Just like it happened with the original Half-life Last year – in honor of the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking first-person shooter with a major update, a documentary and a 100% sale – Valve celebrated the perhaps even more influential Half-life 2‘s 20th anniversary with, you guessed it, an update, a documentary and a 100% sale.
Valve made the announcement and detailed all the changes a new website for the game. Notably, that update includes the usual mix of bug fixes and graphical improvements, a developer commentary track – a practice common to all Half-Life and Portal games following the release of Half-life 2 benefited from – as well as improvements at the Steam platform level in the form of Steam Workshop support and the new Steam game recording.
“Every card in.” Half-life 2 “It has been looked at by Valve level designers to fix long-standing bugs, restore content and features lost to time, and improve the quality of a few things like lightmap resolution and fog,” details Valve on the site. Role way down for a much more comprehensive list of all changes.
A bigger improvement to the game is the addition of Half-life 2‘s episodic expansions, Episode 1 And Episode 2. Surprisingly, and unfortunately, this does not include any confirmation of a conclusion in the form of the never-released Episode 3although Valve does talk about the inability to achieve that ending in the two-hour documentary.
“We could have sent it. It wouldn’t have been that hard,” says Valve’s Gabe Newell, exuding a new lewk as he sends an entire generation of gamers into a dark spiral. “My personal failure was disrupted. I couldn’t figure out why episode 3 brought anything up.”
And if somehow you didn’t end up in some way Half-life 2 in your Steam library from the past 20 years, first… congratulations? That actually seems difficult to do. Second, you’ll be happy to know that it’s currently on offer, upgrades and all, for the low price of $0.00 until November 18, just two days away. Add it permanently to your library by go here and click the green Download button, and send it to your grandchildren.
Speaking of downloads, Valve’s anniversary site also includes links to historical videos of the game, such as high-quality recordings of previously unavailable E3 demos, as well as a host of new wallpapers and links to download or listen to the various soundtracks.