Original Half-Life Getting VR Support This Month
A modder is releasing VR support for the original 1998 Half-Life game on October 19, which will make it the third entry from the series to go virtual reality. Both of the official Valve FPS releases feature fantastic world building and impeccable combat, which is what makes them so beloved to this day. The original has gone down as one of the most influential first-person shooter games, implementing environmental storytelling and interactive environments, and helping to push the genre into new territories. By this token, a VR mod is something many will have been waiting a long time for.
It's not surprising that the community is always looking for ways to bring the classic game into the modern era. For example, someone is adding ray tracing to Half-Life, which has sadly been delayed, but luckily the same modder has just released ray tracing support for Quake, another important release from the early days of PC gaming. On top of that, there's the success of the fan-made Black Mesa, which rebuilt the entire game from scratch using the Source engine, the same development toolkit used to make Half-Life 2.
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Now, fans can look forward to Max Makes Mods' VR modification for Half-Life, which is coming October 19. A trailer uploaded to the Steam page teases what players can expect. It will still retain the look and play style of the original game, but obviously it will have support for virtual reality headsets, including the Valve Index, HTC Vice, Oculus Rift, and Windows Mixed Reality. As if that wasn't enough, a number of additional modders have assisted with implementing high-res textures, and to help bring the game into the modern world, there will also be female
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