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Too Short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have waited for thiis game for over a month. The graphics do come to my expectations. The sound is supurb. The HD pack makes the Half Life collection even better. The only problem with Blue Shift I feel is the lack of game play. For even some of the least experienced game players they could beat it withen a day.Due to its shortness. Since it includes OP For I gave it the rating of 4 stars otherwise it would have been 3.

Blue Shift....Orginally filler for the Dreamcast release..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

People, you must realize something. Blue Shift was originally intended to be nothing more than a FILLER EPISODE for the Dreamcast version of Half-Life. Thats all. When they recieved a substantial amount of feedback, they decided to release Blue-Shift on the PC. Since it originally was just filler, they had alot of work to do to make it equal to a retail expansion. In response to the comment that Valv should work harder next time..they worked pretty hard on this one, actually. They beefed it up from what it originally was.

The Low of HL

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The good: The game was just like predescessors Half-Life and Opposing Force - it combined all the greatness of the aliens and military, and made it extra creepy and stuffed with edge of your seat action, not to mention the extra very intruiging puzzles crammed in this game. Oh yeah, it's also got waaaaayyyyyy better graphics.

The Bad: Short short short short short - way too short. It took me 3 days to beat it on medium difficulty. And the end (where most Half-Life's come out and shine with a great plot ending) was a serious let down.

The Ugly: Maybe I hinted above, but the game really doesn't have THAT much of a plot. It's pretty much "find buddies" "help em get the hell outta here" while at the same time "blowin enemies up one side and down the other"

But it is still a good game, the perspective and story from the Security gaurd's perspective (or Soldier, for OpFor) is always a nice touch.

Buy for HD pack not for Game Play

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When you buy this make sure you are doing it to inhance and update the original or Opposing because this game is extremely short, and for a gamer like me it takes an easy 2 hours to beat. The HD pack is awesome, introducing new model weapons and texture inhancement. I enjoyed being barney but it was a short ride and now the game is in its spot on the CD stand collecting dust. Although after i put the HD pack on I found myself playing the original again, which also hasn't been played for several months maybe even a year. I guess what im saying is that it will respark interest in the original.

Get it for the HD Pack

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Blue Shift was way too short, and had no real variety of enemies. There were no bosses, no Black Ops, no difficult puzzles to solve, and a lackluster sound track. You might be wondering, why did I give it 3 stars then? Because the HD Pack is worth the money itself, by vastly improving on the models of the enemies and weapons in all official Half Life games. The HD Pack lets you go back and play the old HL games in a new light, it's worth it.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ok, number one, this game was not at all too short. garunteed, of all the people who said this, you must have been using cheats because the game itself took me at least 5-6 hrs to complete with no cheats at all. besides that, the game was amazing and just as challenging as Opossing force and half-life. for all of you half-life fans out there, I must say that this game is a must to get. Buy Half-life, then opossing force, and than blue-shift. I give this game a thumbs up.

Blue Shift - too short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this is an excellent return to the Halflife experience but it was too easy and too short. For the price I expected more. Same weapons , nothing new. You might try day of defeat for free and you would get more for your money. TWM

Great but short-lived

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This expansion lets you relive the Half-Life story from another perspective, that of security guard Calhoun. The gameplay that is there is really good and the levels are well designed, but there's just not enough. I finished this game after 2 nights of playing not more than 2-3 hours at a time. Overall a great add-on, but this should have at least had the length of OpFor, if not more.

Great Add-on! Too bad it's so SHORT!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a great add-on for one of my all time favorite games. The level design is just as you'd expect from Gearbox. Everthing is top notch. I had a lot of fun playing through this, all of about 1.5 hours! Blue Shift would have deserved a 5 star rating, with so little new material, it is just not worth it. If you don't already have the Opposing Force add-on (which is also included) this may be worth buying, and the high-res pack makes the characters and weapons look cool. For me though, having already purchased Opposing Force, this product is just not satisfying enough. Should've been 3 or 4 times longer. Definately a dissapoinment.

Good Idea That Ends Way Too Quickly

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Blue Shift is an expansion pack to the original Half-Life game in which you play a security guard who is forced to fight for his life once problems arise at the facility. The idea of playing a secondary character like a security guard is a great idea and for the most part this game does that well. Your character is not presented as some superhuman guard or anything, but just an 'everyday' guy with a few years education at a community college. The problem with this game is that it is over with way to quickly and so much more could have been done with it. I must also say that the ending is very lackluster and does not live up to the spirit and challange of the gameplay. Overall, I would say that if you enjoyed the original Half-Life and want to play it from a different viewpoint, give this game a try. However, if you're just getting into the Half-Life series then I recomend that you play Half-Life first.

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