Half-Life: Alyx Soundtrack
'The official soundtrack to Half-Life: Alyx. Following the story and locations of Half-Life: Alyx, the soundtrack evolves and combines industrial, electronic, experimental and orchestral cinematic pieces, alternating between abstract environmental, emotional soundscapes and direct action oriented cues.' The Half-Life: Alyx soundtrack was composed by Mike Morasky. A few tracks from the original Half-Life soundtrack by Kelly Bailey were reused. Unlike previous Half-Life titles, the music in Alyx is made up of separate audio files that are dynamically pieced and mixed together in-game, akin to Morasky's previous Portal 2 soundtrack. Half-Life: Alyx Soundtrack $9.99 Add all DLC to Cart. About This Game Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for. The Half-Life soundtrack contains music used throughout the game composed by Kelly Bailey.1 It is available on Steam as free DLC for all Half-Life owners. 1 Overview 2 Track list 3 Behind the scenes 4 Trivia 5 References 6 External links Several of the tracks are composed of licensed or stock 'samples', a notable example being the Methods of Mayhem Industrial Toolkit sample pack by Sony that. The Half-Life Alyx Soundtrack will be released in a chronological fashion following the chapters of the game.
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System req | Windows 10operating system, IntelCore i5-7500 or AMDRyzen 5 1600 processor, 12 GBRAM, NvidiaGeForce 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 video card with 6 GB of VRAM, SteamVR compatible Virtual reality headset |
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Half-Life: Alyx is a VR game developed by Valve Corporation, released on March 23, 2020.[1] It is currently available for purchase on Steam and, as the company's flagship VR title,[2] was available for free to the owners of the Valve Index VR headset. It is set five years before the events of Half-Life 2, features Alyx Vance as the player character, and is the first official single-player game in the Half-Life series to feature a speaking protagonist. It is also the first official Half-Life game to feature Steam Workshop support.
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Plot[edit]
Characters[edit]
- Wallace Breen (Mentioned only)
- Isaac Kleiner (Mentioned only)
Enemies[edit]
- Xen aliens
- Antlions
- Combine forces
Weapons[edit]
Locations[edit]
The game takes place within City 17 with a majority of the time being spent traveling through the Quarantine Zone.
- Quarantine Zone
Development[edit]
After the release of HTC Vive VR headset and The Lab in 2016, both the players and developers themselves could see virtual reality as a promising concept, but were disappointed by the lack of fully-featured high production value games that would take advantage of the technology. After making the decision to fill this role, Valve explored different franchises, concluding on Half-Life and Portal being the most interesting choices. An idea of a multiplayer game was ruled out early in the development because of the limited audience and various other issues. Although Portal 2's assets worked well in The Lab, the developers thought that the gameplay specific to the series, involving constant flinging through space and jumping through portals, would be too disorienting for a VR game. On the other hand, Half-Life's gameplay, being a combination of storytelling, combat and exploration, seemed that many of its aspects could be greatly enhanced by VR.[3]
An initial prototype was made using Half-Life 2's assets, expected to last around 15 minutes. The developers immediately noticed the playtesters experiencing a powerful sense of immersion, driving them to explore the environments and behave in ways unexpected in non-VR games, resulting in three times the initially estimated playthrough time even this early in development.[3]
In February 2017, Gabe Newell confirmed that Valve is working on three VR games.[4] He emphasized that the games were being designed specifically for VR, as several attempts of porting existing titles proved to be uncompelling, and stated that these will be fully-featured games, unlike the previously released technology demos – The Lab and Moondust. One of these games, referred to as the Valve's flagship VR game, was announced during the Index VR headset reveal to be released later in 2019.[5]Half-Life: Alyx was revealed to be the flagship title on November 18, 2019, in the first tweet of Valve’s Twitter account.[2] A trailer was released on November 21.[6]
Achievements[edit]
Half-Life: Alyx has 41 achievements.
Soundtrack[edit]
The Half-Life: Alyx soundtrack was composed by Mike Morasky.
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Logos and banners[edit]
Promotional poster (concept) by Olly Moss.
Promotional poster (final) by Chris Welch.
Steam portrait.
Complete art used as the official website's background image.
Ditto, mobile version.
Steam header.
Steam hero image.
Steam logo.
Workshop Tools splash screen.
Image included with the name announcement.[2]
Banner promoting the Commentary Update.
Promotional artwork[edit]
Promotional artwork.
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Promotional artwork for the May 2020 issue of Edge.
Screenshots[edit]
The Gravity Gloves.
Ditto, pulling a pistol.
Ditto, pulling a grenade from a Combine Ordinal.
Russell.
Russell's Lab.
Eli Vance.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.01.1'Half-Life: Alyx, available March 23, 2020' @valvesoftware on Twitter (February 13, 2020)
- ↑ 2.02.12.2'We’re excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our flagship VR game, this Thursday at 10am Pacific Time.' @valvesoftware on Twitter (November 18, 2019)
- ↑ 3.03.1The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx -- Behind Closed Doors at Valve on YouTube
- ↑Valve is making three 'full' VR games on Eurogamer.net
- ↑Valve to Launch a 'Flagship VR Game' Later This Year on Index and Other SteamVR Headsets on Road to VR
- ↑Half-Life: Alyx Announcement Trailer on YouTube
External links[edit]
Half Life Ost
- Half-Life: Alyx on Steam
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Portal game series | Portal · Portal 2 · Peer Review · Perpetual Testing Initiative |
Demos | Half-Life: Day One · Half-Life: Uplink · Portal: First Slice |
Ports | Half-Life ports(Dreamcast · PlayStation 2 · Half-Life: Source · Half-Life Deathmatch: Source) · Portal: Still Alive |
Technology demos | Directed Design Experiments · Get Your Free TVs! · Half-Life Alpha · Half-Life demonstrations · Half-Life 2 demonstrations · Half-Life 2: Lost Coast · Polyrobo · Probe Droid · Source Particle Benchmark |
VR technology demos | The Lab(Postcards · Slingshot · Longbow · Xortex 26XX · Secret Shop · Robot Repair · Solar System · Human Body Scan · Shooter) · Moondust · Aperture Hand Lab |
Cancelled games | Borealis · Half-Life: Hostile Takeover · Prospero · Return to Ravenholm · Shooter · Unannounced Half-Life project · Warren Spector's Half-Life 2 episode |
Other official games | Bridge Constructor Portal · Deathmatch Classic · Half-Life 2: Deathmatch · Half-Life 2: Survivor(Battle Mode · Mission Mode · Story Mode) · Lego Dimensions · Portal Pinball · Portal 2 Sixense MotionPack DLC · Portal: The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game |
Compilations | Half-Life: Further Data · Half-Life: Generation · Half-Life: Initial Encounter · The Orange Box |
ARGs | Half-Life 2 ARG · Portal ARG · PotatoFoolsDay ARG |
Third-party games | Black Mesa(Achievements · Soundtrack) · Codename: Gordon · Garry's Mod · Lamarr Goes to the Zoo · Mods · Narbacular Drop · Portal: The Flash Version · Sven Co-op · Tag: The Power of Paint |
Leaks | Half-Life 2 leak · WC map pack · 2016-2017 leak |
Game engines | GoldSrc · Source · Source 2 |
Modding software | Half-Life SDK · Perpetual Testing Initiative · Source SDK · Valve Hammer Editor |
Achievements | Half-Life: Alyx · The Orange Box · Portal: Still Alive · Portal 2 |
Miscellaneous | Alien Mode · Censored versions of Half-Life · Developer commentary · Development of Half-Life 2 · Easter eggs · High Definition Pack · Preliminary Findings · Multiplayer · Music · Pop culture references · Super 8 Interactive Teaser |