Pick up that can! Half-Life 2: VR Mod releases today
PC VR users will today be able to experience City 17 in virtual reality as the fan made, third-party Half-Life 2: VR Mod by the Source VR Mod Team drops on Steam.
Having been worked on for close to a decade, the mod features full room scale presence and hand tracking with huge portions of the game modified to play appropriately in virtual reality.
The project is launching in public beta today and while the game is fully playable (providing you own the base HL2 package on Steam), more is planned as laid out in the developers roadmap including teleport movement, improved weapon handling and support for Episodes 1 and 2.
Rise and shine, Mister Freeman. Rise and... shine.
Half Life 2: VR Mod is a fan-made project, which adds full Virtual Reality support to the original 2004 PC gaming classic by Valve Software.
Become Gordon Freeman, pick up your crowbar, and immerse yourself in the world of Half-Life 2 like never before! Grab and throw objects with your hands, physically climb ladders and play catch with Dog as if you were really there. Fight the Combine in the streets of City 17 while manually reloading your guns. And even when you have the gravity gun, will you dare go to Ravenholm?!
Features:
Full room-scale VR with tracked motion controls. Physically walk around, pick up objects and climb ladders the way that only Virtual Reality allows.
Intuitive and realistic weapon interactions, with quick and easy weapon switching via a radial menu, ammo storage over your shoulder, functional iron-sights, two-handed weapons, and manual reloading.
Control options including; full left-handed support, a laser sight, and arcade style "quick reload".
Comfort features like motion vignette and 3rd person vehicle camera. (Note: there is currently no teleport movement option.)
Playable on any VR headset which is supported by SteamVR.
Half-Life 2: VR Mod requires that you own Half-Life 2 on Steam. Half-Life 2: VR Mod was not created by Valve Software.
Half-Life 2: VR Mod (Steam listing)
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