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The designer Robin Walker said Valve used Half-Life games to "solve some interesting collision of technology and art that had reared itself". [70] For the original Half-Life, they expanded the role of narrative in FPS games; for Half-Life 2, they explored characters and physics systems, and refined these ideas in the Half-Life 2 episodes. [70]
Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.It is the developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the game franchises Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and Dota.
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]
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 . Players control Alyx Vance on a mission to seize a superweapon belonging to the alien Combine before the events of Half-Life 2 .
The Source engine is graphically more advanced than the GoldSrc engine used for the original games. Half-Life: Source features the Havok physics engine and improved effects for water and lighting. The level architecture, textures, and models of the game, however, remained unchanged. Half-Life: Source was met with mixed reviews.
A screenshot of Half-Life 2: Episode One. The high-dynamic-range rendering and Phong shading effects are evident. The Source 2006 branch was the term used for Valve's games using technology that culminated with the release of Half-Life 2: Episode One.
Like the original Half-Life (1998), Half-Life 2 is a single-player first-person shooter (FPS) in which players control Gordon Freeman. [1] It features combat, exploration, jumping challenges, and puzzle-solving, and narrative elements conveyed through scripted sequences. [1]
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