Your father, Eli, has been captured by the Combine and you're trying to intercept the train he's on by making your way through a Xen infestation that has filled metro tunnels, dark sewers, and basements of crumbling buildings. How many objects did I Force-pull to my hand over the course of Half-Life: Alyx? Hundreds? A thousand? I don't know, but it never once got old.Īfter the intro you descend into City 17's quarantine zone, a murky labyrinth closed off by walls within the walls of City 17, where most of the game takes place. The opening minutes, and at plenty of times during the entire game, I just had to stop, stand still, and take it all in.

I've seen Striders before but I've never had one step over me in VR as I stared up at it, utterly dumbfounded, watching it sink its massive feet into the side of a building, using the crumbling masonry as a step to walk itself up to a rooftop. Combine Metro Cops seem larger than life because they're now actually life-size. When a city scanner takes my picture I instinctively hold my hands up against its blinding camera flash. It's immediately engaging to be back in City 17 again, so familiar yet so much more impressive in VR, an environment I don't need to just look at to admire but one I can actually run my virtual fingertips across and crane my neck back to take in fully. Here's the the best GPU and VR headset for Half-Life: Alyx.įive years before the events of Half-Life 2, Alyx Vance is performing surveillance and recon in the Combine-controlled City 17.

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