It was cancelled because it was built on the unfinished Source 2 engine. Half-Life 3 was in development 2013/2014, and was set to be a procedurally-generated, replayable game that fused Left 4 Dead-inspired gameplay with scripted story moments. Half-Life: Alyx tells a story that ends with one character put on figurative ice, another back from the dead and re-invested in the fight after the “loss” of his daughter, and the legendary Gordon Freeman getting his crowbar back, in VR no less. At this point, we can safely say that Half-Life 3 didn’t happen due to the development of the Source 2 engine, other time constraints, and because Valve never really found an idea they were happy with during that time. Pretty much everything Casali says matches up with what we’ve heard regarding Half-Life 3 before. The newly released Half-Life: Alyx is set five years before Half-Life 2 and stars Gordon’s ally Alyx Vance, so it doesn’t majorly advance the story. Is Half Life Alyx Episode 3?īut the follow-up Episode Three was canceled.

Valve has just announced Half-Life 4, which is a direct sequel to Half-Life 2 and the events of Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two, as well as continuing the events after the amazing VR-exclusive Half-Life: Alyx (which is now the best PC game of 2020 on Metacritic).

What happened to Half Life Episode 3?Įpisode Three was quietly cancelled during this time, with the only official announcement coming from Gabe Newell in a 2011 interview, where he confirmed that Valve had moved on from the episodic model of developing software. Alyx could be the start of a renewed era, so if some kind of Half-Life 3 announcement happens, it’ll be after Alyx is released. « We absolutely see Half-Life: Alyx as our return to this world, not the end of it, » Walker said, implying the possibility of more Half-Life games in the future. G-Man will interfere in a similar way in Half-Life: Alyx but we’ll get to that in a second. In the Half-Life 2 finale, the G-Man pulls Gordon out of the action just as he accomplishes his mission, leaving Alyx to die and putting Gordon back in stasis until his services are needed again.

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