Half-Life: Blue Shift

***Half-Life: Blue Shift***, is a 2001 first-person shooter game, and is the nineteenth game to be played on Butt Spectrum Club. The playthrough started on March 15th, 2022 and was finished on June 21st, that same year. Half-Life: Blue Shift is the third entree of the ***Half-Life Series*** and is an expansion for the game ***Half-Life***, is the sequel to ***Half-Life: Opposing Force***, and was followed up by ***Half-Life: Decay***.

## Game Info

Half-Life: Blue Shift is a 2001 first-person shooter game developed by Gearbox Software and was published by Sierra On-Line for Microsoft Windows, and then OS X and Linux in 2013.

In 1999, a group of modders created the fan made mod Sven co-op for the original Half-Life, that made it possible to playthrough Half-Life, and it's two expansions Half-Life: Blue Shift and Half-Life: Opposing Force with co-op.

The game takes place around the same time as Half-Life, but you play as a Black Mesa Security Guard named Barney Calhoun, who during the resonance cascade, works with Dr. Rosenberg to evacuate Black Mesa personnel.

## Playthrough

The playthrough has ***Algernon*** and ***GhostinGhostout*** playing cooperatively with the use of the Sven co-op mod, where the two work together to escape Black Mesa. The two roleplayed as Gregory the Security Guard and Felix, Gregory's cross-dressing boyfriend.

## Plot

Blue Shift begins in a similar manner to Half-Life, as Barney Calhoun rides a train through the Black Mesa facility to reach his place of work. After reporting for duty, Calhoun is instructed to assist in maintenance on a malfunctioning elevator. As Calhoun finishes repairs, however, Freeman's experiment takes place and results in a "resonance cascade", causing massive damage to the facility and teleporting alien creatures into the base. The elevator is badly damaged and fails, sending Calhoun plummeting into the depths of Black Mesa.

Calhoun regains consciousness at the bottom of the shaft and begins to fight his way to the surface to escape. Emerging near Black Mesa's classification yards, Calhoun learns that Dr. Rosenberg (Jon St. John) and his colleagues plan to escape the facility using teleportation technology. After freeing Rosenberg from the captivity of the US Marines detachment sent to silence the facility, Calhoun escorts him to a decommissioned prototype teleportation laboratory, where several Black Mesa employees have already gathered. Rosenberg then teleports Calhoun to the Xen border world to calibrate research equipment needed to pinpoint a teleport destination outside of Black Mesa. Upon his return, Rosenberg informs Calhoun that the teleporter's battery power has been exhausted, and contact has been lost with a team sent to acquire a new power cell.

Calhoun travels to the power generators on a lower level to find a fresh power cell while firefights rage between the Marines and the forces of Xen. After returning with a new power cell, Calhoun assists Rosenberg in evacuating the few surviving personnel through the teleporter. Calhoun is the last to enter the portal and as he does so, Marines breach the laboratory and fire on him, causing the teleporter to explode. As a result of the teleporter's destruction, Calhoun enters a "harmonic reflux", causing him to be rapidly teleported to a variety of locations in Xen and Black Mesa. At one location, he witnesses Freeman's capture by Marines midway through Half-Life, before eventually stabilizing at the intended teleport location with Rosenberg at the outskirts of Black mesa, where they then escape the facility in a company SUV

## Episodes

1. My Name is Gregory
2. He's a Killing Machine
3. TAKE COVER!!!
4. An Unexpected Twist
5. Ghost, The Villain
6. WHY HE LOOK LIKE DAT?

## Characters

* Gregory
* Felix

## Trivia

* Half-Life: Blue Shift is the nineteenth game to be played on the channel
* Half-Life: Blue Shift is the ninth game to be finished on the channel
* Half-Life: Blue Shift is the second game in the Half-Life franchise to be played on the channel
* The Hosts playing are Algernon and GhostinGhostout
* The bois are playing a modded version called Sven Co-op, which allows the first three Half-Life games (Half-Life, Half-Life: Blue Shift, and Half-Life: Opposing Force) to be played multiplayer
* It has been confirmed that the playthroughs of Half-Life; Blue Shift and Opposing Force take place in the "Adventures of Kracky and Astolfo" Universe.