Plus, now I can show the scientists how I groove everytime I put the HEV suit on. I've walked into the lobby to hear Barney talk about how his system crashed dozens of times, but pressing the alarm under his desk by reaching out why my real hand is all new. If you're as big a fan of Half-Life as I am, then it's delightful just to inhabit familiar spaces in virtual reality. It also has a bunch of comfort controls, like the ability to teleport and turn in fixed increments if first-person free movement makes you feel woozy. You can see your hands in-game you can pick up objects using the grips of your motion controllers you can use every weapon, including guns, as melee objects. There are a lot of games that users have hacked VR support into, but HLVR is better than most because it goes the whole hog. The Half-Life 1 VR mod has been in development for years, with the most recent update at the end of last year. It's impressively feature packed and easy to set up, but it was a simple ladder that sold me. I thus spent some time this weekend fussing around Black Mesa in the Valve Index, using a Half-Life 1 VR mod. Added to which, the music by Joel Nielsen is simply sublime, fusing melancholy, anticipation, and menace into a crescendo of colliding sounds that fit the battle scene perfectly.A new Half-Life game is only a few weeks away, but it occurred to me that there was no reason to wait for Half-Life: Alyx if I wanted to experience Vortigaunts in VR. Without putting a spoiler in here, I’ve reached the first major boss fight in Xen - clue: arachnid-– and the build-up, the tension, and the entire arena is a masterpiece of game design that cannot be overstated. It makes you want to explore the strange alien planet and with plenty of puzzles to take care of –which help you proceed through the game– I haven’t felt any of the tedium of the original. Also, there are a number of impossibly difficult boss fights that took me days, if not weeks, to complete, often leaving me very frustrated.īut this new version of Xen has been thoughtfully designed by a small group of gamers, the monotony has been stripped away and the entire scenario of Xen has been given a magical feel that was so lacking in the original. Most of the time I ended up falling off and into deep space or some kind of space-time-continuum. It was confusing, often monotonous, felt like it was part of a different game entirely and it contained some crazily difficult moments, like the island hopping, which I could never get right. To be honest, I was never a big fan of Xen in the original game.
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