It appears that the Half-Life 3 fan game, Project Borealis, is back from the dead. A couple of days ago, the team behind it shared a new teaser trailer from its Prologue. Not only that, but this Prologue will be released in Fall 2024.
From what I know, Project Borealis will be still using Unreal Engine 4. And while we’ve seen some other HL3 games, this one aims to be one of – if not THE – best. The game will be based on the Epistle 3 script published by Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw.
The last time we heard about Project Borealis was in 2020. So, it might have taken a while but we’ll finally be able to play a demo of it really soon.
Back in October 2018, the team released a tech demo for Project Borealis. Sadly, though, this tech demo is no longer available for download.
Again, I’m pleasantly surprised by this teaser trailer. After all, I thought this HL3 fan game was silently canceled. But apparently, I was wrong.
As said, the team will only release the game’s Prologue in Fall 2024. Right now, there is no ETA on when the full game will come out. I also don’t know whether they will be able to complete it. I don’t want to be harsh but when we get a Prologue after 4 whole years, you can kind of expect this to be the only thing we’ll get. That is unless the devs use this demo to expand their team.
Naturally, I’ll be sure to share a download link for the demo the moment it becomes available. Until then, enjoy the following trailer!
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ok, you CAN'T start a headline that way.
It is super easy to start making a game nowadays due to the democratisation of game engines, math libraries, 3rd party middleware, asset libraries, 3D scanners, etc.
In theory, gaming should be super cheap. It is the hardware monopolies like Nvidia that are preventing this.
Is that helicopter art from Battle LA movie XD?
I quite like the furry headcrabs, it fits with the snow theme.
The look so cute! 😀
Agreed.
But oh well…
It's something!
It is super easy to start making a game nowadays due to the democratisation of game engines, math libraries, 3rd party middleware, asset libraries, 3D scanners, etc.
In theory, gaming should be super cheap. It is the hardware monopolies like Nvidia that are preventing this.
Nowadays gaming has become super cheap, considering that the majority of the world's population is satisfied by playing free mobile games on their smartphones.
get a job AMD fangirl
I can clearly see the DitherTemporalAA in the hair… I wish developers would stop doing that…
BTW: I remember seeing some evidence that they were porting things over to Unreal Engine 5. I don't know if they ever finished it or not.
Also, the project wasn't dead. They just weren't posting announcements, and were looking for new team members.
https://media3.giphy.com/media/qbmjPU9cdaKkM/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
>Teaser about HL3
>Shows Ravenholm
WTF
I recently Replayed HL2 VR, and to my shock its Proto-woke( it pains me to say) evil whytes, stronk mystery meat wahmen protag(alyx), STEM magic-american good guys(her dad). it could have been made today. I was shocked how far back the degen was started( at the time, we were so naive). Still I want more HL, TY john