Half-Life: Blue Shift

This game was like sprinkles on a donut, half life is the main course "the donut" but putting the sprinkles "blue shift" on the donut adds more too it. Sure it's just sprinkles but most people would agree that adding sprinkles will enhance the favor of the dount. The security in blue shift certainly would agree, and I do too.

Half-Life: Blue Shift is essentially just a handful of new levels for Half-Life, most of which are pretty good but not as good as the base game's levels. It introduces very little new content otherwise and just doesn't really justify being its own product.

Not as good gameplay wise as opposing force but the story is the perfect length, make sure to either play the unofficial pc port of decay after this or the ps2 version of half-life or watch a playthrough of it (make sure all the chapters are there the top vid is missing two)

This is a good expansion pack for Half-Life, but it's too short. It's not bad, but it could've been longer. It doesn't feature any new weapons or enemies, but it's still an interesting story. You still get to explore new areas of Black Mesa, and a new area of Xen. Overall, this game is good, but not as good as Opposing Force,.

HEYYYYY GAMER GIRLS<3

This honestly was a lot better than I was expecting, it's a chaotic rush that feels like a more true expansion of HL1's story than Opposing Force was.

I may as well say this too: Wow HL Decay stinky. It stinks so bad. Decay's finally playable again on PC and it's not good. Very obviously limited by PS2 specs. If the fanbase wants to take it seriously as another expansion then it kind of needs a remake that makes it more PC suited.

While it isn't that long, this is the best place to learn bhopping in GoldSource.

A Nice Companion

Weakest of the 3 expansions, however, it's still pretty fun.

It's short n' sweet, leaning on the short side, but I like Barney too much to give this a negative review.

I WILL complain about how in Half-Life 1, you see the security guard banging at the door wearing his helmet and vest, but in this game he's not wearing it until he gets inside. Fix your lore, Valve.

Love this game. It's short but quite fun. I also love the character Dr. Rosenberg. I think he's great.

This is another great expansion that gives you the prospective of a security guard known as Barney Calhoun, with lots of new levels and even some new enemy types, this expansion goes great with the original Half-Life and Opposing Force.

Short and Sweet. A bit pricey for $5 Dollars but i would recommend. Music cuts when you transition in a level which is lame as that didn't happen in base Half-Life 1.

This game puts you in the shoes of Barney, whom we already know from the original game, offering a unique view of the events from Half-life. Even tho the campaign is short (about 2-3h) and lacks major gameplay innovations (weapons, enemies, bosses, etc.), it delivers a solid narrative and classic Half-Life vibes.

If you're a fan of series, it's a great way to explore more of the games universe.

If you're going to go back to the original half-life games, this is the only one you should go back to. I went into this after the nightmare I had on the base game and was expecting the same thing. Except, it was surprisingly and slightly better? The combat was better paced, the platforming was slightly better and overall saved my experience with the original half-life and its expansions. 7/10

The Beer’s a Bit Flat

Playing as Barney Calhoun, the security guard who once promised Gordon Freeman a beer, Blue Shift offers a nostalgic return to Black Mesa. The improved visuals and new perspective are great, but the short playtime and lack of new mechanics leave it feeling more like a quick sip than a full pint.

Score: 7/10 – Fun, but you’ll finish it faster than Barney can say, “About that beer I owe ya.” 🍺

the best story line this game has all the 2000's half life series were best half life , opposing force , blueshift this games were great <3 absolutely love it.

It's fun but I'm not a fan of the Xen cave maze area. Other than that it's a fun game! Also Black Mesa BLUE SHIFT mod is out. Go check that out too!

I loved this expansion! Even though it's shorter, it felt much more involved in the overall events of Half Life than Opposing Force did. Where OF kind of felt like the devs saying "here are the counter strike weapons to play with" this expansion felt more like an attempt at making cool environmental puzzles. Would absolutely play it again. Also worth noting I got far fewer annoying and soft-locking bugs than I did in OF but your mileage may very.

Blue Shift is kind of short, but it's a fun, quaint little experience. It doesn't have that many weapons or gimmicks, it's just doing its own thing. I kind of appreciate it for that. It's just kind of a comfy game, it's hard to explain. It also doesn't have terrible design during the last act like a certain other Half-Life expansion does.

not nearly as good as opposing force.Same weapons,same enemys,story is a bit boring,no ending boos fight.Would still recommend bcs its a hl game 6/10

If you are planing on getting this game, get it on sale, it is way shorter than you can expect, honestly I had more trouble with the puzzles, cause of the wacky physics, than shooting enemies but overall its fine, just really short.

Not exactly sure if Half-Life: Blue Shift is considered canon, but its a good sidestory that gives a new perspective on the events of the Resonance Cascade.

Pretty short game, but entertaining. Easier than opposing force in terms of combat, but I do feel that the puzzles in this game are more challenging than that of opposing force.

A great expansion to Half Life. While it was no where near as long as the original, I still had a lot of fun playing. Also the soundtrack for Blue Shift is awesome!

I enjoyed this way more than the base game. Super fun short little story with incredible map design.

Really good, not as good as the other expansions, but still really cool and adds backstory to Barney

It's alright.

The combat is not as good as opposing force. The intro and outros both dragged considerably, and they gameplay between was very short.

Some of the puzzles were a little annoying. Moving the two coils frustrated me as I threw a grenade at them and nothing happened so I assumed the puzzle had nothing to do with them. Charging the power cell was irritating too because I didn't realise that's what I had to do and I went up and down the lift before the game told me to go back, which was just irksome.

A relic of it's time, play only if curious.

This game is quite good and has held up well. Didn't have any real issues with it other than a single crash. Very good, and frequently very cheap.

The only bad sides of the Blue Shift is that it's too short and it's too easy on hard difficulty. There's no new enemies like in opposing horse, but it makes the game feel more welcoming like the original half life along side with familiar locations rather than being an off-setting adrian shephard fighting damned shock troopers in some deep dark facilities.

Though it is great to see more of an outside Black Mesa and a bit updated Zen. Definitely a must to play after beating half life

A good companion piece for HL1 and HL2. Not really any new ideas; but if you enjoy the other Half-life games its short and worth a try.

This is probably a controversial take, but, I enjoyed Blue Shift more than Opposing Force. It's shorter, it doesn't add any new weapons or enemies, but it feels solidly designed and there's more of an actual story here. There's an intro segment where you interact with other Black Mesa staff members, and more overall interaction with characters. It felt more Half-Life to me as a result idk.

It might be a case of, being told Blue Shift is not worth my time, so having very low expectations. Who knows. It's more Half-Life, and it's an afternoon kind of expansion. Honestly if you're looking for more to play, it's worth picking up.

A really fun experience and addition to the HL universe. Not quite as good as HL, and nowhere near as good as HL:OF. The lack of new weapons kind of let it down, but the crossover moments where just as cool

A short add on to the Half Life story. Playing as Officer Barney Calhoun of Black Mesa you're tasked with escaping the facility, dodging Military personnel as you work toward the exit.
The main focus of Blue Shift is on puzzles, you will be thinking outside of the box to progress and each puzzles was just hard enough to be rewarding but not tedious. A player could easily beat the game in a few hours. Definitely worth playing if you've already gone through Half Life, and want to see how the scientists present in the sequel escaped.

if you liked the original Half-Life, this is a fun, sort-of side perspective of the original campaign, as well as serving as the origin story for Barney in HL2.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☑ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Basically just more of the original half life but with less guns, and its more Npc communication based than the first game. Should get it if you enjoyed the original.

Half-Life: Blue Shift isn't a bad game, but it's the weakest Half-Life game I've played so far. I'm only half an hour into Opposing Force and already I like that DLC more.

The early part of the game is pretty boring with sewer levels, an annoying box stacking puzzle, and a very limited choice of weapons. There are also lots and lots of headcrabs everywhere in all kinds of places. The game gets much better once you start encountering marines and better weapons, but don't expect anything cool like the cliff battles in Half-Life 1's Surface Tension level. There is also a Xen level but there wasn't a lot of platforming involved so I didn't think it was that bad. However, I did jump onto a platform in Xen that kept damaging me for no reason. It seemed like I was stuck inside it somehow because I couldn't get off it and had to reload a save.

Blue Shift is also very short, so I suppose if you want to be a completionist or really need to know how Barney escapes Black Mesa it's worth playing, but I'd skip this otherwise. Besides, the devs who made Black Mesa have a mostly finished and free remake of this DLC so you could play that instead.

Very good expansion.
Pretty short, sweet, you see plenty of moments that took place in HL1, you don't fight any huge monsters or save the world, you just escape from Black Mesa with your colleagues, and that's very neat. It's simply more HL1 content, and I think that's what it needed to be. I liked it more than Opposing Force, to be honest. My biggest and only complaint is how INSANELY OVERUSED the headcrabs here. Like, I'm not kidding you, in every single vent and around every single there were headcrabs waiting to jumpscare you, it got really tiresome. However, it says a lot that THAT is my biggest complain. Pretty good stuff!

By far the weakest part of the Half-Life franchise, but it's still Half-Life, so the foundation is exceptional even if the expansion itself is unremarkable compared to the original.

Very short, at least compared to the other half-life games, being only 3 hours on hard mode for me. It was really only about 2 hours but I spent one of those hours on one part where I ran out of ammo and was out of health (not a fun part). I game has a basic story but some cool references to the other half-life games. It also have new weapons that weren't in Opposing force or the original which are just as fun as the classics.

I would give it a mixed review, but I tend not to recommend Blue Shift. I don't like puzzles in this game, it is pretty easy even on the hard difficulty, with the main struggle being level design.

"Half-Life: Blue Shift" offers a fresh perspective on the Black Mesa incident, telling the story from the viewpoint of a security guard.

The game's level design is impressive, with many familiar locations from Half-Life being revisited from a different angle.

Good game but not even half as challenging as the main game

great expansion on the original story. although i had to restart multiple sections due to bugs with Dr Rosenberg's AI, it was still very fun.

It's okay for taking the "edge" off but not strong as Opposing Force , if on sale can be bought .

P.S : Too many headcrabs :/

Pretty good, it's just more Half Life 1 content if you've beat the main game and want more of it. It is more well polished and less buggy than Opposing Force but shorter and only has Half Life 1 weapons and enemies in it. It really feels just like more of the original game whereas OF adds a bunch of new things.

I recommend playing this one first after beating the main game as it will be a very smooth transition before moving onto Opposing Force.

If you really love Half Life and just want more of it and don't mind spending 5 dollars for 5 hours of content go ahead. It is worth it.

its my child hood dream to become a security guard and not a police officer 100% fr with that one didn't get rejected from NYPD. cool game try it now

i can see where the hate is coming from, it doesnt compare to the rest, but STILL i would highly recommend trying it! never hurts to play extra half life content!

Great game would recommend even after having to go to hospital because of a epilepsy seizure because of the portal at the end.