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Half-Life: Alyx is a 2020 virtual reality (VR) first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. It was released for Windows and Linux , with support for most PC-compatible VR headsets . Set five years before Half-Life 2 (2004), players control Alyx Vance on a mission to seize a superweapon belonging to the alien Combine .
Half-Life 2 and the games following it introduce a new, more focused cast of characters fighting the oppressive Combine Empire. This includes Alyx Vance, a prominent member of the Resistance and the daughter of former Black Mesa scientist Eli Vance. Alyx is the protagonist of Half-Life: Alyx.
Valve's first game was Half-Life, a first-person shooter released in 1998. [2] It sold over nine million retail copies. [3] [4] Alongside Half-Life ' s launch, Valve released development tools to enable the player community to create content and mods. [5] The company then proceeded to hire the creators of popular mods such as Counter-Strike. [1]
Source 2 is a video game engine developed by Valve.The engine was announced in 2015 as the successor to the original Source engine, with the first game to use it, Dota 2, being ported from Source that same year.
Half-Life 2: 2004 2003 Windows FPS: Valve: An alpha version of Half-Life 2 's source code was leaked in 2003, a year before the game's release. [157] A complete snapshot of the game from 2017 also became public in the 2020 Source Engine leak. [158] Halo Wars: 2009 2021 Xbox 360 RTS: Ensemble Studios
Half-Life is also the subject of the YouTube improv roleplaying series Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware and Freeman's Mind. [54] [55] [56] In 2003, Valve's network was infiltrated by hackers. Among the stolen files was the unreleased Half-Life mod Half-Life: Threewave, a canceled remake of the Quake mod Threewave CTF.
While VR hardware and games grew modestly for the remainder of the 2010s, Half-Life: Alyx, a full VR game developed by Valve and released in 2020, was considered the killer application for VR games. The advent of VR in gaming marks a significant milestone in the quest for fully immersive digital experiences.
Half-Life is a series of first-person shooter games created and published by Valve. Since the release of the original Half-Life for Windows in 1998, several ports, expansion packs and sequels have been canceled, including projects developed by other studios. In 1999, Valve canceled a Half-Life port for Mac developed by Logicware.