So short in fact that even novice FPS players will be able to finish Blue Shift in just a couple of sittings, or one sitting if they're so inclined - and have a strong bladder. And all in all, these conundrums were all logical and well done, although some of the jumping puzzles were frustrating as you can't see your feet to tell where they should be when you land, plus I've always found Half-Life to be a bit heavy on the "rollerskate" feel.īlue Shift also keeps up the epic feel from the original, and there's plenty of plot and scripted sequences to keep you grounded in the backstory, however the epic is much, much shorter this time around. While Blue Shift is a shooter at heart, there's plenty of tricks and puzzles to figure out as you continue to progress on your goal of escaping Black Mesa. Developer Gearbox was responsible for Opposing Force, so they know how a Half-Life game is supposed to work.
Gameplay is pretty much what we've come to expect out of Half-Life - lots and lots of aliens and gunplay.
As a matter of fact, you'll run across some familiar faces from the Half-Life universe, including Gordon himself, that creepy pale guy who works for "The Man," and those pesky special service creeps from Opposing Force sent in to do a little "clean up" after all hell breaks loose. Barney begins his journey to work much like Gordon did, in a tram that takes him deep into the secretive yet now well-known Black Mesa Research Facility. What originally began as a bonus pack for the Dreamcast adaptation of Half-Life, Blue Shift has oddly enough come to the PC first, and may not ever see the light of day for the system it was originally planned for.Īs you probably already know from the preview, in Blue Shift you play as Barney Calhoun, the nervous yet rugged security guard from the original, who happens to be working the rather chaotic day Gordon Freeman accidentally opened an inter-dimensional gateway between the alien world of Xen and rural Nevada. Now we have Half-Life: Blue Shift - a stand-alone simultaneous telling of the orginal Black Mesa episode seen through the eyes of one of the security guards working at the facility.
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