User:Snewerl/Azure Sheep



Azure Sheep is a mod for the first-person shooter computer game Half-Life. It is considered to be an alternative to Blue Shift, an official Half-Life expansion pack. The storyline is about Barney Calhoun, a security guard who has to rescue his colleague Kate who is nicknamed Azure Sheep. They have to find a way to escape the Black Mesa Research Facility, which is the main setting of Half-Life.

The mod features some new weapons such as a poolstick, ironbar, and new types of pistols and machine guns. The new enemies are Special Forces soldiers, Magenta Vortigaunts and an underwater monster called the Archer. There are many new characters such as Barniel and Gus. The main protagonists from the original Half-Life and Opposing Force, Gordon Freeman and Adrian Shephard also makes appearances.

Story
(From the documentation; translated into English with slight hiccups)

Barney is a security guard, well Barney at the moment is just Barney, or, well, Just Barney, because with all the recent mess at Black Mesa he can't remember his whole name...

Just Barney didn't want to be a security guard but, you know life, he was lead to be one; he had a secret dream, he was writing a novel and...but well this is another story.

Barney has another dream: to become a hero and rescue a princess, nothing more.

Now, when the big mess occurred, he was in the first security post of Black Mesa and a colleague of him, Kate, (codename Azure Sheep) seems to be trapped in. Barney will go and try to rescue her, what an occasion...

Features
Azure Sheep is a single player mod for Half-Life. The player is one of the Security guards ("Barney") that is on post in one of the entrances of the Black Mesa Research Facility. When the chaos starts Kate, your colleague, code name Azure Sheep is in the facility and in danger, so you set off to rescue her...

Azure Sheep features:
 * 51 maps, all made by Davide 'DAV' Cintrão
 * A new training course: see the home of Barneys
 * Alternative NPCs In Black Mesa
 * Debatable storyline
 * "Buddy" gameplay: you have to rescue and work with your girlfriend Kate, much like you do with Sargeant Barney in Heart of Evil.
 * Be back in the old Black Mesa areas and play them from a different point of view
 * See a lot of new areas you have never seen
 * Meet Gordon Freeman and Adrian Shephard and interact with them
 * New Weapons and one Healing-tool
 * New Enemies
 * New Allies with brand new voices
 * New models, new animations for the old ones.
 * New Sounds
 * New Graphics

Status
Released. Go to the Official Azure Sheep site for download links.

Team
Azure Sheep was made by a team consisting of designers & modellers from Portugal and Italy. The voice actress Guzel Allaire (USA) stars as "Kate". This team has also made a second Half-Life mod called Point of View where the player can play as an Alien Slave/Vortigaunt and also features the new characters from Azure Sheep.