Simply days forward of its 20-year anniversary, Half-Life 2 has a new trailer for its RTX remaster.
Valve’s influential first-person shooter launched on Steam on November 16, 2004. Ever since then, and the launch of Episode 2 in 2007, followers have referred to as on Valve to launch Half-Life 3. But alas, it appears additional away now, all these years later, than ever earlier than.
Still, Nvidia has determined to launch a new trailer “celebrating the sport’s enduring legacy” that gives one other have a look at the remaster, Half-Life 2 RTX. Half-Life 2 RTX is in improvement at 100-person mod group Orbifold Studios, and provides full ray tracing, remastered belongings, and DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction as a free DLC for Half-Life 2 homeowners.
So, what’s the standing of Half-Life as of late? In 2020, a making-of for VR unique Half-Life: Alyx revealed a swathe of video games developed and shelved by Valve between the launch of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Valve’s newest VR sport. That record included particulars on a model of Half-Life 3 that was in improvement for round a 12 months.
(*2*) revealed that no less than 5 Half-Life video games have been canceled between Episode 2 and Alyx, together with a variety of different tasks — the most notable being a challenge formally referred to inside Valve as Half-Life 3.
Half-Life 3 was mentioned to have been created in the Supply 2 engine and drew some gameplay inspiration from Left 4 Useless. The challenge generally known as Half-Life 3 would have used procedural era between hand-crafted story moments to create a extra replayable sport. For example, the sport would generate a constructing and an goal (resembling rescuing a prisoner), then create a route by way of it and fill the constructing with enemies, that means that part would at all times play out in a different way.
The group went so far as scanning Frank Sheldon, the actor whose likeness was used for the sequence’ G-Man. Nevertheless the Supply 2 engine was unfinished, and the challenge “did not get very far” earlier than it was dropped. It was in improvement for round a 12 months between 2013 and 2014.
What may need been? Since then, Valve has launched Counter-Strike 2 as an up to date type of CS:GO, and multiplayer sport Impasse in early improvement type. The corporate has but to make any indication that a new Half-Life sport, Half-Life 3 or in any other case, is in the works.
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