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Blue Shift gives me the Blues

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: July 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Blue Shift, I knew Half-Life and let me tell you, you are no Half-life!"

Disclaimer. I loved Half-life. So it is reasonable that any game that might be compared to it would fall short. Even acknowledging that fact Blue Shift was an extreme disappointment.

Length: It took me roughly 2 hours to get through Blue Shift- roughly the length of a good demo. Half-life, of course, took weeks of seemingly never ending fun. Opposing Forces, although not as exciting as Half-life, was very respectable in length.

Innovativeness: There are no new weapons. There are no new opponents. Worse, the very few irritating things, which were found in Half-life and Opposing Forces, are EMPHASIZED in Blue Shield. For example, those irritating crabs that periodically would attack from vents in Half-life and Opposing Forces appear around every corner in Blue Shield. Not interesting, only a nuisance which detracts from the game. Remember the great music found in Half-life and Opposing Forces, which would set the mood and accompany significant events and the change of locations. For example when you successfully launched the satellite. Don't look for it in Blue Shield, because it isn't there. Unlike Half-life (and to a lesser extent Opposing forces) I did not find myself saying "Wow, What great detail." or "I can't believe they thought of that." The incredible lack of innovativenessng was notable.

Plot: Same plot as Half-life but from a security guard perspective. I liked the way the plot interconnected with Half-life and Opposing Forces. For example, periodically you might see Freeman or the Administrator. Unfortunately, these connections were very infrequent.

Overall Rating. Poor. Blue Shift has none of the wit of Half-life.

Worth the money? Nope, Sorry, I can't recommend (as much as I want to) its purchase.

What's up???

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 18
Date: June 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I saw 12 reviews all dated prior to June 14 when my local best Buy said the game would be available.

How are you people "reviewing" a game which is not yet released?

Or do most of you work for Valve?

PS I had to fill in the star rating field...I have not played this yet either.

Blue Shift- A downward spiral in the Half-Life series

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It seems to me that each Half Life add on is getting worse and worse. I didn't particuarly like Opposing Force but at least it was playable. Blue Shift, on the other hand, is a complete nosedive for the Half Life series. First of all, the game is way too short. I bought this game two days ago and already I'm through with it. To make matters worse, Blue Shift brings NOTHING new to the Half Life series. This is not an overstatement. There are absolutley no new weapons or enemies. You actually get less weapons and fight less enemies than in any other Half Life. There's not even an end boss to fight. Most of the game is devoted to solving puzzles, not blasting away at enemies. At least with Opposing Force they added on some new enemies, new weapons, and a new end boss. It just seemed like the makers of this game just didn't care about making a quality product. It was like someone said "We need money and we need it fast. How about making another Half Life add-on?". Already I'm making plans to sell this game on e-bay. At least then I can recoup some of the money I lost.

Valve is dead!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 17
Date: June 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

Should have been a free download...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just played through Blue-Shift, and I think it is more excellent map making like Opposing Force was. I had many other problems with it though:

1) Why must I have my flashlight on ALL the time? Gearbox, do you realize that having to cycle the flashlight all the time gets quite annoying (or going off and doing something else waiting for it to recharge)?

2) No big end game. The thing closest to a sub-boss you'll see is a tank towards the end. Also it's about as short as Opposing Force. No new enemies or weapons. And not much of a challenge either (I beat it two hours after opening up the box it came in).

3) Why must everything be stand-alone all of a sudden? Why do I need three and 4 copies of everything? And does this mean that all the mod makers out there have the option of making their stuff stand-alone? Is that going to bloat up my drive even more (Gunman Chronicles is about 400MB on my drive (they compressed nothing), total size for everything I have even remotely half-life related is 1.5-2.0 gigs...and they said the M$ op sys was bloated!)?

And the worst part of this whole deal: The Hi-Def Pack. I'll talk about the Hi-Def pack since I ran it on all 3 of it's targets (Half-Life, Blue Shift, Opposing Force).

The new models look good and do add a level of detail to the atmosphere. Bad news coming and there's a lot of it:

1) The textures and models redone were the Half-Life ones only. I expected to load OpFor and see new textures for my squadmates and the DIs and came up with the old material. The OpFor weapons are the same too. Probably the biggest oversight is that Gearbox forgot to redo their own stuff.

2) The textures and models redone were only the weapons, the scientists, barneys, and some of the enemies (I couldn't tell on some of them that there was more detail.). As far as the rest of the game goes, it's the old material, looks the same as it always did (old). I understood from what I read that all the original material would be replaced with hi-def material. Guess I'll be looking at the grungy concrete (or what is that?) walls and the brown stuff that looks like wood, but you really can't tell. And then those signs throughout the complex (the rotating signs at the beginning of Half-Life as an example)you really couldn't read because there weren't enough sprites will have to stay unreadable...

The Hi-Def Pack is highly overrated and reveals sloppiness in my opinion, and I think this whole package should have been a download in it's current form. To make this material, which was originally filler to begin with for a game console port and obviously just slapped together, especially the Hi-Def pack and then charge for it shows a lot of cajones on Sierra's part. Gearbox should have done this right instead of doing a half-assed job, and Valve should have acted to protect the reputation that Half-Life has generated.

This Game Is Lower Then Dirt

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am sorry I got this game a month before it came out, I downloaded it at an anomous web site and it's pathetic. Took like 5mins to download, full ver I mind u. It was about a 120 megabite download. I can tell u ok so u'r Calhoon, a guard. U start off in a tram like usual. Then u like witness sum cool graphix n whatnot. U basically go threw shoot sum swat guys, go thru a portal at the end for sum odd reason, nd get back out. Then go back in and u'r on the outscurs of the whole lab with other scientists. And it ends with u'r jaw droped and wanting more for u'r ... money. I am sorry but this is the worse attempt to draw u'r money from u'r wallet and basically it's like burning $... with a match. U won't see the same $... again nd u'll get frustrated. That's all I have to say to this weak attempt of what they call a game.

Blue Shift - not worth your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Half-Life: Blue Shift lets you play as the obese police officer Barney Calhoun.
The first thing that will strike experienced HL players is the fact that BS is extremely short. Having only 20-odd levels, anyone with even a passing interest for first-person shooters will finish it in 3-4 hours. ( I have done it in 2)
The game's brevity could be forgiven if it's content was of high quality, but once again, BS's levels and game content are nothing to rave about. Following the same principle that HL popularized of having small level clusters, BS's levels are not given a chance to show their full potential.
Most of the levels seemed like a work of amateur designers.

You are better off purchasing Counter-Strike and playing that instead of throwing your money away on Blue Shift.

Too Short

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What a disapointment. This game was too short. I figure maybe six hours of game play with it set on the the easiest setting. The scenery and characters were predictable, with no new additions or strange twists. Wasn't worth the money.

Too Short and awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was not only short but stunk, I think that MODS and other downloads on the internet are far better than this, I think is stinks! If anything I think this game will hurt the sales of newer updates to H-L if this is what we have to look forward to. Sierra puts out garbage all the time.

why i didn't like it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: February 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

when i saw this i thought it would be cool. then i played it and it seemed kinda boring in the begining, but i thought all games aren't the best in the begining. so i played, played, played, and played and it stunk! i don't get why you have guns when theres just people missing there bones. and also the controlls where the WORST and too hard to control. in a nutshell the game stunk, and i don't think you should get it.

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