The free, community-made mod arrives on Steam
Back in January, the makers behind the excellentHalf-Life 2VR mod announced they weremoving onto making a virtual reality goggle version ofHalf-Life 2: Episode One- and we now know it will be arriving onSteamlater today. What’s more, we also have a release date for their VR mod of Episode Two. That will come next month on April 6th, according to itsSteampage.
You’ll need to own the original versions of Half-Life 2: Episode One andHalf-Life 2: Episode Twoon Steam in order to take advantage of the mods, but the mods themselves cost nothing to download - although you can support the Source VR Mod Team developers onKo-Fito say thank you for their efforts.
Naturally, you’ll also need aVR headsetthat supports SteamVR at your disposal as well. This currently includes the Valve Index, Oculus Rift / Meta Quest 2 and HTC Vive headsets, as well as any Windows Mixed Reality headset.
Both episodes will be playable at roomscale, allowing you to move around, lean over objects and use your hands to pick things up. We haven’t played them ourselves just yet, but they should function much the same as the Source VR Mod Team’s VR adaptation of the original Half-Life 2. Rick Lane wasvery impressedwith their Half-Life 2 VR Mod when he looked at it for hisReality Bitescolumn at the end of last year, calling it “almost as much of a must-play asAlyxitself.” High praise indeed.
To relive Gordon Freeman’s journey in VR, you can grab the Half-Life 2 VR Modhere, Episode Onehereand, on April 6th, Episode 2here. It’s also worth noting that Valve’s own Half-Life: Alyx is60% offin the Steam Spring Sale at the moment, bringing thebest VR gamearound to just £20/$24.
Did you also know that Valve were toying with a VRHalf-Lifegame long before HL: Alyx came out? Find out all about it in ourextensive interview with Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw.
