There's a security guard on a platform banging on a door holding a flashlight. If you remember, in the original Half-Life, when Gordon starts his day at work, he rides a tram into the Black Mesa. Randy Pitchford: In Blue Shift, you play as the Barney Calhoun. We know that you play as the security guard Barney, but what is his role in the whole Black Mesa fiasco? IGNPC: Take us through the plot premise a bit. bsp files.We recently had a chance to talk to Gearbox's Chief Designer, Randy Pitchford, about the upcoming game, and here's what he had to say about the mission structure, new weapons, and graphical enhancements we'll find in Half-Life: Blue Shift. bspfix is a program that converts to and from Blue Shift. bsp files compiled with the regular compile tools will not load. The G-Man himself does not appear to the extent seen in Half-Life and Opposing Force.īlue Shift uses a slightly modified version of the GoldSource engine, and as a result. Stanley Rosenberg and two other scientists named Walter and Simmons escape the facility. The main focus of the game is in assisting a Dr. Gearbox added a new twist to the Half-Life saga by making Blue Shift the first game to feature a main character in game other than the player and the G-Man.
New sounds were given to the shotgun and assault rifle. All weapon models have received more detailed meshes and textures, including new animations. Weapon models are also included, the MP5 submachine gun has been replaced with a M4/M203 assault rifle and the Glock with a Beretta 92. This upgrades many models and textures to a higher quality, notably with the security guards, scientists, HECU forces and a number of Xen creatures. Blue Shift does still imply that these exist, mainly as soldiers can often be heard cutting through a door using the same sounds from Opposing Force.Īs mentioned above, Gearbox included a High Definition Pack in Blue Shift. The HECU soldiers return to their original Half-Life form and AI, there are no longer any visible engineers, medics or machine gunners. The available armory is entirely from the original game, however not all of the weapons can be found in-game. There are no new weapons at all, however a pre-release trailer showed the existence of a wieldable flashlight weapon. However, none of the new Opposing Force weapons appear, save from the Desert Eagle on the Otis model. Some Opposing Force content is used, most notably the return of the security guard model Otis. However this is probably due to the fact that Blue Shift's story is over by the time Opposing Force starts, and these two groups only become fully involved late in Opposing Force. Race-X does not turn up, nor do the Black Operations. Interestingly, very little of Opposing Force content appears in Blue Shift. Blue Shift and the High Definition Pack were made available through Steam in August 2005.īlue Shift draws most of its game content from the original Half-Life. As a result, Blue Shift is a shorter game than both Half-Life and Opposing Force.īlue Shift was released in 2001. The left-over content was bundled with Opposing Force and migrated to the PC.
However, the Dreamcast port's release was cancelled by Sierra following declining console support. It also included a high definition pack of higher detail models and improved sounds to accommodate for the general increase in hardware power since Half-Life's initial release.
Blue Shift was originally a game developed by Gearbox Software, exclusively for the Dreamcast version of Half-Life.
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