However, due to the fact that the second half of the game takes place on the unknown planet Pandora, there is not much reference to the Half-Life series at all. The majority of the Half-Life 2 content is based on the storyline of the first game, as most of the main characters appear in all episodes. There, Freeman fights his way through the facility, while battling against Combine units and battling the evil humans who want to take over the world using advanced technologies. This allows him to travel to another part of the facility, where he meets up with the resistance group known aperture. As the situation worsens, Freeman sends for help but is stopped at a gate guarded by Combine troops. The story of Half-Life 2 follows around two years after the events of the first game, as Freeman becomes trapped inside a Combine stronghold, while the Combine's scientists continue to work on their new project. Freeman is joined by his allies, including a mysterious girl named Alyx, who also survived the Combine attack. It chronicles the origins of the character Gordon Freeman, who must rescue the planet Earth from the evil scientists and agents of the Combine, which want to use the Earth for their own benefit. The first episode in the series, Half-Life 2: Episodes from Liberty City, is not set in the Half-Life universe. Unlike the first Half-Life game, it incorporates more shooting, narrative, and puzzle elements, and adds new features like actual physics and vehicles. Hammer, Valve’s level authoring tool, has been updated with all of the game’s virtual reality gameplay tools and components.Half-Life 2: Episodes from Liberty City is the second installment in the Half-Life series, developed and published by Valve Corporation. Rip a Headcrab off your face and throw it out the window.Ī set of Source 2 tools for building new levels is included with the game, enabling any player to build and contribute new environments for the community to enjoy through Half-Life: Alyx’s Steam Workshop. Toss a bottle through a window to distract an enemy. Manipulate tools to hack alien interfaces. Rummage through shelves to find a healing syringe and some shotgun shells. Lean to aim around a broken wall and under a Barnacle to make an impossible shot. Immerse yourself in deep environmental interactions, puzzle solving, world exploration, and visceral combat. VR was built to enable the gameplay that sits at the heart of Half-Life.
Valve’s return to the Half-Life universe that started it all was built from the ground up for virtual reality. Eli Vance.Īs founders of a fledgling resistance, you’ve continued your clandestine scientific activity-performing critical research, and building invaluable tools for the few humans brave enough to defy the Combine.Įvery day, you learn more about your enemy, and every day you work toward finding a weakness. Among them are some of Earth’s greatest scientists: you and your father, Dr. The Combine’s control of the planet since the Black Mesa incident has only strengthened as they corral the remaining population in cities. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
It’s 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. Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series.