![]() ![]() ![]() To be fair, it doesn’t have an obvious “awe” element like Opposing Force did. Yet Blue Shift holds a contentious place in the Half-Life fandom. Barney and a handful of scientists are trying to escape the facility in the wake of the Resonance Cascade that kicks off the entire series, in a story that runs parallel to the preceding campaigns (with some direct crossovers with Gordon’s). Originally part of a near-complete Dreamcast port, Blue Shift stars Black Mesa security guard Barney Calhoun. RELATED: Goldeneye 007 Remaster Gameplay Leaked It was impressive for its time, but Opposing Force’s proto-Uncharted antics aren’t as important as Gearbox’s penultimate contribution to the Half-Life saga - Blue Shift. Designed more around spectacle, explosions, and gimmicks, Opposing Force expanded the Half-Life formula in a new direction. Adrian Shepard in Opposing Force was as much a perfect opposite to Freeman as was his campaign. The Black Mesa Incident may have been Gordon Freeman’s rise to heroism, but two other survivors weren’t so lucky.ĭeveloped by Gearbox (yep, of future Borderlands fame), each expansion explores a wildly different take on the Black Mesa incident. It’s rare for a game to explore what that feels like, but Half-Life’s PC expansions, Blue Shift and Opposing Force, offered two wildly different perspectives. They just want to end their shift and go home, but here they are stuck in the middle of a life-altering scenario as some player rips through the world, blasting zombie-aliens from who knows where. We should be able get you fairly close to where survey team had set up, but I fear the likelihood of running into alien creatures is very high.The life of an NPC isn’t an easy one. I'm afraid you're the only one that can do this, seeing as how everyone else will be needed to run the equipment. In order any of us to get out of here alive, someone will need go to the borderworld, and activate the device. We later discovered other methods of aiming the field, but all the equipment in this lab uses the older technology. We lost contact with the survey group shortly after the device was in place. This device could then be used as a focal point and relay to aid in the teleportation. ![]() Some of the more promising research on the matter led to a device that could be attached to the strange crystalline structures we found in this borderworld. ![]() We discovered a strange borderworld that was somehow involved in the process, and this kept us from accurately predicting where any given teleportation event would lead to back on Earth. Calhoun, teleportation isn't as simple as going from point A to point B. Once we were able to consistently create the teleporter field, we ran into new problems. Interestingly, all of their first person models except for the Tau Cannon have Barney's hands on them instead of Gordon's. Unused Weapons Gluon Gun, Tau Cannon, Crossbow, Laser Trip MineĪll of the models for the Crossbow, Tau Cannon, Gluon Gun, and Laser Trip Mine exist in the game's files. This also includes content that was unused in the original game, such as the cut enemies. 4.2 Captivation Digital Laboratories LogoĪll of the art, code, and sounds from the original game is in Blue Shift, most of it unused.2.1 Gluon Gun, Tau Cannon, Crossbow, Laser Trip Mine. ![]()
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