Possibly it must be known as Eighth-Life as a substitute of Half-Life…

We’ve just about needed to settle for the truth that Half-Life 3 isn’t going to occur. That’s… high quality, I suppose? We nonetheless have the unique two video games, plus Alyx for these of you who’ve a VR headset. Over time, followers have been difficult themselves to complete the Valve FPS collection in eye-wateringly fast instances, and there’s a brand new one which places a variety of runs to disgrace.

Just lately, the YouTube channel SourceRuns (by way of PCGamesN) uploaded a Half-Life 2 speedrun, particularly of Episode Two, that clocks in at a staggering 9:46. Accomplished by speedrunners jorik and qv2b, the run is the end result of 196 segmented items, which have been spliced collectively to provide this insanely fast time. It’s positively value a watch.

As soon as the sport begins, you’ll see simply how a lot each gamers are capable of skip previous large chunks of the sport utilizing exploits. In truth, a lot of the particular run itself takes place through the ultimate battle at White Forest. Right here, the motion actually slows down as Gordon Freeman defends the realm from a Strider assault. Evidently, gamers haven’t discovered a technique to bounce previous this half that doesn’t contain doing the precise combat.

Nonetheless, on the time of writing, jorik and qv2b’s video has not been featured on speedrun.com. This may very well be as a result of they use a modded model of Episode Two, which removes the cutscenes, thereby decreasing the time mechanically. Nonetheless, qv2b is second on the leaderboard, having achieved a time of 31:12:850 a 12 months in the past.

Half-Life 2 is well some of the influential FPS video games of all time, nearly surpassing the affect of its 1998 predecessor. To see individuals zooming via the sport, (and its expansions), in unbelievably fast trend exhibits how expert some have grow to be at guiding our mute scientist hero.

Andrew Heaton

Andrew has been a gamer because the seventeenth century Restoration interval. He now writes for a variety of on-line publications, contributing information and different articles. He doesn’t personal a powdered wig.

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