Return To City 17 In ‘Half-Life: Alyx’

Half-Life: Alyx has been officially revealed with a beautiful and action-packed trailer that sees the return of Alyx herself, Gordon Freeman’s partner in Half-Life 2 and its subsequent episodes.

The trailer has several notable things on top of the fact the game is entirely VR and a prequel to Half-Life 2. The first is that one of the new characters is voiced by Rhys Darby and it’s impossible to ignore that accent for the New Zealander sticking out. The second is that it is somewhat weird to think about playing a Half-Life game where the protagonist is speaking — Gordon Freeman in Half-Life and Half-Life 2 never spoke. And thirdly this game looks stunning, not only for a VR title but also just a Half-Life game. It’s been 15 long years since Half-Life 2 released and this trailer shows that with City17 looking the best it ever has.

Check out the full trailer for Half-Life: Alyx below

Geoff Keighley has released a 20-minute roundtable discussion with several key people at Valve who have been working on this game in secret over the last couple years. They explain that they started working on and exploring VR first and then sorta picked between making a Portal game or a Half-Life game and ended up on Half-Life.

Of course, he prods quite well about Half-Life 3 as well and as always there are no answers at the moment other than it could still happen one day, who knows.

Find that full video below.

Half-Life: Alyx will be releasing on several VR headsets with the Valve Index obviously being the key headset it was being designed for. If you don’t have that, you can use the HTC Vice, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality and even the Oculus Quest with a PC and Link Cable.

Half-Life Alyx is currently set to release in March of 2020