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Half-Life: Alyx
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2020 VR video game developed by Valve Corporation
OverviewAI-generated
Half-Life: Alyx is a video game developed by Valve, announced on 19 November 2019 and published on 23 March 2020. Part of the Half-Life franchise, it runs on the Source 2 engine and is playable in single player mode. It falls under the shooter, adventure, action and puzzle genres, is rated Mature by the ESRB, and is available on PC through SteamVR.
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Game data
Metacritic 93- Released
- 2020-03-23
- User rating
- 4.35 / 5
- Genres
- Shooter, Adventure, Action
- Platforms
- PC
- ESRB
- Mature
via RAWG
Game details · IGDB
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Alyx Vance and her father Eli mount an early resistance to the Combine's brutal occupation of Earth.
- Released
- 2020
- Genres
- Shooter, Puzzle, Adventure
- Platforms
- SteamVR
- Game modes
- Single player
- Engine
- Source 2
- Franchise
- Half-Life
- Developer
- Valve
- Publisher
- Valve
Key facts
- Developer
- Valve
- Publisher
- Valve
- Writers
- Jay Pinkerton Sean Vanaman Erik Wolpaw Jake Rodkin
- Composer
- Mike Morasky
- Series
- Half-Life
- Engine
- Source 2
- Platforms
- Windows Linux
- Release
- Windows March 23, 2020 Linux May 15, 2020
- Genre
- First-person shooter
- Mode
- Single-player
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Half-Life: Alyx
A VR Return to Half-Life. Set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Alyx Vance and her father Eli mount an early resistance to the Combine's brutal occupation of Earth., A VR Return to Half-Life. Set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Alyx Vance and her father Eli mount an early resistance to the Combine's brutal occupation of Earth.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Named after
- Alyx Vance
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Valve Corporation
- Series
- Half-Life
- Follows
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two
- Voice actor
- Michael Shapiro
- Composer
- Mike Morasky
- Narrative location
- City 17
- Developer
- Campo Santo
- Platform
- Linux
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Game engine
- Source 2
- Distribution format
- digital distribution
- Official website
- half-life.com/alyx
Show 11 more facts
- language of work or name
- Chinese
- social media followers
- 11400
- announcement date
- 2019-11-19
- publication date
- 2020-03-23
- translator
- Valve Corporation
- title
- Half-Life: Alyx
- characters
- Gordon Freeman
- output device
- Windows Mixed Reality
- distributed by
- Steam
- review score
- 91/100
- input device
- video game controller
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Encyclopedic overview
Half-Life: Alyx is a 2020 virtual reality (VR) first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. It was released for Windows on March 23, 2020, and for Linux on May 15, 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 (2004). Like previous Half-Life games, Alyx incorporates combat, puzzles and exploration. Players use VR to interact with the environment and fight enemies, using "gravity gloves" to snatch objects from a distance, similarly to the gravity gun from Half-Life 2.
The previous Half-Life game, Episode Two, was released in 2007 and ended on a cliffhanger. Valve made several attempts to develop further Half-Life games, but could not settle on a direction. In the mid-2010s, Valve began experimenting with VR and identified demand for a major VR game. They experimented with prototypes using their various game series, such as Portal, and found that Half-Life was best suited for VR.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Half-Life: Alyx” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.