• As with Gearbox's previous expansion pack, Opposing Force (1999), Blue Shift returns to the setting and events of Half-Life, but portrays the story through the eyes of another character. (wikipedia.org)
  • Blue Shift does not elaborate on the storyline in Opposing Force, the preceding expansion pack, and no enemy characters or weapons introduced in it appear in the game. (wikipedia.org)
  • As in Opposing Force, Blue Shift shows the events of Half-Life from the perspective of a different protagonist. (wikipedia.org)
  • I had a copy of the Generation set , which included both the main game and the expansions Opposing Force and Blue Shift . (entertainium.co)
  • It was followed up by two official mission packs by third-party developers called »Opposing Force« and »Blue Shift«, the former of which is every bit as excellent and innovative as Half-Life itself. (emphy.de)
  • While I played Half-Life: Uplink on an old PC Gamer demo CD, my first "real" encounter with Valve's first masterpiece was in 2002. (entertainium.co)
  • this is the dark and gritty version of the borealis from half life 2 alpha 1999. (moddb.com)
  • Part I contains the 1998-1999 biennial report of the Regional Director. (who.int)
  • The overall gameplay of Blue Shift does not significantly differ from that of Half-Life: players are required to navigate through the game's levels, fight hostile non-player characters and solve a variety of puzzles to advance. (wikipedia.org)
  • The intense, real-time gameplay of Half-Life 2 is made possible only by Source®, Valve's new proprietary engine technology. (steampowered.com)
  • by 1998, the GOP candidate for governor won just 17% of California Hispanics' votes, and most voted last week to keep Newsom in office. (texasgopvote.com)
  • Back in the early 1990s, most Texan Hispanics voted for Democrats, but by 1998, Governor George W. Bush - who rejected anti-immigrant proposals like those supported by Republicans in California, instead echoing the pro-immigrant rhetoric and policies of his father, president George H.W. Bush and of President Reagan - won fully half of the Hispanic vote. (texasgopvote.com)
  • The story starts half a century ago, when California public workers won bargaining rights and quickly learned how to elect their own bosses-that is, sympathetic politicians who would grant them outsize pay and benefits in exchange for their support. (city-journal.org)
  • And once the Supreme Court of California sanctioned state and local workers' right to strike in 1985-something that their counterparts in most other states still lack-the unions quickly mastered confrontational techniques like the "rolling strike," in which groups of workers walk off jobs at unannounced times, and the "blue flu," in which public-safety workers call in sick en masse. (city-journal.org)
  • When the game was finally released under the name »Half-Life« in 1998, it was not the best title from a technical point of view (it had been overtaken by Epic Games' »Unreal« ca. half a year earlier), but it worked well enough. (emphy.de)
  • Implementation starts immedietly and will stretch for 2 and half decades and it is expected to involve a wide sector of people from different categories. (who.int)
  • For example, the nature of the resonance cascade accident is left unexplained, but it's heavily inferred that it is caused deliberately by the G-Man (the anonymous man in the blue suit seen throughout the game). (entertainium.co)
  • Half-Life: Sum takes place during and after the resonance cascade in which you play as the tough as nails HECU grunt Jane Doe as she has to wade through. (moddb.com)
  • Half-Life , the game which propelled developers Valve towards gaming superstardom, was first released on 19th November 1998. (entertainium.co)
  • When I got the Collector's Edition of Half-Life 2 for my birthday in 2005, it included with it a copy of Half-Life: Source , the version of Half-Life Valve released in 2004 which was built in their new engine and contained some different water effects but which was otherwise essentially identical. (entertainium.co)
  • A few years after Half-Life, Valve set out to release a sequel. (emphy.de)
  • When Valve released »Half-Life: Source« a few weeks after Half-Life 2, it was hoped to be a remake of Half-Life 1 with the new engine. (emphy.de)
  • After the mod release, Valve contacted the developers (who called themselves »The Crowbar Collective«) and convinced them to make the final version of Black Mesa a commercial title, with full access to the latest version of the Source engine, and thereby giving them their blessing to make Black Mesa a somewhat official part of the Half-Life franchise. (emphy.de)
  • In Half-Life, the player takes on the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist involved in an accident that opens an interdimensional portal to the borderworld of Xen, allowing the alien creatures of Xen to attack the facility. (wikipedia.org)
  • Half-Life introduced us to Gordon Freeman, the scientist, and scientists are rarely represented well in games as heroes. (squakenet.com)
  • hey this a new half life mod i am working on running on sprit of half life this mod aim to get the experents of playing half life as Scientist trying. (moddb.com)
  • This is a Half-Life mod aimed to recreate Hunt Down The Freeman in the GoldSrc engine with LD style. (moddb.com)
  • For Half-Life 2, the old Half-Life engine (retroactive called »GoldSrc«, after its directory name in the code repository) was modified some more, leaving only mere traces of the old Quake engine behind. (emphy.de)
  • Half-Life eventually spawned numerous mods like Zombie Panic, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, and Natural Selection, all free to play so long as you own the original game. (squakenet.com)
  • Half-Life: Blue Shift is an expansion pack for the first-person shooter video game Half-Life (1998). (wikipedia.org)
  • The game continues Half-Life's methods of an unbroken narrative. (wikipedia.org)
  • A selection of enemies from Half-Life populate the game, including alien creatures such as headcrabs and Vortigaunts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Yes, half-life game download! (squakenet.com)
  • One day some tests goes wrong and a gate to Xen planet opened: it means aliens from this world starts invading earth and it means the start of Half-Life game! (squakenet.com)
  • Good graphics with nice 3D, good game, great action from this first Half-Life episode. (squakenet.com)
  • Every single time a player loses a life and either starts their next one or continues the game, not only do all enemies on the screen get knocked down (a common procedure in these games), but they also lose a noticeable amount of life. (honestgamers.com)
  • I remember poring over PC Gamer 's original rapturous review of the game from 1998, and agreeing with every word. (entertainium.co)
  • Half-Life is a surprisingly tough game in many places, with the HECU commandos especially having really advanced AI for the era, capable of flanking the player and flushing you out with grenades. (entertainium.co)
  • the world eagerly waited for a new game in the »Half-Life« franchise, well knowing that there may never be such a thing. (emphy.de)
  • With its nice variety of locations, good controls and engaging combat, Half-Life was pretty much the perfect game for its time. (emphy.de)
  • 1998. HALF-LIFE sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. (steampowered.com)
  • But the scrapped DMV employee just wasn't turn out to be as interesting as originally hoped, dashing Faliszek's dreams of being able to appeal to real-life DMV workers that he "was the guy who put a nice DMV employee into our game. (unseen64.net)
  • In 2006 and 2007, they followed up with two short sequels called »Episode One« and »Episode Two», which were both significantly shorter than the original Half-Life 2. (emphy.de)
  • Some other sections were also significantly shortened, making the mod version of Black Mesa only roughly half as long as the original Half-Life. (emphy.de)
  • A year and a half later, a moment of shift silently came, uncalled. (sadhguru.org)
  • 1998 was an incredible year for games, and even better for being excited about forthcoming games. (rockpapershotgun.com)
  • This year Aldi, in particular, are targeting affluent shoppers and wine buffs with the launch of super-premium drinks range offering Grand Cru Champagne and Margaux-region Bordeaux wine at up to half the price of upmarket wine merchants. (womentalking.co.uk)
  • Maternal residence at delivery and hospitalization locations were identified during the first year of life. (cdc.gov)
  • We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of mankind, half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. (earthisland.org)
  • By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around them, from the physical environment to the behaviors even the emotions of both friends and enemies. (steampowered.com)
  • Blue Shift also includes a substantial section dedicated to keeping a major character in the story safe from enemy characters, and escorting him to a specific location. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite the sequel going in a radically different direction with the plot than one might have imagined, I actually really enjoy the relative simplicity of Half-Life's story, which provides little extra snippets should you look closely. (entertainium.co)
  • This mod gives you a very scary, thrilling, and entertaining experience it's also not related with half-life story. (moddb.com)
  • The story of California's political evolution - to become a state where a pro-life law like Texas' is practically unimaginable, even were Roe v. Wade someday to be overturned - is a cautionary tale that arguably has its roots in the mid-1990s, when Republican governor Pete Wilson advanced a harsh anti-immigrant proposition that would have kept immigrant kids without legal status out of public schools. (texasgopvote.com)
  • First, Dorris, who is of Modoc descent, tells a realistic story of life as it is lived by Native Americans on a Western reservation. (enotes.com)
  • ABC also had a burgeoning hit in the form of The Practice , but NYPD Blue remained its star drama. (therealgentlemenofleisure.com)
  • Yet experts say there's a gap between companies' stated policies and their willingness to embrace flexibility in practice, particularly for individuals in blue-collar occupations-jobs that often involve manual labor and tend to pay by the hour. (insulation.org)
  • The player is instead given access to a limited selection of Half-Life's original weaponry. (wikipedia.org)
  • HL:Enriched is a HL mod that strives to polish and improve the Half-Life experience within the original engine limits. (moddb.com)
  • I forgive myself a little more easily when discovering just how much I've forgotten about the original Half-Life, what with the additional decade. (rockpapershotgun.com)
  • Blue Shift is set in the same location and time frame as that of Half-Life, taking place at a remote New Mexico laboratory called the Black Mesa Research Facility. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conservative commentator William F. Buckley warned at the time that Wilson's proposal represented a "strain of xenophobia" that could "evolve into anti-GOP resentments by the majority of Californians" and lead to "electoral catastrophes" for the party that champions the pro-life position. (texasgopvote.com)
  • The composer, as well as Mrs. Miller at the premiere of this music, is in the 'September' time of life. (composers.com)
  • After discussing a few practical concerns, Sadhguru asked me to come to Isha full time by December 1998. (sadhguru.org)
  • In 1998, this meant that the cast members had to carry beepers so that they could be contacted at whatever time Milch was ready to tell them what their scene was supposed to be. (therealgentlemenofleisure.com)
  • Cable had yet to truly compete with networks in the prestige drama department, so on television, drama at this time meant ER, Law & Order, The X-Files , and NYPD Blue . (therealgentlemenofleisure.com)
  • The rumor at the time was that this was co-creator Steven Bochco's call -- Bochco allegedly believed that hiring a former child actor would bring more attention to series, with the audience tuning in for the novelty of the former Silver Spoons star living in the very adult world of NYPD Blue . (therealgentlemenofleisure.com)
  • So, with support of the company's President, she introduced a paid-time-off policy that allows employees to take accrued leave in half-hour increments. (insulation.org)
  • The amazing thing about Dorris' portrayal of life on the reservation is the way that the traditions and rituals of Indian culture are so completely, almost seamlessly, integrated with the standard American culture of the time. (enotes.com)
  • The Seattle Times later described his method: "Bickford creates the illusion of life by moving or reshaping the clay figures in tiny increments and recording it a frame at a time on movie film" (Boss). (historylink.org)
  • we have spent 2 years undeveloping half-life by 5 months to present you the real e3 1998 experience. (moddb.com)
  • But, tragically, some Texas Republicans are at risk of imperiling that advantage - shifting Texas blue and reversing pro-life victories - by shifting to an anti-immigrant stance in recent years that resembles California's actions in the mid-1990s. (texasgopvote.com)
  • Back in 2015, when Half-Life 2 had just turned a mere 10 years old, I went back to replay it and found myself enormously surprised by how much I'd forgotten. (rockpapershotgun.com)
  • Told through a playful combination of phone calls, voicemails, and live radio spots, Stanton's quirky show illustrates life with a thousand friends on Facebook, but no one to talk to on a Saturday night. (t2conline.com)
  • That partisan shift occurred even while most Hispanic Catholic and evangelical voters maintain their view that abortion should be illegal in most or all cases - likely because many felt personally targeted by anti-immigrant policies that targeted these mostly-U.S.-born voters' undocumented parents and grandparents. (texasgopvote.com)
  • Half-Life at 20 is, with some caveats laid out below, still a stunning videogame, and I'm very surprised to find myself arguing, holds up better in 2018 than Half-Life 2. (rockpapershotgun.com)
  • The major challenges are to apply an effective health system reform, find alternative ways of funding, reduce the burden of diseases, promote healthy life styles, develop and retain human resources and introduce advanced technology while assuring equity, quality and accessibility. (who.int)
  • I was acutely nervous in the hours before our encounter, for Barry's influence on my life over the preceding two decades had been that of a north star: distant, blazing, and guiding. (orionmagazine.org)
  • Half-Life was a landmark title in the evolution of first-person shooters. (squakenet.com)
  • State workers routinely retire at 55 with pensions higher than their base pay for most of their working life. (city-journal.org)
  • According to FWI President Ellen Galinsky, blue-collar workers are much less likely to have such flexibility-"which is sad," she says, "because [they] need it most. (insulation.org)
  • Indeed, HR professionals can lead their companies in rethinking long-held assumptions about the scheduling of blue-collar workers. (insulation.org)
  • Likewise, the experiments that Black Mesa were doing on the alien life of Xen clearly shows that they were aware of the border world for much longer than Freeman was privy to, having made previous journeys there using the portal technology discovered in the Lambda complex. (entertainium.co)
  • Brower's life-long love of wilderness began with childhood family vacations to the Sierra Nevada, and as a young man, when he earned a reputation as a world-class mountaineer. (earthisland.org)
  • For you see, Farmer s puzzle is three-dimensional and exists on many levels, which, like his Lavalite World, is constantly shifting. (pjfarmer.com)
  • Art has a key role in understanding the reality that shapes our daily life, and artists are responsible for amplifying our awareness by creating artworks that alter the role of the public and allow us to think about our position in the contemporary world. (teks.no)
  • Blue Shift begins similarly to Half-Life, as Barney Calhoun rides a train through the Black Mesa research facility to reach his place of work. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since I'm a die-hard Half-Life fan, you bet I downloaded and played the finished version of Black Mesa on the very day it came out. (emphy.de)
  • Slimy Situation is a mappack created for and is the first place winner of the 'TWHL - Whole Goop Life' competition. (moddb.com)
  • In the blustery evening, after a poorly microwaved pie-there was a chilly nugget in its doughy heart-he had stumped to the public phone, the half bottle of Grouse in his jacket pocket banging against his hip, and called Betty. (theparisreview.org)
  • Brower was also one of the first activists to use full-page advertisements in prominent newspapers as a way of shifting public opinion and building grassroot support. (earthisland.org)
  • we know that the largest prize for BIM lies in the operational stages of the project life-cycle", until recently there has not been hard data to support this conjecture. (blogs.com)
  • The first 3 stages of the mosquito life cycle (egg, which these conditions affect the population dynamics of larvae, and pupae) are aquatic. (cdc.gov)
  • Sobon also rolled out an option for employees to work a compressed, 4-day schedule in the summer and take part in staggered work shifts starting between 6:30 and 9:00 a.m., depending on the requirements of the job. (insulation.org)
  • The company offers many benefits geared toward work/life balance, most notably its Babies at Work program, which allows new parents to bring their infants onsite. (insulation.org)
  • women represent half or more enrollments and they are not willing to work the crazy hours. (rollyson.net)
  • And the Texas GOP's relatively high share of the Hispanic vote has made possible the legislative makeup to pass pro-life victories like the new heartbeat bill. (texasgopvote.com)
  • The fragile makeup of ctenophora makes research into their way of life extremely difficult. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The lower symmetry is shifted round from the higher by ninety degrees, forming a disymmetry or a biradial form. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • For that reason, I've always felt those add-ons to be integral parts of the whole Half-Life experience. (entertainium.co)
  • By choosing Indian life as his subject and his setting, Dorris broadens the scope of contemporary fiction, which has not often dealt with this area of the American experience. (enotes.com)
  • During the Dhyana Yatra , on Sadhguru's birthday, September 3rd, 1998, I mustered the courage to give him a small gift, together with a small bit of poetry. (sadhguru.org)
  • Though the impact of education is sweeping, our model looks at just one narrow aspect of it: a shift in the age at which women give birth to their first child. (populationconnection.org)
  • But if the rate of population growth slows down, there will be more resources to invest in each African's health, education, and opportunity-in other words, in a good life. (populationconnection.org)
  • Fortunately, empowering couples to make decisions about their lives also improves Africa's future by changing the population growth scenario across the continent. (populationconnection.org)
  • The blue line represents its population to 2100 if every woman had only the number of children she wanted. (populationconnection.org)
  • Here I was looking at proper real-life places, mundanity filled with excitement, and it seemed so impossibly exciting. (rockpapershotgun.com)
  • If the formal design were analyzed, one would discover dramatic musical events occurring at points one-third, one half, and two-thirds of the way through each movement. (composers.com)
  • Neither Half Life 2: Episode Three nor Half-Life 3 materialized, and many people think they never will. (emphy.de)
  • They do get care, but the cost is shifted. (rollyson.net)
  • Almost half of the studies focused on caregivers who provided care for survivors from diagnosis through the end of active treatment. (cdc.gov)
  • This music shifts between modal and polytonal figures. (composers.com)
  • More than half a century ago, Heukelekian and Heller [6] showed that at low nutrient concentrations substrate plays an important role in bacterial multiplication. (who.int)
  • The narrator has purposely chosen to wander and enjoy isolation but now wants the sunshine back in their life. (musicindustryhowto.com)
  • Set immediately at ease, I leaned forward, and for the next half hour or so we passed the atlas back and forth, finger-tracing paths of journeys taken, places known, recalling encounters with wise people, wild creatures, and fierce weather. (orionmagazine.org)
  • Rayona, on the other hand, has spent her entire life in cities in Washington State. (enotes.com)
  • From the effort to exist in both of these worlds springs an enormous conflict within Christine, and she spends her entire life trying to resolve it. (enotes.com)