New version of Half-Life 2 totally transforms Valve’s classic shooter

Half-Life 2 is a stone-cold traditional. The Valve shooter that launched Metropolis 17, Alyx Vance, and the long-lasting gravity gun nonetheless feels recent and fashionable virtually 20 years later, and is nicely value your time, particularly as we wait – and wait – for Half-Life 3. But when there’s one factor I’d change about HL2, it’s the gunplay. Armed along with his trusty crowbar and a slew of great-looking, imaginative weapons (the red-hot-rebar-firing crossbow will at all times be a favourite), Gordon Freeman however feels a bit inflexible, a bit static. Now, a brand new mod for Half-Life 2 VR transforms gunplay within the Steam traditional, making your entire FPS really feel way more alive.

Half-Life 2 VR is an excellent technique to expertise Valve’s iconic FPS. Created by the aptly-named Supply VR Mod Staff, it gives full headset and management help, in addition to new and intuitive menu and reload choices. However the capturing in Half-Life 2 may nonetheless do with a little bit of livening up. Launched in 2004, HL2 arguably feels just a little plain in comparison with fashionable FPS games, so thank our benefactors for the brand new Half-Life 2 Unleashed.

Created by Vittorio Romeo, Unleashed is an enhancement or ‘fork’ of Half-Life 2 VR – a mod on high of a mod. It provides quite a lot of new fight choices and interactions, together with an especially gratifying dual-wield system. You need two magnums? You bought it. Akimbo shotguns? They’re yours. How about two gravity weapons? Coming proper up. You’ll be able to even combine and match between Half-Life 2’s weapons, sporting an SMG in a single hand and the crowbar in one other.

Unleashed additionally provides a ‘common melee system,’ which means you possibly can whack Mix troopers – or anybody or the rest – utilizing no matter you will have in your hand. You’ll be able to even punch. Keep in mind that bullying little Civil Safety officer who tells you to select up the can? Effectively now you possibly can simply whack him within the jaw. Particularly while you’re dual-wielding the pistols, that is like enjoying Half-Life 2 as Max Payne. You will get Half-Life 2 Unleashed right here.

The creators of the brand new Half-Life 2 ray-traced model recently explained how they need to recapture the preliminary magic of the unique recreation, as in case you have been enjoying again in 2004. We’ve additionally found a beautiful Half-Life and Doom crossover.

Alternatively, feed your Valve nostalgia with among the different finest old games. You may also need to know precisely what happened to Half-Life 3, which will certainly, positively arrive sometime, I swear.