Half-Life: Alyx now has over three hours of developer commentary

It’s value replaying via Half-Life: Alyx from begin to end as soon as extra — if solely as a result of Valve’s growth group simply added over three hours of audio commentary to the VR-only sport that launched earlier this 12 months. Within the commentary mode, you’ll encounter clips at 147 factors of curiosity within the sport, overlaying a number of corners of growth, together with design, artwork, animation, rendering, sound, and extra. Valve endearingly shared that the event group in Seattle recorded the commentary “in closets and blanket forts.”

Provided that these are tell-all tales in regards to the sport’s growth, you’re going to run into main spoilers. So full the sport as soon as earlier than listening except you don’t thoughts spoiling the primary Half-Life sport to return out in over a decade.

To dive right into a playthrough with developer commentary turned on, you’ll really need to start out a brand new sport, then choose “Developer Commentary” within the menu earlier than continuing to gameplay. Then, search for floating headphones strewn about every surroundings, choose them up, and fasten each round Alyx’s head to listen to the commentary observe. The commentary is in English, however subtitles can be found in English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Castilian Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Russian, Polish, Conventional Chinese language, and Simplified Chinese language.

Dev commentary has been a signature function in most Valve video games, treating curious gamers to interactable audio clips positioned across the sport world. Every dives into completely different elements of design methodology, growth challenges, and simply usually fascinating tidbits of contextual, location-based info that you simply most likely wouldn’t in any other case hear. I’m significantly to listen to the commentary for the ending part of the sport.

For those who haven’t jumped into the sport but — first off, I’m jealous that you simply get to expertise it with contemporary eyes. Second, my colleague Adi Robertson’s evaluate makes the purpose that that is an journey that’s effectively value shopping for a VR headset. I’ve performed it, too, and may vouch that it’s a very enjoyable expertise that’s directly the good factor I’ve skilled in VR and every thing I needed within the subsequent Half-Life journey. You may choose it up at Steam for $59.99. It’ll work with any headset that helps SteamVR.