For Half-Life 2: Episode Two on the PC, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "So how long is this ?". By this point, most people have given up on the idea that we'll ever see Half-Life 3, the long awaited follow-up to 2007's Half-Life 2: Episode 2, but a new plot posted online by longtime series Half-Life 3 (o, en su defecto, Half-Life 2: Episode 3) es, sin duda, uno de los juego más demandados por la comunidad desde años y que Valve, sin embargo, ha ignorado. If Half Life 3 ever becomes a thing then you should absolutely play episode 2. Other than that, they're not bad games just not quite as epic as a full length game can be (shorter development cycles meant tech upgrades were fairly minor, and with only about 6-8 hours of gameplay they have limited opportunity for story telling) Browse 3 mods for Half-Life 2: Episode 2 at Nexus Mods. Replaces some of the half life 2 audio with its black mesa counter parts. This is going to be a long 2007 passed with no Half-Life 2: Episode 3, but Valve has also always been known to take as much time as needed on its games. RELATED: The Long Wait for Half-Life 3 . Half-Life. Half-Life 2: Episode Three is a cancelled game that was planned as the final installment in the Half-Life 2 episodic trilogy. Although the game never reached a finished state from which a definite plot summary can be formed, Episode Three would have presumably picked up after Episode Two's It was the first official Half-Life game since Half-Life 2: Episode Two, which was released 12 years prior, and the first full-length Half-Life game since Half-Life 2, which was released 15 years prior. It runs on the Source 2 engine, the long in-development successor to the original Source engine. Half-Life 2: Episode Three was slated to arrive Christmas 2007. It didn't. As the weeks and months went by, confused fans tried to glean whatever information they could from Valve, but, by and Starting in around July 2008, development of Half-Life 2 Episode 3 was pretty much complete. Both the developers and Valve decided that the work that was done, whIle good, wasn't the best way to end the series off on an already ancient engine. The developers almost all moved over to other projects such as Portal 2, L4D2, L4D3, VR, TF2, and CSGO. rmSACVR.