Finally Half-Life 2 VR is Out - A Quick Review
Half-Life VR?
September 19, 2022
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With the release of Half-Life: Alyx, Valve officially stepped into the world of VR, and players experienced the whole world of Half-Life through their headsets in Alyx. After this, there is no further update from Valve about the VR version of Half-Life.
During all this time, some modders have developed and released a VR mode for Half-Life 2, and you can get it from steam for free. This mod is compatible with VR gear such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, etc. The beta version is released, which means there will be a final version. This beta version doesn’t contain all the features of the game, and you may face some bugs while playing the game. After all this, players are still excited to set on this adventure with their gravity gun. The mod lacks the feature of many other VR games, such as teleportation and a blink movement system.
Half-Life 2 starts with vehicle driving, where you ride a boat through the canal system, so chances are that you won’t feel right after this trip in VR. Dealing with riding scenes is a nightmare for VR developers, but developers have tried their best to deal with these negative effects in this mod. For those who can’t bear this torture, they can rather switch to the 2D view from the settings section for all those racing and driving scenes. This VR mod isn’t developed by Valve at all but rather outsourced.
Features of Half-Life 2 VR Mod
To understand everything about this mod, here are all the important features of this VR mod.
• Left-handed support
• Quick Reload
• Laser Sight
• Motion vignette and 3rd person vehicle camera
• Playable on all headsets supported by SteamVR
• Radial menu to switch weapons according to the situation on the field
• Realistic weapon interactions
• Full room-scale VR
• Tracked motion controls
• Smart Ammo storage
• Two-handed weapons
Players have always wanted to melee attack soldiers of City 17 in VR, and it is now possible with this outsourced mod. This 2004 game won’t look much better on VR, but it is a great start for mod developers and an inspiration for Valve to come up with something like this.
The best thing is that developers have created a link where players can report any bugs to help them in improving the mod. The team of mod developers is just a group of Valve fans who have waited long enough, and they took the matter into their hands to develop something new for the whole Half-Life community.
How to get the Half-Life 2 VR mod?
The Half-Life 2 VR mod will be released on September 16 on the official Steam store, and players can directly download it from there. It is a free mod, so there is no need to worry about spending anything at all. Go to the steam store and download the mod to enjoy City 17 in VR.
