Half-Life 2 VR Mod makers are adding Episode One for free soon - Rock Paper Shotgun

Should beryllium retired successful the adjacent fewer months, Mr. Freeman

Time to particulate disconnected your headset and question controllers, due to the fact that a escaped VR mentation of Half-Life 2: Episode One is coming to Steam. Created by Half-Life 2: VR Mod’s SourceVR Mod Team, Episode One is the archetypal of Valve’s episodic adventures to get the virtual world overhaul treatment. It’s planned to travel up with Episode Two astatine an unannounced, but astatine a aboriginal date. You tin instrumentality a gander astatine Half-Life 2: VR Mod - Episode One successful afloat travel below, without wearing the fancy integer helmet.

The VR Mod mentation of Half-Life 2: Episode One volition beryllium disposable to anyone who owns Episode One already. It should play the aforesaid arsenic the Half-Life 2: VR Mod, which entered public beta backmost successful September, letting you determination astir freely, prime worldly up with your hands, and rhythm done weapons with a snazzy floating radial menu. The full task to person Half-Life 2 and its episodes into VR is simply a voluntary one, but I stitchery the Source VR Mod Team are accepting donations successful the signifier of coffee.

I’m not the biggest instrumentality of VR successful general, but adjacent I’m tempted to springiness these mods a spell eventually. The combat successful the VR Mod looks precise slick indeed, and Rick Lane called it "a fantastic adaptation of a classic" successful his Reality Bytes file past November.

"Unlike Valve's spit-and-paper mentation of Half-Life 2 VR, this is simply a acold much broad conversion, adding interaction controls, reworked weapons that relation with said controls, VR-compatible menus, and truthful overmuch more," helium said. "If you ain a VR headset, it's astir arsenic overmuch of a must-play arsenic Half-Life: Alyx itself."

You tin drawback the Half-Life 2: VR Mod for escaped connected Steam. There’s nary steadfast day for Episode One’s merchandise yet, but you should beryllium capable to play it sometime successful the adjacent fewer months.