To many gamers who still remember stepping off the train into City 17,Half-Life 2is a classic that holds up today. Following its release in 2004, the game was incredibly well received, with fans still demanding either a direct sequel inHalf-Life 3or a final installment of theHalf-Life 2DLC with a Chapter 3. Those demands have died down as many have come to terms with the likelihood that Valve is not planning on aHalf-Life 3release, but this hasn’t stopped modders from adding new content intoHalf-Life 2.
One of the more ambitious mods coming toHalf-Life 2is one that will give it a VR mode. The team at Cabalistic unveiled theHalf-Life 2VR modeback in April this year, showing off 12 minutes of impressive footage of how the game will work. Now, a new trailer has been released, and while it only shows around a minute of gameplay footage, there’s a detail given right at the end that fans won’t want to miss.
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That detail is that the beta forHalf-Life 2’s VR mod will launch in September 2022. Anyone who would like to try the mod can do so with aSteamVR supported headset, and the team at Cabalistic have also tested it on the Index, Quest, Vive and Pimax VR hardware. This is exciting news for those eagerly anticipating being able to playHalf-Life 2in VR, as this mod not only gives the gamers a new way to play, but introduces a lot of novel gameplay aspects as well.
TheHalf-Life 2VR mod has updated the game’s mechanics, allowing for players to dodge attacks physically and move into cover. Guns can be manually reloaded, too, and there are a lot of other new things the player can do thanks to the capabilities of VR. This can create interesting and sometimes goofy moments, as was shown in the 12 minutes of footage released in April when a user played tetherball with a corpse in theHalf-Life 2’sspooky area of Ravenholm.
AVR mode isn’t the only big mod coming to the game. Even withHalf-Life 2being nearly twenty years old, plenty of modders are still releasing new content for the game fairly regularly. OneambitiousHalf-Life 2modputs players in the role of a combine soldier, for example, letting them play from the perspective of the game’s enemy faction. There are plenty more mods already available forHalf-Life 2, and many players have stated that it is a title with some of the best mods in gaming.
Half-Life 2released in 2004 and is available on Mobile, PC, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360.
