Half-Life: Alyx
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. 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. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
Half-Life: Alyx is a vr, fps and horror game
developed and published by Valve.
Released on March 23rd 2020 is available only on Windows
in 28 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Greek, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Romanian, Thai, Turkish, Finnish and Swedish.
It has received 94,689 reviews of which 93,070 were positive and 1,619 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.7 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 58.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 1060 / RX 580 - 6GB VRAM
- VR Support: SteamVR
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Just completed the long-awaited playthrough of Half-Life: Alyx , and I'm sharing some fresh impressions. Alyx serves as a bridge between the games of what we might call the past (from a 2020 perspective) and the future. It shows us what games can and will be. That very first scene is breathtaking—you’re standing on a rooftop in City 17 , and you’re overwhelmed. You lose yourself for a good half hour, sketching on the wall with markers. And when you’re hiding from Jeff , literally holding your hand over your mouth (both in the game and in real life), your heart pounds. You’re terrified to even turn your head, let alone make a sound. When you finally get to the “ Vault ,” you’re having the time of your life, using your hands as if they’re a gravity gun. Here’s what I’ll remember forever: [*]The Strider battle. The power of VR and controllers hits its peak here. Reload, aim, fire; reload, aim, fire. Amazing. [*]The space and time distortions in the final chapter are spectacular. I wanted to stretch that moment, jump from the ceiling to the walls, manipulating objects like magnets. [*] Jeff . Good ol' Jeff. You just have to get used to him, as Alyx rightly notes. [*] The music and visuals are top-notch. I loved the deep crimson hues, the palette of greens and blacks that appear when you’re disconnecting the floating “ Vault ” from its gravitational tethers. All this alone is enough to give the game an 8.5 out of 10. However, there are some downsides, mostly related to the game design. [*]The puzzles. Linking up the electricity lines behind walls becomes annoying and tedious. You start sighing heavily, looking for yet another junction to connect the wires. At this point, Alyx stops being a game and starts feeling like a monotonous, dull task. The chapter with the electric dog—where you need to extract energy to advance—is a slog. It’s one of those sections you never want to replay. I watched a playthrough on YouTube where someone installed a mod that auto-solves the puzzles. I get it. [*]Lack of melee weapons. The game turns into an endless episode of Ravenholm with constant ammo rationing. Except in Ravenholm , you had sawblades and a gravity gun. [*]The environments. The initial excitement fades into a feeling of “closeness.” There are almost no open spaces, just occasional courtyards. Soon enough, the sense of grandeur gives way to a local, confined vibe. Perhaps these downsides are simply design choices to extend the game’s length. But the game doesn’t need artificial padding—you’d return to it anyway. This game has been a long time coming (thanks to VR), and the experience is truly indescribable. Once again, Valve has set an incredibly high bar for game creation. Alyx stands as a full-fledged chapter in the series, both a prequel and a continuation. The impact on culture and Half-Life fans is immeasurable. The verdict: play it. Absolutely play it.
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I remember partway through my first playthrough, I was hit by a wave of sadness, as I realised I must not have very much game left to experience, and the sombre knowledge that I'd never play another VR game that could possibly stand a chance of measuring up to it. That feeling passed, as it turns out I was only a quarter of the way through at that point in time, but the latter sentiment has held true. Nothing could compare. Half-Life Alyx is far from a vertical slice or a tech demo; it's a full fledged AAA experience that reminds you of when AAA meant something more than "a big company made it". Further than that, it's built to take full advantage of everything VR has to offer, and spares no expense giving you the experience in the most polished format imaginable. I said it then and I'll say it now, HL:A is the best game I've ever played. I don't say this lightly. Devil May Cry 3 and 5 hold special places in my heart, as do the Halo and Ace Attorney trilogies, and friends of mine know how badly I'll shill Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Burnout Paradise. Doom, Steins;Gate, Monster Hunter, Left 4 Dead, there's an ocean of amazing games out there that belong in the category of peak, and among them, stands Half-Life Alyx, towering over them. An experience you truly cannot get anywhere else, and one that I highly doubt can ever be replicated. A game that playing with a mouse & keyboard would be doing an immense disservice to yourself. I cannot in good conscience recommend VR as a platform, but should you ever find yourself wanting, or have an opportunity with a weekend at a friend's house, please. Do yourself a favour. Play this game.
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--{ Graphics }--- You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☑ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☑ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 ☑ 100
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This game ruined VR for me as no other experience comes close. Just some things that happened while playing this game : -Got a near heart-attack and raised my hands into the air as guns were pointed at me while I was unarmed. -I was on my knees and tried to lift myself by putting my hand on a coffee table that only existed virtually. -Nearly fell as I tried to lean back against a wall that only existed virtually. -Very carefully stepped on a ledge because I feared a large fall. If you have any VR headset, buy this game.
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--{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☑ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☑ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10
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