Barney begins his journey to work much like Gordon did, in a tram that takes him deep into the secretive yet now well-known Black Mesa Research Facility. What originally began as a bonus pack for the Dreamcast adaptation of Half-Life, Blue Shift has oddly enough come to the PC first, and may not ever see the light of day for the system it was originally planned for.Īs you probably already know from the preview, in Blue Shift you play as Barney Calhoun, the nervous yet rugged security guard from the original, who happens to be working the rather chaotic day Gordon Freeman accidentally opened an inter-dimensional gateway between the alien world of Xen and rural Nevada. Now we have Half-Life: Blue Shift - a stand-alone simultaneous telling of the orginal Black Mesa episode seen through the eyes of one of the security guards working at the facility.