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Summary: Good idea, but way to short.
Review: When a game sells 2.5 million copies and is still going strong nearly three years after its initial release, one would think that a sequel would have already found its way to the shelves. However, when the game in question is Half Life, arguably the best selling and best reviewed game in modern computer history, the rules that apply to other titles simply do not apply here. With a endless supply of fan made levels, modifications, dominating hard the world over, and with a mod, Counter Strike, being the most popular online game, one would wonder if Valve is in no rush to release a follow up to the game. The Highly anticipated Team Fortress 2 is over a year and a half past its anticipated release, and has yet to make it onto the release radar for the near future. Half Life 2 is a top secret project that has a tighter lid of security around it than the next Star Wars film and the Colonels secret recipe. So what is a Half Life fan to do with nothing on the horizon save for a few fan mods? Well, the folks at Gearbox have created a follow up to their smash success Half Life Opposing Force and retuned to the Black Mesa Facility with Half Life Blue Shift. The original Half Life cats players in the role of scientist Gordon Freeman as he attempted to escape from the Black Mesa facility following a accident that saw the facility flooded with all manner of deadly creatures, as well as ruthless government troops sent to silence anyone who saw to much. Opposing Force expanded the role by casting players as CPl Sheppard, and Special Forces soldier dispatched to Black Mesa to restore order. In Blue Shift, players get to take on the role of security guard Barney Calhoun. The events in the game take place at the same time as the other two games, as Barney attempts to get out of the Black Mesa facility. Along the way, players will battle monsters, soldiers, solve puzzles, and help stranded scientists along the way. While the game was fun, it was far to short. I was able to complete the entire game in under five hours, and found myself wanting more after I was done. The game does not offer any new weapons and while the graphics engine is updated, and updates the graphics on Half Life and Opposing Force, there really is little here to make it stand out from a fan made mod. There are no new weapons, monsters, or settings in the game, and I was surprised to discover that the game did not feature a boss monster anywhere along the way as the previous games in the series did. A further piece of concern, and yes it is nitpicking, is that the character you play in Blue Shift often interacted with Freeman and Sheppard in the previous games, but Freeman is seen only briefly, and has no real impact on the game. That being said, it is important to know that Blue Shift was originally designed to be a console only game, and it was decided to offer the game for PC users as a bridge to the upcoming Half Life 2. Blue Shift also comes with the full version of Opposing Force, a utility to update the graphic resolution of Half Life and Opposing Force, as well as a rebate for those players who have previously purchased Opposing Forces. The game also does not require any previous version of Half Life to play, though understanding the Half Life Story will greatly fill in the games storyline. In summary, Blue Shift is a nice return to a classic game scenario but is far to short and fails when compared to the previous titles in the series. 7 out of 10 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS P233, 32Mb RAM 300Mb HDD RECOMMENDED SYSTEM PII-300, 64Mb RAM 3D accelerator
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Summary: I Played Blue Shift Before Anyone
Review: It's better then the original half-life. Way better.
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Summary: Blue Shift
Review: If it's even 1/2 as good as Halflife & Counter Strike. Can't Wait.
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Summary: Valve is dead!!!
Review: True! Bluse Shift is exactly what its name says, Bs. Valve knows how to squeeze milk out of a dead cow, but you can't blame them, for they are Bill Gates' students. This game is absolutly lame. Nothing new, all recycled stuff. High definition pack will update 3 years old graphics into 2 year old graphics.
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Summary: Blue Shift kicks!
Review: This amazingly cool game was originally on te Dreamcast. It's fast paced action spawned a PC port. this game is another legendary addon for Half-life. It is truly a work of art. Thanks Gearbox!
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Summary: Half Life Blue Shift Is Comeing!!!!!!!
Review: This game places you in the shoes of a Black Mesa security guard Barney Calhoun, during the same time period as the original Half-Life. The biggest changes from Half-Life in Blue Shift are the remodeled weapons and 3D character models. The character models have been reskinned with larger textures, and some of the weapons have been altogether replaced with new ones. Additionally, all the weapon sounds have been redone as well. The shotgun cocking sound, for instance, is now much more pronounced than it was in Half-Life. These upgrades are all part of the High Def Pack, a retroactive feature of Blue Shift that will search your computer for Half-Life and update all the weapon and character models!!!!! Blue Shift Here We come!!!!! ...
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Summary: it should be good
Review: if this game is as good as the other two it should be awesome. this game puts you as Barney Jones. a security gaurd for the black mesa facility. it's your mission to help you and other scientists get out of there. with a new high definition game play and 32-multiplayer this might be a game of the year.
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Summary: a good game
Review: This game is class.you never actually get bored of playing IT. THERE IS LOADS OF WEAPONS TO CHOOSE FROM AND PLENTY OF GAME PLAY.
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Summary: Something new from Valve?
Review: I have played both Half-life Opposing Force and the original Half-life twice. I have to say they are my favorite games. I hope that Blue Shift Will be as good as those. Although They are my favorite games i am disapointet a bit. Both of them were pretty much the same. They both had the same ending and middle. I hope the the ending and middle will be different, but I doubt it. -Andrei
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Summary: Barney Blueshift, rules or sucks?
Review: HL blueshifts makes your HL collection last a few more years longer till the release of Half-Life 2: Wrath of the Yindor. it places you in the role of the world's most loved sidekick: Barney Jones, as a security guard in the black mesa research facility it's up to you and your scientist buddies to survive, including an improved engine and the High Definition pack which replaces the models / skins of some of the best HL addon packs (like Gunman chronicles, Opposing force and of course HL itself) As i said before the release of this addon and the HD will make the HL generation last a little longer, more official addons are coming like the mysterious: Project 4th force (also known as Separation: Soul Survivor) an addon that will put you deeper into the storyline of HL with extensive cinematic scenes and revealing the truth. Half-Life 2: Wrath of the Yindor, will also go deeper into the Separation storyline, but not as Gordon, Walter, Adrian or Barney this time but as a yet unknown scientist working at the last surviving colony on earth 35 years after the disaster, almost every human being has been killed or converted to the Xen Race and the last survivors escaped to a secret Antarctic Research Facility known as IceWolf, thinking that the fragile Xen lifeforms would freeze in the cold, you, a 30 year old scientist, were wrong, the first adapted lifeforms start to appear near IceWolf and are starting to enter the base perimeter, after a while the power cables have been chewed through by the adapted Xenomes and now they are entering the cold facility... after you and the rest of the survivors. With a XenoFormed home-planet and your last hope destroyed you and your colleagues start the portal once more...
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