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Summary: Another Classic! HL : Blue Shift comes to town!
Review: HALF-LIFE: BLUE SHIFTAs security in this top-secret government facility, you must scramble to keep the scientists and yourself alive, as you extinguish the many hostiles attempting to take you out. It's going to be quite a day... Besides getting Blue Shift you also get HL: Opposing Force, and the Half-life High Definition Pack!! The HDP Upgrades all your HL games to now a day graphics! all your Character models,Enemy Models get updated to better and realer looking ones and your firepower also gets updated! Like the old MP5 weapon with Grenade Launcher is now a Assault Rifle with Grenade Launcher! also you Get Opposing Force Capture the Flag and you get the same AWESOME Online Multi-Play you got in the other games... Over all this is one to get! And if you want to see it in action get the Official HL: Blue Shift Trailer at the Sierra Studios its a 17MB Download but well worth the wait for 56k modem users! as for DSL or Cable modem users... YOUR LUCKY! :-)
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Summary: Good for Half-Life Fanatics.
Review: This game seems to me more like a downloadable MOD (modification) of Half-Life (One of the greatest PC games ever to be created). I would love this game if it wasn't retail, but I'm glad it's only Ten Bucks. If you played and loved Half-Life along with its expansion Opposing Force, then you'll be happy about how this adds on to the story of what happened that day in Black Mesa (The Govermental Base that the game takes place in), in Barney's (The fat police officer) point of view. The problem with this game is that it's too short, takes a few hours of regular playing to beat. This game will include some entertaining cut scenes that you experienced in the original Half-Life (again from Barney's point of view). This game has a very tense and exciting ending and will satisfy any Half-Life fan. I suggest getting this game with the Half-Life Plantinum Pack, because then you can pay 40 bucks for all of the amazing Half-Lives (including the INCREDIBLY addictive, Massive Online Game, Counter-Strike).
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Summary: One hell of a game
Review: I bought this game a few days ago along with the opposing force expansion and HD pack. Great graphics, superb gameplay and nice sound all go into one and 'WALLAH' blue shift, a short but tremendously fun half-life expansion. Opposing Force on the other hand lacks in its chills and gets a bit tired and repetitive after a while. The HD pack has some nice extras that make a tremendously great game an even better one. Thanx
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Summary: I'm disapionted with this expansion.
Review: I was really, really exicted about blue-shift when I heard in January, 2001 that it was coming out, I always wondered what it would be like to fight as a security guard.... I'm dispionted I
wasted my time and money for a game that wasn't nearly as good
as I was hoping it to be. I mean I like blue-shift and all, but
I think sierra,gearbox, and valve rushed and did a lousy job
on blue-shift. I ran blue-shift after installing the high definition content which came with the game itself, and I was impressed with the more smoother impressive graphical changes withen the characters and weapons in half-life-blue-shift. I ran blue-shift on my 350mhz intel pentium 2mmx, with the Nvdia tnt,
along with 128 megabytes of sdram, It ran great! yet....you see gordon freeman a few times, experience the diasters at the facility, save scientists, fight aliens, and go eventually to there world, fight marines, go to work, what's new. OH and
the worst part of all is:NO MULTIPLAYER! HOW CAN ANY HAlF-LIFE GAME DO THAT!Blue-shift is dying for multiplayer! besides the point, I felt sorry for the game so I gave it 3 stars, just to be nice!
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Summary: Awesome expansion pack - you know you want it
Review: Okay, so the original Half Life is almost 3 years old now, but you still love it don't you? You play the mods on the Internet. The awesome storyline, the interactive scenery, the scientists that babble to each other and get sucked into ventilation shafts. Great wasn't it? The best thing about this expansion pack is that it upgrades the original game and Opposing Force graphically - better weapons, and more detailed aliens. And you know what that means? You're going to have to play the first 2 games again before starting on this one! It's worth it! In Blue Shift, you play the security guard which you meet as Gordon Freeman in the first game right at the start. Originally supposed to be a bonus game on the Dreamcast, the developers have made it into a full game. This should be it for expansion packs, Valve should take this away for a bit and come back with Half Life 2 based on the Doom 3 engine for example, this is probably the last mission pack they can squeeze out of this narrative. Essential.
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Summary: Money Trap by Gearbox
Review: This game Blue-Shift is just as fun as Half-Life and Opposing Force. It only takes a total of 2 hours to beat the ENTIRE game though. I was playing along and all of a sudden it ended and then the credits came up and it said Status: etc etc etc and all that stuff they usually do at the end like in Half-Life. It was so short that it made me gag when it ended. I was lucky though and I borrowed it from a friend so I didn't have to waste my money on 2 hours of gameplay. It has no multiplayer either so once you beat it, the game is essentially worthless. You get a really small amount of weapons too, the glock, crowbar, shotgun, MP-5, grenades, rocket launcher, and remote mines. THAT'S IT! That's all you get. Nothing new. No new aliens. No bosses to beat. Nothing. I was very disappointed. They knew they could scam people since so many people have played Half-Life and Opposing Force so they just threw a game together real quick to grab everyones money. Don't let them get your money. Borrow it from someone else if you want to play it. It's really not that great. Being a security gaurd is boring, especially for only 2 hours. I probably only killed about a total of 18 soldeirs the entire game. Not worth your money. It's too bad, too bad. I hope this has helped you. If you haven't played Half-Life or Opposing Force, you need to because they are probably 2 of the best games this decade. Good gaming.
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Summary: Blue Shift Rules!
Review: Despite what people say, this game is a great value. Opposing Force comes with for free, the HD pack makes everything look better, and the Blue Shift campaign is short and sweet. Buy this game and Half-life and get the best games ever made!
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Summary: Fun, but too short and thus it's overpriced.
Review: First off: only buy Blue Shift now if you don't own Half-Life: Opposing Force. Now, Blue Shift is, of course, Half-Life, so many of us die-hard fans will want to (and should) own it. Unfortunately, the price tag on this just isn't worth it. The game can be beat in just 2-4 hours, making this one of the shortest expansion packs in the history of gaming. Yes, they did add in Opposing Force, but that's just because they realized that the title game was just too short, and it's not worth it if you already own OpFor, as most of us Half-Life fans do. There's a High Definition pack added, which "upgrades" the looks of the weapons, enemies and friendly characters, but how it looks isn't that important. The original game still looks good, so this wasn't needed. If anything, it just makes the sinister "G-Man" character look less intimidating. As it stands, the game isn't quite worth a [price]price tag; wait until they drop it to a more sensible ... price and buy it then.
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Summary: Great Chapter in the Half-Life Saga!
Review: You played the hero. You played the villain. Now, you play the Barney. Okay, it may not be as long or intense as the original Half-Life, but you have to give "Blue Shifts" marks in many other areas. The new graphic and weapon designs are amazing, greatly improving the playing experience. The price is worth it simply for the updated graphics, since going back through Half-Life and Opposing Force with the new graphics is like playing a completely different game. For those of you who hated the Xen levels in Half-Life, you'll be happy to know that only one level in Blue Shift sports you on the alien world. In my opinion, the Xen level in Blue Shift is the best in the entire series, so even you avid Xen haters might find yourselves gaping at one or two turns along the road. I also approve of how the programmers added a different character from the other scientists and barneys you meet along the journey in the character of Dr. Rosenberg. If anything was missing from the original Half-Life it would have been a main character other than Freeman and the G-man. Blue Shift fills this void excellently. You really feel like you have scientists around you who can actually help instead of hinder your progress, something you never felt in either Op Force or Half-Life. Of course, in Blue Shift you get to explore all new areas of the incredibly huge Black Mesa Research Facility. Perhaps the most interesting locales you see are during your tram ride into work: a dry cleaners with a Barney and scientist playing a street fighter like game; a futuristic food court with pizza and ham burger restaurants; a really cool looking science lab with glass floors and computers galore, among many other things. At the end you also get to see one of the very first teleportation machines the scientists at Black Mesa invented. Remember the machine Gordon Freeman used in Half-Life? It's similar, only older looking and a bit smaller. Now, as you might imagine, there are some set backs to the game. My number one gripe was the length. If you thought Op Force was short, it'll seem three times as long after playing Blue Shift. In spite of the shortness, however, the game has no boring or repetitive levels which means the replay value is quite high. Another grip is Gordon Freeman. You only get to see him for a quick second at the beginning and end of the game! It would have been a smart move on Vavle's part to add Gordon a little more to your plight. In spite of the setbacks, though, the positives vastly outweigh the negatives. It was very fun coming back to the Half-Life universe again, playing a timid security guard who is caught in right in the middle of the "incident" at Black Mesa. I look forward to Half Life 2, whatever that might bring!
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Summary: Maybe a little short but....
Review: I bought this game a few days ago along with the opposing force expansion and HD pack. All i have to say is ITS HELL GOOD AND BETTER THEN OPPOSING FORCE IF YOU DONT SELECT THE EASY SETTING AND PLAY IT FOR 3-4 HOURS THINKING YOUR A CHAMPION COS YOU PASSED A SHORT GAME ON A HELL EASY SETTING. :) Thanku for ur time
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