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Three new Half-Life: Alyx videos show off gunplay and dead headcrabsPoke ‘em with your gun, Alyx.
Poke ‘em with your gun, Alyx.
Image credit:Valve
Image credit:Valve
Half-Life: Alyxwill be here before the month is out and Valve are kicking off March with three new gameplay videos. There’s the usual headcrabs, of course, but we also get a look at exploding, healing, shooting, and plenty of other important VR action verbs. Valve have separated these into three videos to show off three types of VR locomotion: teleporting, shift, and continuous. Step lightly around the headcrabs though, right?
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Last up is an outdoor fight scene that makes me think a bit of an old arcade cabinet shooter, though Alyx certainly has more direct control over where in the area she’s headed. In this one you can see Alyx duck behind a car door as an enemy breaks the window then pop up to shoot them through the new hole. There’s plenty of ducking behind cover and around corners to be had. She also climbs a ladder which I gather is a whole thing? Ladders, whoda thunk. I don’t recommend following her example here and injecting something into your veins that you found in a portable toilet though.
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If all this Alyx-ing is giving you the itch, you can stillplay the Half-Life collection free on Steamuntil later this month when Alyx is out. It’s planned for release on March 23rd, and you can find it, naturally,on Steam. Here’s everything elseyou need to know about Half-Life: Alyx.
