It's amazing that after the series had lain dormant for so long, Half-Life fans were still scrambling for another release. Half-Life 3 release date-will it ever be made? Which takes us to the present day, 13 years after Half-Life 2: episode 2, with no idea what the future holds for the series. And the following five years have been taken up with the VR-exclusive Half-Life: Alyx. Of course, Source 2 wasn't announced until 2015 when Dota 2 was released. The other reason that goes hand-in-hand with this is explained in another IGN interview with Valve's co-founder Gabe Newell who said that “Half-Life games are supposed to solve interesting problems“ and that the studio doesn't just want to 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 “looking for what is going to make that next big impact.” Making a big impact would, therefore, require an exciting new technology or a new engine. 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 before creating another sequel.
So, why didn't Half-Life episode 3 emerge as a fully-fledged Half-Life 3 sequel as many thought it would? Well, there are two primary reasons.
The idea was that development on an episode wouldn’t take as long as a full sequel, so fans could continue Gordon Freeman’s adventure sooner - albeit in smaller quantities. They would together form what was essentially a third Half Life game. Half-Life 3 or Episode 3? Where has it been?īack 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. When can I play it? With nothing officially announced it won't be anytime soon.What is it? The long-awaited, and long-absent, continuation of the Half-Life saga.Here's everything we know of and hope for in another fully-fledged Half-Life game. While this isn't a confirmation of definite plans for Half-Life 3, it's enough to give fans renewed hope that this long-dormant series is going to continue in one form or another. Fortunately, in a recent interview, Valve's Robin Walker said that the franchise still has a future, stating: "we absolutely see Half-Life: Alyx as our return to this world, not the end of it." 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. 2020's Half-Life: Alyx, a prequel exclusively for virtual reality, marked the first kick in the franchise for a long time.
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