Peters. VR gave Peters and the rest of the Alyx team a chance to try something new with the beloved franchise, and the result is a deeply enjoyable, gripping, strange experience. “It’s a different game than people are expecting, but it’s a Half-Life game that’s continuing the story in a new way.” “It’s not Half-Life 3,” admits Valve level designer Corey Peters. Alyx may scratch that itch, but it’s a different beast. Anticipation long ago turned to bitterness, then resignation and, finally, a joke. Fans of the series have long waited, and are still waiting, for Half-Life 3. Alyx is Valve’s first Half-Life game since 2007, when Half-Life 2: Episode Two famously ended on a cliffhanger. But it’s been dormant for more than a decade. The Half-Life franchise, which launched in 1998, put Valve on the map. Set after the events of Half-Life, but before Half-Life 2, Alyx follows protagonist Alyx Vance as she attempts to rescue her father and uncover the secret of the villainous Combine’s newest weapon. It’s a virtual reality horror experience with tight combat and a frightening world that begs to be explored.
These are three moments from Half-Life: Alyx, the latest effort from developer and publisher Valve, now available for PC. Trembling, I put the bottle back on the shelf, grab the ammunition, and start breathing again. I’m not alone here, and I can’t, under any circumstances, let the other occupant know where I am, lest I meet an untimely end. I gasp, hold my breath, and grab the bottle just before it shatters on the ground. I lift the box to grab the ammo, and a bottle of wine I didn’t notice rolls off the shelf. Then, while making my way through a dark distillery, I spot some ammunition in an upside-down crate.
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