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Corporal Adrian Shephard is the '', the first Expansion Pack , by Gearbox Software , for the First-person Shooter Computer Game '' Half-Life ''. CHARACTER Shephard, a 22-year old Marine Corporal assigned to the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit (HECU) from the fictional Santego Military Base in Arizona , is one of the men sent in the Black Mesa Research Facility to kill the aliens and later silence the witnesses, especially a scientist named Gordon Freeman , the player character in the original game. But everything goes wrong as Adrian finds himself separated from his unit and tries to fight for his life. During Boot Camp training, Shephard is apparently trained as a Sharpshooter , as he only receives advanced training on the use of the Desert Eagle and the M40A1 Sniper Rifle . The Osprey aircraft that he rides in the beginning of the game suggest this as well; none of the other soldiers carry a sniper rifle. Unlike the other soldiers, he works with the increasingly distrustful scientists and guards in order to make it out of Black Mesa alive. Shephard and Freeman do cross paths during the game, but at that point Shephard is merely an observer to a climactic event from the original game. He never fights alongside or against Gordon Freeman. The G-Man character appears to take an interest in Shephard's movements, as early as one week prior to the corporal's involvement in the Black Mesa incident; he is seen during the Boot Camp training mission. Shephard deactivates the Thermonuclear warhead brought in by the Black Ops, but the G-Man reactivates it and Black Mesa is destroyed. In the end, the G-Man reveals that he has successfully argued for Shephard's life, detaining him in some unknown void. The G-Man expresses a degree of respect for Shephard's abilities, even praising him for having abilities to "adapt and survive against all odds" which reminds the G-Man of himself. He appears to have taken an interest in Shephard before the Black Mesa Incident, although Shephard has not been seen in ''Half-Life 2''. It should be noted that while Shephard witnesses Gordon Freeman's transportation to Xen, he has the option to follow him through the teleporter before it collapses. However, upon doing so Shephard will find himself teleported to a location in Xen several meters away from Gordon, before falling through space. Doing so will produce the message: "Evaluation terminated: Subject attempted to create a temporal paradox." TRIVIA In the computer game '' F.E.A.R. '', which is influenced by '' Half-Life '', a character is named "Shepherd, A." This is possibly an homage to Adrian Shephard. SEE ALSO |
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