Valve has announced that Half-Life: Alyx will release on March 23rd. In order to celebrate this announcement, the team has also released some new screenshots that you can find below. Half-Life: Alyx will be using the Source 2 Engine and these screenshots showcase what you can expect from it.
In case you weren’t aware of, Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. The game tells the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2.
“Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival. The Combine’s control of the planet since the Black Mesa incident has only strengthened as they corral the remaining population in cities. Among them are some of Earth’s greatest scientists: you and your father, Dr. Eli Vance.”
In Half-Life: Alyx, players will immerse themselves in deep environmental interactions, puzzle solving, world exploration, and visceral combat. Players will lean to aim around a broken wall and under a Barnacle to make an impossible shot. Players will also rummage through shelves to find a healing syringe and some shotgun shells.
Furthermore, players can manipulate tools to hack alien interfaces. For example, they can toss a bottle through a window to distract an enemy, or rip a Headcrab off their face and throw it out the window.
Enjoy!
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Looks nice! Will buy this for WMR
Every pixel in these screenshots seems to have a personality of their own. You can clearly see this is going to be a special game.
becareful we have seen alot of bullshit trailers and scrrenshots in the past from various devs ! ( watch dogs, Witcher, The Division …)
Looks decent, and I hope it turns out to be great. Would be nice to see that Valve can still make great games.
Couldn’t care less for VR myself. I’m sure this will get a regular old release after Valve uses it as its “VR testing gauge” anyways. I’ll try it out then.
One step closer on getting a vr headset and i don’t even know it yet..
Looks really good, like how i always imagined the next gen source to look like. Shame i wont get to play it, i got 0 interest in VR, the way VR plays, the way i cant use my glasses, how much it costs, how hard it is to test here, how hard it is to run it at decent frame rates and much more. VR set here costs as much as a REALLY good card or a decent laptop. I just dont see myself spending that much on that. If i was rich… yea, probably.
I would have gotten this game 250%, now i might get it in like 5 or 10 years (MIGHT).
When VR is dirt cheap and when computers cost nothing to run games at 144 fps.
You are wrong about every single one of your points. You can use your glasses. It’s easy to run at decent frame rates with a decent gpu especially now. And there are very cheap headsets that are great out right now. Just work for a week and don’t waste your money on going out to eat or garbage and boom you can afford a headset.
I know about the glasses, but the ones i wear are huge, but who knows? They might still fit in.
The price point stands, there is nothing cheap about them. In our stores, they cost a fortune and i sure aint getting a bad one just cuz i wanna try it. Either i get a good setup or i dont bother. GPU’s like 2070 here cost almost as much as a cheap car. A CAR, altho.. i wouldn’t get a car thats priced that much. So yea, tech costs a lot more here, i aint wrong about that (almost as bad as Brazil, or well not really but at times.)
It’s cool how they added more detail and kept the ‘source’ look and didn’t go as photo-realistic as possible with the art style and new engine. That middle ground is such a fine line to walk as it easily looks weird one way or the other, they judged it perfectly! I’d be hyped if I could ever play it.
The ground textures look higher res than everything else and a cute object error top left.
Actually, it’s Dishonored it reminds me of in art style. Same artist (originally) and Dishonored games were more detailed than original source engine 1 games as they came later obviously. So HalfLife3 would have looked like a lot like Dishonored back in the day.
There are still talented people at VALVE thats for sure.
Damn, this is one helluva good looking game. Too bad VR is still too expensive in my country. Will have to wait a bit to play this.
Look for a cheap Windows Mixed Reality headset like the Samsung Odyssey+. They are currently around $230.
You call that cheap?
Very VERY cheap.
Its electronics, not potatoes, for electronics that price is cheap.
Are we looking at the same images.
The quality of world textures has this sense of detail while being fairly simple..not too cluttered! The character models, objects and weapons look amazing!
Damn, I really don’t have time to play too much these days, so very hard to justify buying a VR headset! I owned a Oculus Rift when it first came out and after a few months it was collecting dust…but now starting to have second thoughts. All the really good VR games that have released recently…The Walking Dead, Boneworks, and soon HL:Alyx.
Why is it so hard to find good texturing in videogames nowadays?
It’s like everyone just adds some half assed blurry meshes and adds some sh**ty polygons and is done with it, even the most graphically intensive games do this and only some exceptions like Kingdom Come and even Modern Warfare actually deliver.
This is on a whole other level though
just might invest in a cheap a*s vr headset to play this. love the art/graphics/style
i dont trust this promotional materials any more ! they apply tons of effects and filters to make there games look good, and the final product is disapointing
Looks generic as hell yet everyone is so excited just because it’s a Valve game.
Geez that’s look georgous!
Couldn’t stand those monsters in “2D” so f**k VR version.
I haven’t finished too. Stopped after Episode 2 and haven’t touched Episode 3 yet.