Last Saturday we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the launch of Half-life 2something that can be considered an important milestone in the history of video games and which, even today, two decades later, continues to captivate players. players of the PC. So it was normal that Valve will launch to celebrate this event with gifts to fans, who will be able to join these days to relive the adventures of the mythical Gordon Freemanabsolute protagonist of this saga. Even if there are other equally important characters.
The fact is, as we told you last week, Valve He wasn’t going to miss the opportunity to celebrate these 20 years and he decided to do so. Not just give Half-life 2 with a 100% discount (as the folks at Gabe Newell claim with some sarcasm), but they decided to include a lot more things that you probably didn’t have on the radar of potential holiday-related gifts the birthday of one of the best ever.
Valve comes with everything for Half-Life 2
This is how things are happening and as advertised Valve in your store Steamwhat they did was design a pack which has everything of a classic. Not only the delivery that we are celebrating today, but much more content that they take advantage of to put in the entire package. As the company announces, “they also include Episode one Yes Episode two. Half-life 2 now includes extensions Episode one Yes Episode two with the base game. You can access it from the main menu and you will automatically move on to the next expansion after completing each one.
This is new because it wasn’t like this in the past, since they had different executables. So the experience Half-life 2 It is now focused and much more accessible. But there’s more, because we can take advantage of “developer feedback to Half‑Life 2. While the episodes have always had commentary tracks, the base game never had one…until now. We managed to convince the team to re-record three and a half hours of new behind-the-scenes commentary for Half-life 2“.
As if that were not enough and if you are one of those who like to play with games, this new free edition of Half-life 2 has “compatibility with Steam Workshop integrated. Explore, install and enjoy user-created content to Half-life 2 without having to leave the game. Look for it in the “Extras” menu! directly.
Bug fixes…and one last surprise
But things don’t stop there. For this 20th anniversary edition, errors have been corrected and [añadido] new graphics options. Visual issues have been fixed, elf that were missing and the lighting differences introduced in updates over the years. Additionally, we added some tweaks to increase the visual fidelity of Half-life 2 beyond what was allowed in the original version.
And finally, a surprising surprise: There is a documentary! And after the good experience with the video which celebrated the 25 years of Half-life it went so well that Valve wanted to repeat, so that “it’s a story that goes beyond the creation of a game: running out of money, hacks and the leak of a preliminary version on the internet, the publisher’s lawsuits, the attempt to create Steam… It’s all there! In addition to the exclusive presentations of E3 2002 and 2003 or Siggraph 2000.
