![]() One of the biggest draws for Half-Life fans will be the HDP, because it boosts the visual quality both the character models and weapons in Blue Shift as well as in the original Half-Life and Opposing Force. On the good side of things, Blue Shift does give the aging Half-Life engine a bit of a facelift with the High Definition Pack (HDP). Now I know that it was originally planned as simply a little extra for Dreamcast owners, but selling a six-hour expansion Half-Life to PC gamers for $30 seems a little excessive to me. Although I didn't keep track of my playing time to the minute, I finished Blue Shift in two sessions, for a combined total of about six hours. 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. A pack that I can rate a 2/5 at most.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. ![]() Sure, it does not has any glaring errors and there were a few nice ideas along the way, tho’ the overall drabness of it all overwhelms those moments. It was 20-30 minutes of wandering through boxy and underdetailed rooms, in which the author randomly throws every trick of the HL book at the player. To get it running under Steam, I installed the disc version of Blue Shift, applied the BS 1.0.0.1 update and finally used ‘Blue Shift Unlocked’ utility from HL Improvement Team to get a compact and updated Blue Shift mod folder under the Steam installation of Half-Life.Ĭan’t say all that trouble was worth it though. It simply gives out an error about a ‘funny lump’ as loading the first map and results in a CtD. “shared”=”C:\\Sierra\\Blue-Shift\\bshift”ĭropping by to inform anyone out there wanting to give this a go that this does not work with the Steam version of Blue Shift as of 2021 (even after applying the BS 1.0.0.1 update, be it through the original installer or manually replacing the. Then the patch will install (point it to the Half-Life Blue Shift folder in Steam) and The Infinite Shift mod will work. reg, and open it again to add it to the registry. Save the following as a text file, change the. You can get the patch to install by adding some entries to your registry. However, if you use the Steam version of Blue Shift instead of the original release, the 1.0.0.1 patch may not recognize Blue Shift as installed, and return an error message about no Half-Life products detected on your computer. Like the readme says, you need to install the 1.0.0.1 patch, bspatch.exe. The Replay Experience Experiment aka TREE.The Infinite Shift -Blue Shift | RTSL Menu
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