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Half-Life: Blue ShiftGame

Originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations.
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Half-Life: Blue Shift FAQ


Which perspective do you play from in Half-Life: Blue Shift?
Half-Life: Blue Shift has a first-person perspective.

seriesHalf-Life
developerGearbox Software
publisherSierra On-Line
Valve Corporation

composerStephen Bahl
Chris Jensen
 engineGoldSrc
release date
NAJune 12th, 2001
M for Mature

Single PlayerSci-FiFirst-PersonShootingPuzzle
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on November 18th, 2023 last updatedby blustrkr
on August 14th, 2024

Developer Updates / Related News


Barney returns tomorrow in Chapter 4 of Black Mesa's Blue Shift mod
If I were a security guard at Black Mesa, my head would get crabbed within minutes of a resonance cascade. Not so for Barney Calhoun, who fought his way free of the facility back in Valve's 2001 Half-Life expansion, "Blue Shift". Modding team HECU Collective have been forcing him to run that gauntlet again, so far releasing 3 chapters to their mod for "Black Mesa" - not the fictional company, but the very real (and good) fan remake of the original Half-Life. Chapter 4: Captive Freight comes out tomo... A new Half-Life would have to be VR
Like Doc Brown, I once hit my head and saw the future. I didn't come round in the bathroom having the idea for the Flux Capacitor, but I did bonk my noggin pretty hard in the office games room and sit back, dazed but delighted with what had just happened. I was playing the Budget Cuts demo on Valve's room-scale VR. Budget Cuts is a game about infiltrating an office that's patrolled with deadly robots. Because of the room-scale VR, you're really there: your actual body is your in-game body. This ... Blue Shift update released
A Half-Life update is now available that affects Blue Shift through shared resources. Please see the Half-Life update notes for details. Half-Life: Blue Shift update released
A small update for Half-Life: Blue Shift is now available: Engine Fixed bug in skybox image loading Fixed bug in demo command processing Prevent certain path characters from being used in commands Enforce certain extensions be used for files specified in some commands Half-Life gets new patch, almost 19 years after launch
Though "Half-Life" is almost nineteen years old and "its sanctioned fan remake Black Mesa is nearing completion", Valve have launched a wee patch for their "pretty okay or whatever" vintage FPS. The patch fixes a few crashes and exploits, and hit other Half-Life engine games too, such as classic Counter-Strike. Given how much of modern PC games history connects to Half-Life and its mod scene, I’m glad Valve are still tinkering a little. Earlier this year, they finally got Half-Life "an uncensored..."
 
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