It has come to my consideration that some individuals haven’t performed the Half-Life games, to which I can solely say: mate, I believe you may actually prefer it. Valve will quickly return to the collection after 13 years with Half-Life: Alyx in March, and forward of that they’re inviting everybody to compensate for the story to this point. From now till the launch of Alyx, the Half-Life games are free for everybody to play in full on Steam. You know, a few of these actually are fairly good.
“Half-Life: Alyx is set before the events of Half-Life 2 and the episodes, but the games share characters and story elements. The Half-Life: Alyx team believes that the best way to enjoy the new game is to play through the old ones, especially Half-Life 2 and the episodes, so we want to make that as easy as possible,” Valve defined in final night time’s announcement.
So from now till Alyx’s launch someday in March, everybody can play Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, and Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Valve are additionally throwing in ye olde enlargement packs made by different studios, Half-Life: Opposing Force and Half-Life: Blue Shift, which inform occasions of the primary game from new views – possibly much less related, however nonetheless good if you wish to get caught in. Valve’s weblog submit has hyperlinks for the lot.
Also free, as a result of causes, is Team Fortress Classic, a narratively-unrelated multiplayer game for in the event you actually wish to get trounced by individuals who’ve been taking part in the identical game for 21 years. And but Half-Life 2’s multiplayer isn’t included.
The Half-Life games might sound much less outstanding to newcomers after a long time of different studios following Valve’s instance, however even in the event you don’t click on with the primary I might nonetheless advocate making an attempt HL2. It’s a proper good’un, that, and a good jumping-on level. I sympathise with friends who’ve come to Half-Life late and bounced off the primary. Never let anybody let you know “YOU HAVE TO FINISH THIS, IT’S A CLASSIC.”
Half-Life: Alyx is coming to VR goggles in March. Our resident G-Man, Graham, has everything you need to know about it. Valve have casually mentioned that Half-Life three appears much less of a frightening prospect after Alyx, however I wouldn’t get too enthusiastic about that simply but.
