
Working with her father and Black Mesa survivor Eli Vance, along with the eccentric Russell, they continue investigating the presence of alien Combine forces who invaded Earth in a seven-hour war. Set five years before meeting Gordon Freeman in Half-Life Two, players become a 19-year-old resistance fighter Alyx Vance. Half-Life: Alyx – Review image provided by Valve Corporation A Brave New World Beating its 11 chapters ultimately leads to important details for where the series is headed next (and wow, it’s crazy). While Valve stated it’s not a true sequel to Episode Two from 2007, Half-Life: Alyx is indeed a full-length installment that took an estimated 15 hours to finish (around the same as every Half-Life game). These feelings are injected into players, thrown back in a perfect dream for fans and a perfect nightmare for those uninitiated. It ultimately gave Alyx an opportunity to fully realize the dread and wonders of Half-Life’s terrifying world.

Though risky, the team had taken a different approach with VR since exploring new avenues with its Index headset. This is also what makes Valve’s long-awaited return to the science fiction series powerful. A “real” headcrab attack is something many VR users like myself will never unsee, despite knowing them from the safety of a PC screen 13 years ago. Half-Life: Alyx made me afraid of the dark again.
