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Minerva is an episodic series of single-player modifications ("mods") for Valve's Half-Life 2. The mod was created by Adam Foster. The plot and settings of Minerva are linked to Someplace Else, Foster's original map for Half-Life, and to Half-Life 2. The mod was released on Steam on April 30, 2013. [4] [5]
Mod tools for the Source 2 engine and Steam Workshop support for Half-Life: Alyx were released on May 15, 2020. [54] Valve announced plans to release a new Hammer level editor for Source 2, and planned to release a partial Source 2 software development kit for the updated features later, with the focus at launch on shipping and supporting Alyx .
Valve's 2020 virtual reality game Half-Life: Alyx is set as a prequel to Half-Life 2.The player controls Alyx Vance who during the events of the game gains a pair of "gravity gloves", which provide function similar to the gravity gun with the ability to lift and throw objects, though tailored to work as standard VR in-game hand controls.
Half-Life 2 was selected by readers of The Guardian as the best game of the decade, with particular praise for the environment design. The Guardian journalist Keith Stuart wrote that it "pushed the envelope for the genre, and set a new high watermark for FPS narrative". [72] Half-Life 2 won Crispy Gamer's Game of the Decade [73] tournament ...
Dario Casali, a designer at Valve who has worked on all Half-Life games, remarked in an interview that during development on Half-Life: Alyx he attempted to play the entirety of the original Half-Life again for research, but after five hours decided to play Black Mesa instead, reasoning it was a much more enjoyable product. [76]
It's a must-play for anyone with a virtual reality headset
Half-Life 2: Episode One is a 2006 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve for Windows. It continues the story of Half-Life 2 (2004). As the scientist Gordon Freeman, players must escape City 17 with Gordon's companion Alyx Vance. Like previous Half-Life games, Episode One combines shooting, puzzles and storytelling.
Deathmatch Classic – A free, official Half-Life mod by Valve that updates the multiplayer gameplay from id Software's Quake, featuring enhanced textures, models, and lighting. [4] It was released on June 7, 2001, [5] and included in an update to Half-Life a month later. [6] OS X and Linux ports of the Windows game were released through Steam ...