Twenty years later, the leap should be even more pronounced.īlueshift isn’t a long game-in fact, it can be finished at once-and it’s a rare game spoken from a low-level mook perspective. Released a few years after Half-Life, the original Blue Shift has added an “HD Texture Pack” to make Half-Life look sharper.
HECU Collective means Black Mesa: Blue Shift is exactly what you’d expect: Half-Life: Blue Shift update with all the enhancements and new features found in the latest Black Mesa. Thanks to a group of modders called HECU Collective, FPS games are jumping into Black Mesa. It’s a 2001 add-on to Valve’s original Half-Life, telling the story of its fateful day at the Black Mesa Research Facility from the perspective of Gordon’s guard, Barney Calhoun.
Gearbox Software is most commonly associated with the Borderlands series these days, but decades ago it was also responsible for the development of Half-Life: BlueShift.