New Half-Life Alyx: Levitation gameplay makes the wait for Half-Life 3 much easier
When we last saw Alyx Vance she was being «hired» by interdimensional talent recruiter G-Man, who locked her in stasis pending her next assignment at the end of Half-Life: Alyx. Ordinary G-Man stuff, no big deal.
Officially, we don't know when that assignment will take place. We don't know if the next Half-Life game will be a VR title or a desktop game, when it might come out, or if Valve is even actually working on it. Half-Life 3 (or even Half-Life: Alyx 2) is still frustratingly unconfirmed. We might be in for a long, long wait.
But in the meantime we have Levitation to look forward to. It's a mod for Half-Life: Alyx created by CS:GO map designer and artist Shawn Snelling (FMPONE), animator and G-Man meme generator Corey Laddo, and other volunteer modders, animators, and voice actors. This free new campaign is a DLC-sized action adventure that will last between 4-5 hours. As shown at the PC Gaming Show, here's a seven-minute single-take gameplay trailer that looks just as exciting and polished as the actual game.
As the original teaser trailer(opens in new tab) for Levitation showed, two members of the human resistance have discovered a bizarre floating apartment building in City 17. The Combine are clearly once again up to no good, and Alyx is on the case, with the action picking up just after the continuity-bending finale of Half-Life: Alyx.
«The basic premise involves Alyx receiving a distress signal from two resistance members Maya and Barry about secret Combine technology buried within a section of the Quarantine Zone known as Sector X,» Corey Laddo told me via email. «With the help of Russell, Alyx dives deep into Combine territory to investigate this threat and search for Maya and Barry. It's a completely
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