{"id":35080,"date":"2020-10-24T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/?p=2646912"},"modified":"2020-10-24T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T10:26:09","slug":"half-life-alyx-mod-puts-bioshocks-rapture-into-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/half-life-alyx-mod-puts-bioshocks-rapture-into-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life: Alyx mod puts BioShock\u2019s Rapture into VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Half-Life-Alyx-BioShock-mod.jpg?w=1200&amp;strip=all\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside id class=\"MainBlock__sidebar\"> <\/aside>\n<p><!-- #secondary .widget-area --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The latest jaw-dropping <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/03\/23\/half-life-alyx-interview-reviving-an-iconic-franchise-with-vr\/\">Half-Life: Alyx<\/a> mod brings the iconic world of <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/12\/09\/2k-launches-cloud-chamber-game-studio-to-make-the-next-bioshock-game\/\">BioShock\u2019s Rapture<\/a> to VR for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The mod from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=2236102052&amp;searchtext=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">developer wim.buytaert.1988<\/a> acts as a fusion of both series, playing with the idea of Alyx herself crash-landing in the derelict underwater world of Rapture. Ken Levine and Irrational Games\u2019 unforgettable lost utopia is re-created through a mix of repurposed Alyx assets and some all-new creations based upon locations in Rapture. It\u2019s basically playable fan-fiction.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pretty amazing bit of work, even if it doesn\u2019t translate the world of Rapture into VR fully. You\u2019ll be missing the underground views of the city itself, for example, but the core elements of much of the game\u2019s unforgettable opening have been retained. Trekking through the ruins in VR is a pretty amazing experience. Mostly, you start to realize how much the ruined worlds of Rapture and City 17 have in common, not just with convenient asset matches but also their enigmatic leaders and more.<\/p>\n<p>The beginnings of the mod offer around 25 minutes of gameplay, though wim.buytaert.1988 says they\u2019re unsure if there will be other chapters unless they get support on Patreon. Either way, this is the closest we\u2019ll be getting to BioShock VR for now.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the latest in a series of pretty incredible mods we\u2019ve seen for Alyx. Back in August we&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/half-life-1-alyx-mod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">played the original Half-Life<\/a>&nbsp;inside the latest entry of the series and another modder is making environments from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/project-17-mod-half-life-2-vr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Half-Life 2 inside of Alyx, too.<\/a>&nbsp; They might not be official, but they\u2019ll tide us over until we know if Valve will developer another Half-Life VR game.<\/p>\n<p><i>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/half-life-alyx-bioshock-mod\/\">Uploadvr.com<\/a>. Copyright 2020<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"boilerplate_2640646\" class=\"post-boilerplate boilerplate-after\">\n<hr>\n<p> <b>You can&#8217;t solo security<\/b> COVID-19 game security report: Learn the latest attack trends in gaming. <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/09\/30\/you-cant-solo-security-covid-19-game-security-report\/\">Access here<\/a> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><!-- .article-content --> <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/venturebeat\/SZYF\/~3\/EJL9Jv1eUIA\/\">By VentureBeat Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest jaw-dropping Half-Life: Alyx mod brings the iconic world of BioShock\u2019s Rapture to VR for the first time. The mod from&nbsp;developer wim.buytaert.1988 acts as a fusion of both series, playing with the idea of Alyx herself crash-landing in the derelict underwater world of Rapture. Ken Levine and Irrational Games\u2019 unforgettable lost utopia is re-created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14083],"tags":[16469,16421,14802,16420],"class_list":{"0":"post-35080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology-industry-news","7":"tag-ar-vr","8":"tag-category-games-computer-video-games","9":"tag-games","10":"tag-pc-gaming"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}