Throughout the first part of the game the player sees how Black Mesa has been falling apart. Barney collects his uniform and firearm from the sector 3 security room and goes to work. The game starts off with Barney riding a tram very similar to the one that Gordon rides in Half-Life.
Plot A Marine guarding the Train Station in Blue Shift.īarney is a low ranking security guard at Black Mesa during the time of the resonance cascade. The HD Pack can also be used with both the original game and the previous expansion.Ī standalone version of the game was released digitally (via Steam) by Valve on Aug(with support for Mac and Linux added later on July 31, 2013). Unlike the previous expansion, Blue Shift does not introduce new weaponry or enemies.Īlong with the campaign, the retail release includes the previous expansion (with the international release limited to the multiplayer component) and a special High Definition Pack (which revamps most of the original game's models and textures with higher detail). Much of the game is the same as the original, with the exception of a traditional body armor system (as Calhoun does not have access to a HEV Suit used in the main game). After regaining consciousness, Calhoun must fight through numerous aliens and HECU soldiers to find a way out of the complex. While performing maintenance on a malfunctioning elevator, the accident occurs and the elevator plummets deep into the complex. Players assume the role of Barney Calhoun, a rookie Black Mesa security officer (and silent protagonist) who was briefly seen at the beginning of the original game (in a scene that is mirrored in beginning of this game). The second of two official expansions to Half-Life (the other being Half-Life: Opposing Force) and originally developed as an exclusive to the unreleased Dreamcast port of that game, Blue Shift takes place during the main story of the original game (where the secretive Black Mesa Research Facility is being invaded by inter-dimensional aliens after an experiment gone wrong) and is played from a different perspective: one of the complex's security guards. Half-Life: Blue Shift is a sci-fi horror first-person shooter developed by Gearbox and published by Sierra for the PC on Jas an official expansion pack to Valve's 1998 game Half-Life. Overview Some example improvements of the expansion's HD Texture Pack.
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