Overview
My first HL1 guide! A review on this mod…
Introduction to the mod
Shift Two is a mod for HL1 where you play the role of Otis. Otis? You know that fat security guard with the Desert Eagle who cracks those weird (yet funny) jokes. Thats who I’m talking about. You play as him at the time of the resonnance cascade and you must escape the Black Mesa Facility.
Story and lore. (spoilers)
So, this mod was obviously an attempt by someone to make another half life dlc. The problem is that its in spanish so you do not know what people are saying unless you speak spannish. I… cannot. You can find out what is going on by playing. Okay… anyway… the story starts with Otis comming to work and he puts on his vest and grabs his glock (or m9 in gearbox HD pack). He goes to an elevator which falls when the Black Mesa Incident begins. WHOA… HELLO!!! Its a Blue Shift repeat so far, but shortened to a few seconds… THIS IS A BIG MISTAKE THE DEV MADE. Anyways you later wake up and navigate your way through black mesa for a few seconds and later come across a scientist who brings you to a tram to escape Black Mesa, but you are interupted by a xen relay which tps you out… Well… thats anti-climatic… Then you are teleported to the room in which Opposing force starts and where Shepard finds Otis. Shepard comes up to you and asks you
to open the door (like in Opposing force). Then you go through a secret door under the stair case in which Shepard came down into the room on. You go inside and see a portal room. In the portal room you see Gina Cross (thats who I think it is.) hop into a portal. You activate the same portal and jump in and the game ends…
My Reflection: Okay… WHAT… the game is really short. At least make it longer. I wanted to see more story and refrences. Why on Earth did they copy the beginning of Blue Shift… Thats just horrible… Okay the Opposing Force part was good… I’ll give it that, but there is- WARNING: EXTREME RANT IS COMMING!!! NO OVERALL STORY IN THIS OTHER THAN OTIS WAKING UP IN THE RESSONACE CASCADE AND ESCAPING BLACK MESA… NO BIG ALIEN BOSS THING TO STOP LIKE GORDON FREEMAN AND ADRIAN SHEPARD DID… ITS A FREAKING REPEAT OF BLUE SHIFT!!! WHY!? YOUR COPYING BLUE SHIFT… “Those who do not know history are destined to repeat it.” Thats what this person did. Do a side by side comparison of Blue Shift and Shift Two and you will see the story line is simmilar. THERE ARE ONLY MINOR DIFFERENCES… OTHERWISE YOUR PLAYING BLUE SHIFT ALL OVER AGAIN…egtilajkarsehk EXCEPT SHORTER… WHATS THE POINT IN MAKING THIS IF YOU ARE JUST GONNA COPY GEARBOX’s WORK OF ART, BUT MAKE IT CRAPY LOOKING AND SHORTER!? IT… MAKES… NO… SENSE…
Okay… No hate going on here… I still believe they could do something better than this. With the lack of diversity or new additions like characters or weapons or places… This would not make it one second as Half Life DLC. This means that the mod deserves more attention and should get a better story line and should get new additions of the things I previously listed in this paragraph in it… Otherwise its a remake of Blue Shift with new salad dressing…
The Lore is a 3/10. Which means border line… Common you can do better than that on the Story Line…
Gameplay and Level Design.
The gameplay is extremely laggy, loading screens glitch you in walls, and the lighting is horrid… The overall maps look ugly…
Rating
Overall the rating of this mod is a 3/10. Its okay, but with the bad level design and story it gives it a bad rating… A 3 would mean borderline in my case btw. This mod is a great idea. It just needs more work, AND AN ENGLISH VERSION…
Overall this could be a good mod if it got more attention. I felt like the creator was in a rush to get it done which is why its not very polished.