Half-Life 3 fever may be hotter proper now than it has been in years. With the announcement of the brand new Valve Steam Machine and Steam Body VR headset, determined followers have satisfied themselves that that is lastly the time the place the story of Gordon Freeman and firm makes its long-awaited comeback. There’s even a small a part of me that believes them. However what I do know is that there is a new Half-Life sport that is simply launched a demo on Steam, albeit one with out Valve’s direct involvement. That is Half-Life: Component 64, and you may attempt it right now.
As a community-created mod undertaking, you will must personal a duplicate of Half-Life to play Component 64. It has been developed by Darkish Vector, the workforce that is additionally engaged on the Half-Life Enviornment multiplayer shooter that is launching in mid-December. Half-Life: Component 64 takes us again to the heyday of 1998, and the long-lasting type of Valve’s unique, which for my cash nonetheless has a extra pleasingly distinct look than the elevated ‘realism’ of its sequel. Pulling from the very best FPS video games of the mid-Nineties, it is your job to avoid wasting the Black Mesa Analysis facility from a lethal breach.
Certainly, whereas a number of the core aesthetics are what you’d count on from the Half-Life universe, the marginally extra centered weapons mixed with the loadout on provide reveals that Darkish Vector has been simply as impressed by the likes of Doom and Quake. Component 64 primarily transports us right into a parallel universe the place Half-Life was constructed by id Software program, and I am very a lot right here for the experiment.
The total undertaking covers 4 episodes, beginning out with you battling by the medical bays and analysis amenities which have turn into infested by alien invaders and zombified personnel. From there, you will delve into the underbelly of Black Mesa to uncover the supply of the issue. That is just the start, nevertheless; I will not give away precisely what lies past, however count on to face every thing from HECU particular forces and army contractors to sinister monstrosities. There is not any launch date set, however you may attempt it proper now.
The Half-Life: Component 64 demo is stay on Steam. You may obtain it at no cost. Understand that you have to personal a duplicate of the unique Half-Life on the platform with the intention to play; you most likely already do, given how usually Valve has given it away or supplied it for subsequent to nothing, however when you do not then, hey, it is a fairly good sport in its personal proper.
