Half-Life
Warning : The following contains SPOILERS forHalf - Life : Alyx .
Valve may have disappointed someHalf - Lifefans when it answered war cry forHalf - Life 3with the VR - onlyHalf - Life : Alyx , but the newHalf - Life 2prequel actually prepare thing up for a conclusion to the main trilogy . Despite the fact thatHalf - spirit : Alyxtakes space betweenHalf - Life 1and2 , sure effect in the narration teaseHalf - Life 3like it ’s never been tease before .
Half - Life : Alyxfollows the titular Alyx Vance , anti - Combine resistance member and , during the events ofHalf - Life 2 , friend of protagonist Gordon Freeman . Set five yearsbeforeHalf - animation 2,Alyxtells the story of Alyx and her Father-God , Eli , attempting to infiltrate a floating Combine facility call the Vault in orderliness to stop the Combine from using a superweapon supposedly contained within . They eventually learn that the Vault is a prison , not a weapon system , and it ’s holding someone who apparently live on the Black Mesa incident in the originalHalf - Life .
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Once Alyx reaches the Vault , Half - aliveness : Alyx ’s big turn end excite up events of preceding game . It boast a surprising prison term jump with major import for the eternal sleep of the series , specifically arrange up a third mainlineHalf - Lifegame .
Will There Be A Half-Life 3 After Alyx?
Alyx and Eli assume Gordon is the one the Combine are save in the Vault , but it turns out to be the mystifying G - Man . He tells Alyx he can make adjustments to reality and bid to let her salvage Eli from his death at theend ofHalf - life sentence 2 Episode 2 , which would n’t take place until several years in the futurity . She admit , demolish a Combine Advisor before it could kill Eli , and the game fades to bloodless . The words"Subject : Alyx"and"Status : Hired"then seem on - screen , similar to when G - Man put Gordon into stasis at the ending of the firstHalf - Life .
A post - credits scene then shew Eli verbalise to Gordon after Alyx saved him from the Advisor . She had apparently vanished after vote out the alien , so Eli blames G - Man and vows to kill him , handing Gordon a pry bar . This last gesture - giving Gordon his signature tune weapon - is an obvious call to action . As much as Eli is hand the artillery to Gordon in an effort to encourage him to hunt down G - Man , Valve seems to be telling players theHalf - Lifegameswill once again tilt back to Gordon ’s perspective and carry on where the main narrative left off .
It ’s not an official"Half - liveliness 3 confirmed"quite yet , but Valve has made it clear more Half - Life stories are on the way . Valve confirmed before the VR game ’s release thatHalf - living : Alyxis just the beginningof moreHalf - Lifecontent , and the company has say it hopes thenextHalf - Lifegame come soonerthan the wait forAlyx . The developer’sreason for not makingHalf - aliveness 3was obviously that it wanted to introduce in the same room it had with the first two games . Perhaps set its full maturation force behindAlyxas a " killer app " for VR was Valve ’s way of proving it ’s still capable of pushing gaming forward , and nowHalf - Life 3can return as a more traditional ( but still clearly " Valve " ) , tale - focused , first - person adventure .
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Half - Life : Alyxreleased for PC on March 23 , 2020 .
