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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 .
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]
Plans for a successor to the original Source engine began following the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two in 2007. [1] [2] The first engine tech demo was created in 2010 by remaking a map from Left 4 Dead 2. [2] Images of this were leaked onto the internet in early 2014. [3]
2D/3D game engine packaged in a 3D modelar with integrated Bullet physics library [2] [3] Build engine: C: 1995 Yes 2.5D Windows, Linux, macOS, DOS: Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Redneck Rampage: Custom, free non-commercial use FPS engine; 2.5D, 2D grid base geometry Buildbox: C++: 2014 Optional Yes 2D, 3D Windows, macOS, iOS, Android
It debuted as the successor to GoldSrc in 2004 with the releases of Half-Life: Source, Counter-Strike: Source, and Half-Life 2. Other notable third-party games using Source include Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, Dear Esther, and The Stanley Parable. Valve released incremental updates to the engine during its lifetime.
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.
A version of the software for Valve's Source 2 engine, known as Source 2 Filmmaker, was released on May 15, 2020, alongside other development tools for Half-Life: Alyx. [26] In February 2023, Facepunch announced they were producing their own successor to SFM due to compatibility issues with their own game platform, Sandbox. [27]
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.