Chapters from each game, discussed and analysed. Many were part of the The Replay Experience Experiment. A special event to replay all the Half-Life games in order of release and discuss our thoughts and reflections.
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The training chapter of Half-Life: Blue Shift set in the Training Facility.
The “Black Mesa Hazard Course for Security Guard Training” trains the player to effectively use their uniform, how to move around and interact with the environment and how to use weapons.
Scientists (such as Rosenberg) can be seen watching the player during the training.
Again, I am very pleased to announce the release of, what I am sure is without doubt, the most comprehensive walkthrough of Opposing Force available.
It was made possible by the writing and research of Stanley E. Dunigan and the formatting skills of William Barnard.
Together, we have created a PDF version that can be viewed both online and printed.
18th January 2013 1 Comment
After making his way through warehouses filled with Race X creatures and Black Ops fighting, Adrian Shephard arrives at an old industrial area of Black Mesa where an enormous Gene Worm is attempting to come through a portal from the Race X homeworld.
Shephard uses mounted laser weapons to blind and kill it; in its death throes, an enormous teleportation portal spreads outwards and envelops him.
24th October 2012 13 Comments
This chapter details Adrian Shephard’s discovery of the mysterious Black Ops’ plan for Black Mesa.
He finds them in an underground parking garage, activating the thermonuclear warhead from the fourth chapter, apparently with the intent of destroying the facility.
23rd October 2012 9 Comments
Details the fierce battle raging between the Race X creatures, the Black Ops contingent, including several snipers, and the remnants of the HECU in the last hours of the Black Mesa Incident.
Adrian Shephard makes his way through the underground canals and sewers of Black Mesa, fighting through a Voltigore nest, and arrives at the hydroelectric dam featured in the first game.
22nd October 2012 8 Comments
The chapter details Adrian Shephard’s battle with the monstrous Pit Worm which is blocking his progress through Waste Processing Area 3.
Working his way through the surrounding area (littered with the corpses of the Marines who sent the distress signal in the previous chapter), Shephard manages to dump toxic waste on the Pit Worm, killing it and allowing him to access the next area.
21st October 2012 10 Comments
Adrian Shephard is travelling between various biosphere chambers and laboratories featuring massive terrariums used to house Xen fauna being studied by the scientists deep within the Sector E Biodome Complex.
Eventually he reaches an older industrial area, and picks up a radio transmission from a group of marines fighting some kind of massive creature.
16th October 2012 11 Comments
In this chapter, Adrian Shephard finds himself in underwater laboratories where several Ichthyosaurs are being held.
After making his way through the labs and freeing a scientist who provides him with information on the area, Shephard is again forced to teleport to Xen and back again to reach a new part of Black Mesa.
14th October 2012 12 Comments
It serves as a short interlude in the game with reminders of events from the original Half-Life.
Having arrived at the Lambda complex, Adrian Shephard sees Gordon Freeman teleported to Xen.
Shephard is also forced to travel through Xen to find a way out of the Lambda complex.
14th October 2012 13 Comments
Details Adrian Shephard and other HECU soldier’s attempt to find and use an old transit system to escape to the Lambda Core, after battling through an office complex filled with aliens.
It is also the chapter in which the Black Ops are first introduced. Shephard comes across them in a hangar where they are loading a nuclear warhead into the back of a truck.
This is where the player learns that the Black Ops soldiers have been sent to kill the remaining HECU Marines and cover up the Black Mesa incident.
Shephard meets up with several other surviving marines and fights the Black Ops, eventually reaching an underground railway system that leads to the Lambda complex.
13th October 2012 10 Comments
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21st January 2013 12 Comments