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Barney Blueshift, rules or sucks?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 34 / 56
Date: May 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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...

Awesome expansion pack - you know you want it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 31
Date: April 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Okay, so the original Half Life is almost 3 years old now, but you still love it don't you? You play the mods on the Internet. The awesome storyline, the interactive scenery, the scientists that babble to each other and get sucked into ventilation shafts. Great wasn't it?

The best thing about this expansion pack is that it upgrades the original game and Opposing Force graphically - better weapons, and more detailed aliens. And you know what that means? You're going to have to play the first 2 games again before starting on this one! It's worth it!

In Blue Shift, you play the security guard which you meet as Gordon Freeman in the first game right at the start. Originally supposed to be a bonus game on the Dreamcast, the developers have made it into a full game.

This should be it for expansion packs, Valve should take this away for a bit and come back with Half Life 2 based on the Doom 3 engine for example, this is probably the last mission pack they can squeeze out of this narrative. Essential.

Another Classic! HL : Blue Shift comes to town!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 19
Date: April 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

HALF-LIFE: BLUE SHIFT

As security in this top-secret government facility, you must scramble to keep the scientists and yourself alive, as you extinguish the many hostiles attempting to take you out. It's going to be quite a day...

Besides getting Blue Shift you also get HL: Opposing Force, and the Half-life High Definition Pack!! The HDP Upgrades all your HL games to now a day graphics! all your Character models,Enemy Models get updated to better and realer looking ones and your firepower also gets updated! Like the old MP5 weapon with Grenade Launcher is now a Assault Rifle with Grenade Launcher! also you Get Opposing Force Capture the Flag and you get the same AWESOME Online Multi-Play you got in the other games...

Over all this is one to get! And if you want to see it in action get the Official HL: Blue Shift Trailer at the Sierra Studios its a 17MB Download but well worth the wait for 56k modem users! as for DSL or Cable modem users... YOUR LUCKY! :-)

Half Life: Blue Shift

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 24
Date: April 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I loved Half Life and Opposing Force. I have seen the trailer of Blue Shift. You played a scientist in Half Life, A Commando in Opposing Force and now a security gaurd in Blue Shift. I hope it does not have the same ending as Half Life and Opposing Force, Half life's ending was superb but when Opposing Force had the same climax it was very dissapointing, I hope Blue Shift does not dissapoint us with the same kind of climax.

Finally i have been told that the security gaurd you play in this game has only one weapon as the security gaurds in the black mesa must have only a hand gun according to the orginal game Half Life.

........JUST KIDDING.

Great Chapter in the Half-Life Saga!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: June 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You played the hero. You played the villain. Now, you play the Barney. Okay, it may not be as long or intense as the original Half-Life, but you have to give "Blue Shifts" marks in many other areas. The new graphic and weapon designs are amazing, greatly improving the playing experience. The price is worth it simply for the updated graphics, since going back through Half-Life and Opposing Force with the new graphics is like playing a completely different game. For those of you who hated the Xen levels in Half-Life, you'll be happy to know that only one level in Blue Shift sports you on the alien world. In my opinion, the Xen level in Blue Shift is the best in the entire series, so even you avid Xen haters might find yourselves gaping at one or two turns along the road. I also approve of how the programmers added a different character from the other scientists and barneys you meet along the journey in the character of Dr. Rosenberg. If anything was missing from the original Half-Life it would have been a main character other than Freeman and the G-man. Blue Shift fills this void excellently. You really feel like you have scientists around you who can actually help instead of hinder your progress, something you never felt in either Op Force or Half-Life. Of course, in Blue Shift you get to explore all new areas of the incredibly huge Black Mesa Research Facility. Perhaps the most interesting locales you see are during your tram ride into work: a dry cleaners with a Barney and scientist playing a street fighter like game; a futuristic food court with pizza and ham burger restaurants; a really cool looking science lab with glass floors and computers galore, among many other things. At the end you also get to see one of the very first teleportation machines the scientists at Black Mesa invented. Remember the machine Gordon Freeman used in Half-Life? It's similar, only older looking and a bit smaller.

Now, as you might imagine, there are some set backs to the game. My number one gripe was the length. If you thought Op Force was short, it'll seem three times as long after playing Blue Shift. In spite of the shortness, however, the game has no boring or repetitive levels which means the replay value is quite high. Another grip is Gordon Freeman. You only get to see him for a quick second at the beginning and end of the game! It would have been a smart move on Vavle's part to add Gordon a little more to your plight. In spite of the setbacks, though, the positives vastly outweigh the negatives. It was very fun coming back to the Half-Life universe again, playing a timid security guard who is caught in right in the middle of the "incident" at Black Mesa. I look forward to Half Life 2, whatever that might bring!

Half Life Blue Shift Is Comeing!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: June 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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!!!!! ...

Something new from Valve?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 19
Date: May 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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

it should be good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: June 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

Blue Shift

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is great, telling from what I see. Either though it is pretty short, it is still fun to run around a couple times killing the scientists for no apparent reason. It adds better graphics and adds DOUBLE the amount of polys. Another thing to do is skip the tram ride and type SV_CHEATS 1 in console then write /noclip in the console. You can go out of the tram and find a lunch area...

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!

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