Now Valve have formally announced the upcoming Half-Life: Alyx, we will pore and coo over its first screenshots in shiny 4K decision. The VR unique (which Valve tell us actually does have to be VR, else “for all intents and purposes it would be an entirely different game”) is ready a number of years earlier than the return of Gordon Freeman and stars Alyx Vance as she helps construct resistance towards City 17’s alien occupiers.
It’s been twelve years for the reason that final game within the sequence and this one takes the motion to Valve’s Source 2 engine, so in the event you squint actual arduous it’s virtually such as you’re a remake of Half-Life 2 too.
The Combine Citadel continues to be underneath building on the time of HL: Alyx however already dominates the skyline and positively is a sight (click on screens to embiggen, obvs):
The surrounding buildings the place people dwell are wanting actual fancy too, although that’s extra 12 years of technological progress at Valve than higher residing situations in City 17.
Residences do look worse in methods, thoughts. What’s that goop over on the right-hand facet?
Something even goopier is within the sewers. This seems to be like a Headcrab zombie was snared by a Barnacle then consumed by spacefungus. It’s going to be an terrible fungus puppet, isn’t it?
It is nice that Alyx’s devices (and the avatars for our movement controllers) are apparently named Gravity Gloves. Looks just like the UI is on these wee shows too. And it’s nice that Alyx had these years earlier than Gordo arrived and began lugging round a Gravity Gun. Perhaps he swore off guide labour after what occurred the final time he pushed alien matter.
If you loved vandalising the computer systems in Dr. Kleiner’s lab, get a load of this providing of screens in Russel’s lab (in response to the filename). This display screen is barely in 1440p, not 2160p, as a result of that’s how Valve gave it to us, okay.
This is all broadly how I keep in mind City 17 wanting however, as I test Half-Life 2 screenshots at the moment, no, no it actually didn’t.
Half-Life: Alyx is coming to PC VR goggles in March 2020 via Steam.
