
By some sequence of events, after escaping the Black Mesa research facility in New Mexico, Eli and Alyx end up in.

The website for Half-Life: Alyx specifies that the story not only takes place between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, but that Alyx and Eli have been secretly building a resistance for years since being relocated to City 17. How Did Everyone From Black Mesa End Up In City 17? Hopefully Half-Life: Alyx will give us some idea of what the G-Man's plan is and why Alyx has to live her life in harm's way while Gordon keeps getting plucked out of time at the G-Man's whim. Then, Eli finally tells Gordon Freeman that he, too, has interacted with the G-Man: the G-Man both delivered the crystal that set off the resonance cascade in Half-Life, and also rescued Alyx from Black Mesa.Įarlier in Episode Two, the G-Man tells Gordon that he saved Alyx despite "objections that she was a mere child and of no practical use to anyone." The G-Man is clearly playing a different sort of game with Alyx than he is with Gordon, who the G-Man basically seems to see as resourceful, silent, goateed muscle. In Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the G-Man delivers a warning ("prepare for unforeseen consequences") to Alyx's father Eli Vance by using Alyx as a seemingly hypnotized messenger. Here are the five most-pressing questions Half-Life: Alyx needs to answer in some way when it comes to SteamVR-compatible headsets in March of 2020: What Is The G-Man's Plan For Alyx? Truly, we're going to learn a lot with the release of Half-Life: Alyx, no matter how it's received. When it goes live, analysts will watch the player counts to see if a decades-old FPS series can really get VR headsets into more homes. The corresponding release of Geoff Keighley's "Final Hours" story on Half-Life: Alyx's development will shed light on other projects Valve has kept secret over the last several years. Half-Life: Alyx seems poised to fill in gaps in the series' largely ambiguous story. Its existence certainly raises questions for the Half-Life series, for Valve as a studio, and the future of virtual reality. Without straying into hype territory, it feels safe to say Half-Life: Alyx is a capital-B, capital-D Big Deal.

Last week, Valve announced the first Half-Life game in over a decade, and on Thursday the world got to see its first footage.
