Half-Life<\/em> remake will be complete, approximately 13 years after it began.<\/p> Xen has always been a contentious setting, and Crowbar Collective is trying to reverse that mindset with a re-imagining. “We want to do Xen the justice it deserves, and have it be the definitive climax to the Half-Life 1<\/em> story. To do this we have completely redesigned and expanded the Xen levels to what we think Valve would have done without the limitations of the time,” Crowbar said. It also noted that the levels will be “substantially bigger” and that there will be more of them.<\/span><\/p> It takes moxie to vastly expand Xen, especially when you know that the alien world is what most everyone never liked about the game in the first place. Either we’ll get a much more bearable Xen, or much more of the same Xen (which would probably be a bummer). 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