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Blue Shift Rules!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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!

Blue Shift has shifted back to kindergarten.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Three huge flaws in this game, with the first being the most egregious:

1. Lousy graphics. All the moving figures, camou soldiers, scientists and monsters, when seen from afar are pixilated messes. This was never the problem with the original or OpFor. It is too bad Sierra/Valve/Whatever lost their primary graphics programmers, and instead had to fall back on those... who wrote The Gunman Chronicles graphics codes. Extremely primitive ... graphics, and something not necessary these days, completely unacceptable.

2. Barney doesn't look the same! Why did they change Barney's face? The original hound dog looking face was hilarious.

3. Game was too simplified and too short. There were no new alien weapons or aliens to battle. This was done hurriedly and on a shotstring budget.

The high definition pack included with the CD will actually damage your OpFor game because it changes the background music in many places to treacly elevator music, thus making the game quite anticlimactic in the areas where there should be mounting excitement.

Plain and Old, just stinks bad!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think sierra (the makers of blue shift, along with Valve) have some nerve selling junk like this. This has to be the worst game I ever bought. The 3D engine is old and played out, the graphics stink and are old. NO NEW WEAPONS, nothing is new, its just plain and old. A waste of money and time. But Max Payne it might cost more, but more fun, 3d Realms never lets us down. As for Blue Shift, if you do buy it and have any problems runnig it, dont bother calling tech support, they will just be nasty to you, like they were to me. and if you are offered a rebate offer on the box, good luck trying to get it, they dont honor it.

Short and not too Sweet...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am a Half-Life addict. I will admit that I did support the game tooth and claw whenever I heard a dissaproving grunt from my friends.

So why did I rate this game a measly two?!

It was short. Everyone was complaining about Op. 4's unsatisfying length, well then, now you've got something to complain about even more. This is more like an overnight game than a month game like the first (and in my opinion, best) Half-Life.

Sierra and Valve have been relying on the popularity of Half-Life to get them more cash out of expansion packs. The companies don't put as much time in their HL games anymore. Bl-Shift is just a few small levels put together in hopes of a fatter wallet.

The graphics were not spectacular either. If Valve wants a better game they need to spend a little more time on it. I was downright dissapointed.

Could be Better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I heard there was another addition to Half-Life being released, I knew I had to get it. The original Half-Life is by far the best first-person shooter game I have ever played. Blue Shift was a great new idea, but severly lacked development. The new high definition pack definitly brought new life to the first two episodes of half-life, but as a stand-alone game, it needed more attention to detail and to the length. The game is extreemly short and easy to beat. I give it 3 stars for the effort.

Good, But Short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game immensley for the whole 2 hours or so it took to beat it. It's about an 1/8 of the size of origional HL. The new high definition weapon and model pack that comes with it is great though. It makes the scientists, security guards, and aliens look much more realistic. And it replaces some of the old weapons for instance, the glock for a beretta, and mp-5 grenade + launcher to an m16 + grenade launcher. That little upgrade enhances the game so much that I would buy it just for that. But back to the game, it was fun, with good scrpted scenes and puzzles (i got stumped a few times on em But eventually worked them out.) As I said before, fun while it lasted.

One hell of a game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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

Not worth it unless you don't have OpFor

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for Blue-Shift, the abbreviation of which is, unfortunately, BS. This is surprisingly useful though, since this game essentially is BS. It seems like it might be cool, being a security guard, right? Being a mall security guard is probably more exciting than this game. it has some interesting sequences, but is is horribly short. Seriously. I took about 3 1/2 hours to beat it on "easy" THE FIRST TIME. No cheats/hints/strategy guide, either. I am not exagerating when I say it's too short. But it comes with OpFor, which PC Gamer put as 2nd runner up for Game of the year at some point. OpFor is much better than Blue Shift, so if you don't have Opfor, take a look. If you do have OpFor, look elsewhere.

blue shift

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is an expansion for half-life that could have more time put in it. There are many downsides to this expansion. One is the game time its about two hours if you can play it really quick and few points were you want to take the disc and break it. Plus the lack of multi-player action and then there is no boss just a squad of grunts you have to run through or kill. When you play half-life you know there is a big difference in the difficulty and you get to play in an alien world where in blue shift you just look at Xen for 2 to 5 seconds. Basically Gear-box and Valve could have put a few more months in to it.

a wonderful expansion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If your stuck with half life game of the year and you spend allot of time on the one player mode then buy this. It includes opposing force, a half life hd pack to upgrade all your half life games and ofcourse blueshift. The compeling episode is based on you playing as a police officer of black mesa. This is one of the best games there is so be sure to pick it up!

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