#HALF LIFE BLUE SHIFT LOADING DOCK SOFTWARE#

This explains to a degree why BS is the way it is.īarney Calhoun, community college graduate extraordinaire, is the protagonist of BS and the third member of the Half-Life triumvirate. For unexplained reasons, Sierra dropped the hammer on the Dreamcast version shortly after announcing BS was coming to the PC. BS was to be an addition to the Dreamcast version of Half-Life, a kind of 'secret' level unlocked after you finished the game. When playing Half-Life: Blue Shift (BS) it helps to understand the history of how it came to the PC. Half-Life: Blue Shift is a stand-alone product and does not require any previously released version of the Half-Life. The maps were created by designers with credits for games such as Quake, Thief II, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, SiN, Unreal and Shadow Warrior. In addition to the two expansion episodes, the original Half-Life: Opposing Force missions, and the High Definition pack, Blue Shift contains a collection of online multiplayer modes OpFor: On-Line that includes team play, deathmatch, and capture the flag levels. In Half-Life: Opposing Force, which was named PC Action Game of the Year in 2000 by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, you play as Corporal Adrian Shephard, a military specialist assigned to eliminate Freeman. Half-Life: Blue Shift puts you in the role of Barney Calhoun, a security guard and ally of Gordon Freeman (from the original game) who infiltrates the Black Mesa Research Facility to explore previously unavailable areas while dealing with an entirely new storyline.

The 3D-accelerated High Definition pack upgrades weapons and characters in the original Half-Life as well as the new episodes.

#HALF LIFE BLUE SHIFT LOADING DOCK SOFTWARE#

Gearbox Software follows their commercially successful Half-Life: Opposing Force with a 'complete expansion set' that includes not only the Opposing Force game and the Half-Life HD pack, but an additional two episodes.

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