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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 59.6 hrs on record (9.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 24 Nov, 2018 @ 6:53pm

You're probably expecting me to say how this game sucks. Well, I’m not really going to be doing that because I think this game is actually okay.

Blue Shift doesn’t really add anything new, it’s just more of Half-life. I’ll start with the Pros….

PROS:
- It has Half-life 1’s gameplay so it’s pretty great.
- It expands the Half-life lore so I guess that’s cool
- You play as a Security Guard, the protagonist in Blue Shift is Barney Calhoun. Since you play as Calhoun, you get armor from taking vests and helmets off of dead Security Guards; I like this idea a lot because you can’t just use the HEV charging stations anymore, it makes the game feel a little bit more fresh.
- It adds in the HD pack, I don’t like the HD pack all that much but some people do; but I do like the shotgun model.

I guess that’s it, NOW FOR THE CONS….

CONS:
- THERE’S NO NEW ENEMIES OR NEW WEAPONS!!! Nothing is new at all.
- Dr. Rosenberg is so fu cking annoying: he gets stuck at walls, sometimes he doesn’t follow me and he doesn’t shut the fu ck up. At least I can kill him, but then the game resets. :(
- The soundtrack is barely visible, I only heard two tracks back in XEN and both tracks were forgettable as hell.
- Oh yeah and FU CKING XEN!!!!! YOU GO BACK TO XEN FOR A WHOLE CHAPTER AND IT’S SO FU CKING TEDIOUS!!!
- The game is really short, shorter than Opposing Force. I think it’s about an hour long.

In Conclusion, I think this game is okay. For some reason, everyone likes kicking Blue Shift’s ballsack because it’s an easy target. Personally, I disagree with those people, but I can also see why they would think that way. Blue Shift is probably my fourth favorite Half-life game in the series, I think you should give Blue Shift a try if you played Half-life 1. Joel Vinesauce likes comparing HL1 and its expansions that Half-life 1 is kind of like the burger, Opposing force are the fries, and Blue Shift is the milkshake. I agree with that statement for some reason, I don’t know why.

Just play this game

P.S.
Speaking of Joel Vinesauce, he did this on his Blue Shift Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIVvKL4H1Ts
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