It wasn't a big hit, facing criticism for being too short and predictable, but it did manage to turn an anonymous security flunkie NPC into an important and memorable supporting character, which I've always thought was a pretty nifty trick. Isaac Kleiner was Gordons mentor and teacher at MIT in the game Half-Life. The original Half-Life: Blue Shift came out in 2001 and followed the adventures of Black Mesa Research Facility security guard Barney Calhoun as he made his way out of the doomed facility. And it does have some experience in the field, having previously released the Black Mesa mods Black Ops and Azure Sheep. It's not clear how far along development is at this point, but the team shared some screens and said that it hopes to announce a demo soon. Called Black Mesa: Blue Shift (opens in new tab), it will make use of Black Mesa resources and be developed in the same style, and like Black Mesa will be released in chapters. One morning, as usual, he pits his way to the research facility for a run-of-the-mill experiment. Now a new group calling itself HECU Collective has begun work on a similar overhaul for the Gearbox-developed Half-Life expansion Blue Shift. The scientist Gordon Freeman is a Black Mesa employee.
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