Half-Life: Alyx Has Exclusive Content If You Buy A Valve Index This Year

It’s been a long time coming, but Valve finally unveiled a new installment in its seminal Half-Life series, titled Half-Life: Alyx. The game is expected to launch on Steam in March 2020 and will be a “full-length” VR-only adventure set between the events of the original title and Half-Life 2. While Half-Life: Alyx is playable on all Steam-compatible VR headsets, you can get the game for free if you own Valve Index, and it’ll also come with some additional content–provided you buy one in time.

If you pick up Valve Index by the end of this year, you’ll receive a handful of exclusive bonuses. First, you’ll receive alternate gun skins in Half-Life: Alyx. You’ll also be able to explore environments from the game in your SteamVR Home space, and there will be “special” content themed after Half-Life: Alyx in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

You’ll get access to all of this additional content starting early 2020. You can read more about the Valve Index bonuses on the official Half-Life website.

As previously mentioned, you’ll also get Half-Life: Alyx for free if you own Valve Index. If you’re interested in playing it on other headsets, the game is available for pre-order right now on Steam, and you can get a 10% discount on it as part of a special promotion that runs through March 30, 2020.

Valve Index was released this past June and is Valve’s flagship VR headset. The company says Index was “built hand-in-hand” with Half-Life: Alyx, but it comes at a steep price–the headset alone is $499, while the Index kit retails for $999. GameSpot’s Michael Higham went hands-on with Valve Index and said, “It’s easy to see how Index can push VR gaming forward. However, like all enthusiastic-level platforms, it comes at a significant cost.”

Half-Life: Alyx arrives 13 years after the series’ last release, 2007’s Half-Life 2: Episode 2, which ended on a cliffhanger. You can read everything we know about Half-Life: Alyx so far in our roundup, and you can check out the first Half-Life: Alyx trailer here.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/half-life-alyx-has-exclusive-content-if-you-buy-a-/1100-6471632/