{"id":47,"date":"2005-02-13T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/replicatedmeat.nocturne.org\/wordpress\/?p=47"},"modified":"2022-02-19T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T18:59:24","slug":"half-life-blue-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life: Blue Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/51NGY559RXL-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/51NGY559RXL-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/51NGY559RXL.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/>Last night, I got around to hooking up my new computer speakers. Once you have an upgrade like that, your only choice is to dig out a new game. Conveniently, I had an old new game laying around, in the form of <a title=\"Half-Life: Blue Shift for the PC, at Amazon.\" href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00005BIQK\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half-Life: Blue Shift<\/a>, the second and final expansion of the original game.<\/p>\n<p>In the third perspective of the Black Mesa incident, security guard Barney Calhoun finds himself surrounded by a collapsing experimental facility, terrified scientists, impersonal military clean-up crews, and hideous alien monstrosities. In other words, if you&#8217;re looking for something new and different, pick up Half-Life 2 instead.<\/p>\n<p>The game is short in a way that I haven&#8217;t experienced since <a title=\"Luigi's Mansion for the Gamecube, at Amazon. If you are a fan of videogames in general or if you are a fan of Luigi in particular, do not buy this game. It kind of makes a mockery of both things in the previous list.\" href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00005Q8LR\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luigi&#8217;s Mansion<\/a>. It doesn&#8217;t have any new monsters or weapons, or even all the monsters or weapons from either of the previous two games. It <em>does<\/em> have the same Half-Life charm, though. Puzzle-solving at its finest in a shooter, occasional scares, a well-realized world, and people to save who, unlike in previous episodes, you actually have a chance of saving. The only thing that makes it hard to recommend is that the G-Man has far too light a touch. But that&#8217;s okay. That&#8217;s what Half-Life 2 is for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I got around to hooking up my new computer speakers. Once you have an upgrade like that, your only choice is to dig out a new game. Conveniently, I had an old new game laying around, in the form of Half-Life: Blue Shift, the second and final expansion of the original game. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[796,378,780,1253,841],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-expansion","tag-first-person-shooter","tag-fps","tag-pc","tag-short"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}