One thing to look ahead to: Within the realm of VR first-person shooters, there hasn’t been a lot to observe up Valve’s critically acclaimed Half-Life: Alyx within the two years since its launch. A workforce of modders plans to vary that by giving the sport a complete new mini-campaign.
One of many highlights of the 2022 PC Gaming Present was Half-Life Alyx: Levitation, the upcoming mod marketing campaign for Valve’s 2020 VR FPS. The free add-on first teaser emerged final yr and a brief gameplay trailer appeared in April. On Sunday the builders confirmed a couple of minutes of motion of their first uninterrupted gameplay reel.
The brand new footage exhibits a prolonged shootout in an all-new stage the place the primary recreation’s heroine, Alyx Vance, fights acquainted Half-Life enemies like Mix troopers and a Strider. Levitation is about in a spot known as Sector X, the place Alyx investigates a mysterious floating constructing and tries to find what the Mix need with it.
Though the modders cannot get Half-Life: Alyx’s authentic voice actors to reprise the returning characters of their marketing campaign, the video exhibits that they’ve forged some expert impersonators. One of many principal contributors is a Supply Filmmaker creator who makes a speciality of animating the sequence’ enigmatic recurring character, G-man, whom we briefly see within the new trailer.
Levitation is meant to supply round 5 hours of recent gameplay. Though it did not get a selected launch date on the PC Gaming Present, it is nonetheless scheduled for 2022.
