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the human race from the oppression of the alien Combine
The ending provided very little in the way of closure, setting up a number of plot points for Half-Life 3
kick in the franchise for a long time
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
fans renewed hope that this long-dormant series is going to continue in one form or another
long-absent, continuation of the Half-Life sagaWhen can I play it? With nothing officially announced it won't be anytime soonHalf-Life 3 or
Episode 3? Where has it been?Back 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
They would together form what was essentially a third Half Life game
- albeit in smaller quantities.Half Life 2: Episode 3 was never released, and over time people eventually just started referring to it as
developing Half-Life 2 and its Source game engine concurrently, level designer Dario Casali said that the team didn't want to repeat this,
decided to work on smaller, episodic releases, with Episode 1 releasing in 2006 followed by the infamous Episode 2 in 2007
more and more, and more, and more stuff in this game because we want to make it as good as we can, and then we realized these episodes are
there are two primary reasons
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
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
engine.Of course, Source 2 wasn't announced until 2015 when Dota 2 was released
And the following five years have been taken up with the VR-exclusive Half-Life: Alyx.Which takes us to the present day, 13 years after
after the series had lain dormant for so long, Half-Life fans were still scrambling for another release
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
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
a "watershed moment" for the platform, showing its true potential.If another Half-Life title was to be released, then, would it be on VR?
Well, that remains unclear and Valve remains non-committal
it's going to be another VR title
We don't know if it's going to be a non VR title."With the release of Half-Life: Alyx being so recent (though the game seems to be going
How are people able to enjoy it? How many people can we get into the VR platform? [Are] people saying that VR is now this essential part of
limited platform in terms of its user base and if a fully-fledged Half-Life 3 were to be released it's possible Valve would want to make it
available to as wide and audience as possible
This all remains speculation, however, and we won't know for sure what the future holds for the series until Valve confirms its
How much of it is still relevant is unclear, but Gabe Newell did confirm that players would retain control of action hero physicist Gordon
The end of Half-Life: Alyx certainly suggests that this will still be true of the next release
marketing, also confirmed that the story would not return to City 17, and that the developers had put a lot of work into "creating a natural
progress of topography and climate".Newell also confirmed that Episode 3, as it was then known, would finish the story arc that began in
While he spoke of the possibility of a fourth episodic instalment, he confirmed that it would be stand-alone and developed outside of Valve
It was later revealed to have been in development at Dishonored developers Arkane Studios and titled Return to Ravenholme
conclusion, much like Half Life and Half Life 2
eventually develop sequels
the post is a thinly veiled plot summary of what would have been Half-Life 2: Episode 3, albeit with most of the name's changed and
have followed Gordon and Alyx as they journeyed to the Borealis, which would have been found to be phasing in and out of existence
After a protracted fight they would have eventually have rigged the ship to travel to the heart of the Combine empire and explode, thus
we have had a fair bit of concept art hit the net over the past 13 years
Normally it might give us some hints at what to expect, but given the amount of time since the art first surface, the nature of the game is
likely to have drastically changed.The first pieces arrived online in 2007 and 2008, showcasing some of the possible settings:Some more
concept art arrived in 2012, and if legit shows off a wide variety of environments the players can explore.Valve has yet to comment on its
"I think it's kind of public knowledge that people know that it is being worked on
And so if I were to say that, yeah, I've seen some images, like some concept art of it, that wouldn't be big news to be honest
I guess I could say that I did see something that looked kinda like in the Half-Life universe.And I mean it wouldn't surprise anyone if I
said they're doing it, they're working on it, yeah
So to go out on a limb I'd say I did some concept art for Half-Life 3."March 2008 also saw the release of what appears to be Alyx Vance
concept art on the Picasa page belonging to Valve illustrator Andrea Wicklund
The images were quickly removed, but not before being saved and redistributed elsewhere.Reddit AMAIn January 2017 Gabe Newell went onto
Reddit to take part in an AMA (Ask Me Anything), which fans naturally used to ask some questions about the future of the Half Life/Portal
further explain it.Half-Life 3 remains unconfirmedSo, now that the Half-Life series has returned to, er, life fans are once again hoping to
won't hear about it or see it unless it's just right
Steam is one of the most popular digital storefronts in PC gaming, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and DOTA 2 attract millions of
breathing its first breaths, maybe we will see Half-Life 3 in some form or another some day
Certainly, the studio is clearly keen to continue releasing games in the series and we'll be updating this page as soon as some kind of
