Half-Life 2 VR Mod Episode One is out now on Steam, and it’s a delight

When you want extra Half-Life 2 VR, you’re in luck. Following the unimaginable success of Valve’s personal Half-Life: Alyx and the implausible community-made Half-Life 2 VR mod, the creators behind the latter are again with extra digital actuality adventures for the traditional FPS sport, with help for all SteamVR headsets together with the Meta Quest 2, HTC Vive, and Valve Index. Half-Life 2 VR Mod Episode One is out now on Steam, and it seems spectacular.

Coming from the Supply VR Mod Group behind the bottom Half-Life 2 VR Mod, this Episode One adaptation sees you as soon as once more within the sneakers of everybody’s favorite silent protagonist, Gordon Freeman, as he returns to Metropolis 17 and groups up with Alyx Vance. With a totally built-in radial menu, practical iron sights, two-handed weapons, and handbook reloading, together with non-compulsory laser sight and a fast reload accessibility setting, all the trendy conveniences of digital actuality are proper at your fingertips.

Maybe the most important draw of all, seen within the announcement trailer beneath, is simply how enjoyable the VR gravity gun might be. Maybe some of the iconic weapons in any first-person shooter, selecting up all the things from barrels to Mix troopers with the Zero Level Vitality Subject manipulator and hurtling them across the surroundings is as pure a pleasure right now because it was in 2004, made all the higher when it’s in your arms for actual (properly, nearly).

The mod is playable on all headsets which can be supported by SteamVR, which incorporates the Valve Index, Meta Quest 2, and HTC Vive – so if you happen to’ve picked up among the best VR headsets on PC try to be good to go. It even consists of help for bHaptics vests, so if you actually need to really feel the immersion throughout your physique, the choice is there.

Half-Life 2 VR Mod Episode One is out now on Steam. It’s free to play, however you’ll must personal the unique Half-Life 2 Episode One in your account (not merely by household sharing). Nonetheless, you don’t must have the unique sport presently put in to play this VR conversion.

When you’re not within the temper for VR proper now, maybe this Half-Life 2 remake within the fashion of traditional Resident Evil is extra up your alley. Alternatively, have a look by extra of the most effective outdated PC video games that you would be able to play in 2023.