Half life full game series#

So, at the very least we know the series isn't retiring but we still don't know whether its next release will be Half-Life 3, another VR title related to Half-Life Alyx or something else completely fresh in the same universe. In an interview with GameInformer, Valve's Robin Walker said that Alyx is 'not the end' for the franchise while writer Eric Wolpaw said in an interview with PCGamer that he's 'ready to sign up for the next one'. While 2020's VR title Half-Life: Alyx was a prequel rather than the full sequel that many were hoping for, it has rekindled some hope and marked the end of a drought. It's amazing that after the series had lain dormant for so long, Half-Life fans were still scrambling for another release. Half-Life 3 release date-will it ever be made? Which takes us to the present day, 13 years after Half-Life 2: episode 2, with no idea what the future holds for the series. And the following five years have been taken up with the VR-exclusive Half-Life: Alyx. Of course, Source 2 wasn't announced until 2015 when Dota 2 was released. The other reason that goes hand-in-hand with this is explained in another IGN interview with Valve's co-founder Gabe Newell who said that “Half-Life games are supposed to solve interesting problems“ and that the studio doesn't just want to release Half-Life games in order to 'make the quarterly numbers.' When it comes to a new Half-Life game, then, Casali says that Valve is “looking for what is going to make that next big impact.” Making a big impact would, therefore, require an exciting new technology or a new engine. The first is that the team didn't want to work on another Source engine alongside game development again and needed to work on Source 2 before creating another sequel. So, why didn't Half-Life episode 3 emerge as a fully-fledged Half-Life 3 sequel as many thought it would? Well, there are two primary reasons. The idea was that development on an episode wouldn’t take as long as a full sequel, so fans could continue Gordon Freeman’s adventure sooner - albeit in smaller quantities. They would together form what was essentially a third Half Life game. Half-Life 3 or Episode 3? Where has it been?īack when Valve announced Half Life 2 would be getting episodic sequels, it revealed that there were plans to release three of them over the course of the following few years. When can I play it? With nothing officially announced it won't be anytime soon.What is it? The long-awaited, and long-absent, continuation of the Half-Life saga.Here's everything we know of and hope for in another fully-fledged Half-Life game. While this isn't a confirmation of definite plans for Half-Life 3, it's enough to give fans renewed hope that this long-dormant series is going to continue in one form or another. Fortunately, in a recent interview, Valve's Robin Walker said that the franchise still has a future, stating: 'we absolutely see Half-Life: Alyx as our return to this world, not the end of it.' But it's not a full sequel in the way that fans were hoping for and we're still waiting for a new Half-Life game with a 3 in the title. 2020's Half-Life: Alyx, a prequel exclusively for virtual reality, marked the first kick in the franchise for a long time.