Rosenberg then teleports Calhoun to the Xen border world to calibrate research equipment needed to pinpoint a teleport destination outside of Black Mesa. After freeing Rosenberg from the captivity of the US Marines detachment sent to silence the facility, Calhoun escorts him to a decommissioned prototype teleportation laboratory, where several Black Mesa employees have already gathered. Rosenberg and his colleagues plan to escape the facility using teleportation technology. Emerging near Black Mesa's classification yards, Calhoun learns that Dr. The elevator is badly damaged and fails, sending Calhoun plummeting into the depths of Black Mesa.Ĭalhoun regains consciousness at the bottom of the shaft and begins to fight his way to the surface to escape. As Calhoun finishes repairs, however, Freeman's experiment takes place and results in a "resonance cascade", causing massive damage to the facility and teleporting alien creatures into the base.
After reporting for duty, Calhoun is instructed to assist in maintenance on a malfunctioning elevator. With the Half-Life engine becoming eclipsed by newer, sleeker next generation FPS games, a slight change from the norm could help revitalize this game.Plot Overview Blue Shift begins in a similar manner to Half-Life, as Barney Calhoun rides a train through the Black Mesa facility to reach his place of work. If we could see a new style of tactics, vehicles, or perhaps just a modular weapon system, it would add months to the life of this PC classic. Gearbox has managed to produce an engaging, detailed storyline yet again (see Opposing Force for more details), but hasn’t added anything new to the basic Half-Life engine itself. I’d like to take a moment to say that this is usually the most disappointing thing about expansion packs, something I’d like to see remedied. Much like other add-on packs, Half-Life gameplay isn’t improved or even changed by the Blue Shift expansion pack. If you don’t have a copy of Opposing Force, the Blue Shift CD takes care of all your troubles.
Along with the high-definition pack is a full copy of the Opposing Force add-on, the first expansion pack made by Gearbox. Although the pack is free for download from Valve, the makers of Half-Life, it is still convenient to have a copy on CD.
The first is the high-definition pack an add-on for Half-Life that allows it to take advantage of newer video cards, with new, highly detailed textures and skins. As an added bonus, Blue Shift comes with two extra items.
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