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Good but Half-Life is better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When i bought Blue Shift i was really happy. I installed and began to play. The game was really good except for the fact that it's 1/4 the length of half life and you hardly get any contact with other people besides the army. I would recomend that you buy this game but if you don't own the original Half life buy that first.

GET OVER HALF LIFE

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is almost exactly like the original half life, but ten hours shorter. The game starts out in a tram(sound familiar) and then all hell breaks loose down at black mesa for an unkown cause. Im sorry, but I do not think that the original half life is even that good, so when this expansion pack came out i was not that excited for it. Though I wasn't that enthusiastic I picked it up, and once i started playing I officially lost my taste for all half life games. Even a novice gamer could finish this game in a matter of 4-6 hours of casual playing. No complex puzzles, terrible sound, terrible graphics even with the new high definition pack, and way to much of the slide effect when walking. Overall this game is short and leaves gamers unfulfilled, though it does contain opposing force, i still feel the 30 dollar price tag is way to much for a game with uncountable faults.

wheres the rest of the game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ok, the game was good and gave you more info on what happened at Black Mesa , but wheres the rest of the game . The first two were long and had differen't bosses and stuff . This seemed to be thrown together pretty fast .They should take more time next time and make a longer game . But it was still fun!!

Half-Life BlueShift, Is it worth the price?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Half-Life BlueShift... Great game, but it is to short. I thought this game was suspensful, full of action, and it has this great weapons pack. The first day I got BlueShift, I got through about 3/4 of the game after about 3 hours of playing. I was thinking how great this expansion pack was when I then realized that I had only been playing for 3 hours and I was already in Xen?!?!?!
The original Half-Life took me more like 3 weeks to get to Xen!!!
I was already pretty good at Half-Life, but it still took 3 weeks!!! 3 weeks, 3 hours...theres something wrong with that. The ending is very good and is suprising what happens right before it's over, but I still wish they had one final boss like the other 2. I would give this game a 5, but because there is no final boss and it is EXTREMELY short(and I though Opposing Force was short), I have to give it a 3. I would still buy products from Sierra and Valve in the future, but I wish they make their games A LOT longer. I would only recommend buying BlueShift if you already don't have Opposing Force and you really want to know what happens. If you already have Opposing Force, I recommend you borrow BlueShift from a friend because it really ins't worth the money.

More Half-Life w/ a shiny new polish

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Half-Life blueshift, first of all i would like to say that yes, it is more half life fun w/ new gaming experiances. With the HD pack the game looks great. But, there are some things that i was dissapointed in this. First of all, its much to easy, and its incredible short. It took less than 5 hours to beat this.(one night). Is it worth paying around 30? no. I suggest if your a big half-life fan buy it now, unless you can wait for the price to come down at least 10$$. I hope this helped u

It's a Bust!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wait until this comes to the discount shelves or try it our first. Very short no real benifits to buy this game. Want a good action game for free check out Infantry. http://www.infantryzone.com/ Much better play and graphix and best of all it's free.

half-life blue shift

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i generally liked the game, but it seemed to be much to short. very easy too. not as challenging as opposing force or half-life.

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.

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