Half-Life: Alyx - The Digital Foundry Tech Review - A Game-Changer for VR?

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The review you've been waiting for. Armed with his Oculus Rift S, John Linneman takes on Half-Life: Alyx - a hugely important game for virtual reality... and a simply brilliant Half-Life game in its own right. Check out what makes this game so special right here.

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Well, I'm 32 years now. I've been playing video games since I was 5. There are many "magic moments" in videogames, which I fondly remember. Even though I'm in VR for several years now, I think the HL Alyx opening scene will be the biggest magic moment for a very long time. I've never been so overwhelmed by a videogame before. I just stood and stared for a very long time, just couldn't believe my eyes.

DigitalDesires

I like the fact that Valve announced Alyx last year and delivered it with no delays at all. It's uncommon these days.

Bossix

I've put in about 11 hours so far and it's unlike anything else I've experienced. It has literally felt like I've been in a sci-fi movie.

TheSpacemanSpliff

Hey DF - you guys notice that the "Spectator" footage doesn't match with the actual VR footage? I'm looking over my recordings currently and I swear the game looked way better inside the headset itself, not just in terms of the resolution - but lighting, ambient occlusion, etc.

Nick

There's two things to immediately take away from Half-Life: Alyx: 1. Mods are going to be insanely fun with Valve releases the creation tools. The SteamWorkshop is going to have tons of traffic. and 2. It's probably going to take Valve a very long time to release new games with this amount of attention-to-detail. They'll most likely reuse assets, but I'm assuming it might take them a bit longer to really wow us next time.

jesterx

“when you look into the eyes of these characters it really makes you feel like spiderman”

Peightun

The animations in this game are on another level. Just look at the depth of animations for something as small as a headcrab.

KizaruB

Being a Half Life fan since I was about 8 years old (I'm 26 now), playing Half Life Alyx made me very emotional. It's a fantastic game that immerses you in the world like no other game has before it. The end of the game had my mouth open the entire time, and hearing Gman walk around me with the 3d audio gave me chills. Now I just want the new source 2 tools so I can make my own campaign!

Edit: I fully agree with your comparison of Boneworks. Boneworks is indeed more ambitious when it comes to physics, especially when it comes to gameplay. I think Half Life Alyx is a much better game overall but Boneworks did push VR forward in it's own way.

awesome

This is the first review of this game I've seen that actually gets across why this needed to be a VR game. IGN, Angry Joe, etc all fail at being able to explain this but DIgital FOundary got it exactly right. I'm also going to check out Bonewroks. I had never heard of it.

shadowskill

I want to see Alyx's hands when Richard plays the game. They'll become weapons of mass destruction.

ghost

i know there's less physics interaction in Alyx than in Boneworks, but man my arm got trapped everytime somewhere in Bonworks, on walls, boxes items everything, and it is really annoying while in reallife there is nothing your hand should be right in front of you but in the Game there stuck under a crate or near your body. and it was taking me out of immersion.
In alyx there is less of that problm and thus more fun less frustrating

SwissMade

Masterpiece, nice touch using Boneworks OST for the background. The track What I am from Bonetones is amazing.

TheOGjarilo

DF: "I can't wait to see what else the community can come up with."
Community: *draws dick picks all over the glass*

ea

They should put that on the store page: 'Boneworks: it's fiddly, but it does work!'

KillahMate

I never played the Half Life games so I am doing it now before getting to Alyx. Just finished Black Mesa last night it was great. On to HL2.

cdurkinz