Better to spend years making a great game than to spend only one year making a mediocre game.
You might get short-term revenue from it, but the disappointment of fans can and will affect you in the long run. Let this game serve as an important lesson for game designers. I'll conclude this review with a commentary. Play Opposing Force if you want, but definitely skip Blue Shift. If you just want to play the best games in the Half-Life series, certainly go with the original. If you're a die-hard Half-Life fan, you'll still like this game, though I doubt you'll consider it as good as the breakthrough 1998 original. With a design that doesn't go beyond the original and a length that's ridiculously short, the game easily falls at my marginally negative rating of 5 out of 10. That's my verdict for Half-Life: Blue Shift.
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In fact, I'll even go as far as to say that Blue Shift feels like a long demo of a Half-Life game rather than a full game itself. That's about one quarter of the original Half-Life game. Basically, Blue Shift has only (get this) SIX levels altogether. Blue Shift is shorter, and I don't mean slightly shorter or even moderately shorter. Opposing Force has fewer levels than the original Half-Life, but still feels long enough to play. Speaking of levels, this is where the disappointment comes in. It's as if this game features new levels of the original game or is a collection of lost levels from the first game. Unlike Opposing Force, which has some new things to kill and new things to kill with, Blue Shift makes no effort to put in anything new. It has the familiar smooth graphics, realistic environments, frighteningly smart enemies, and even the same weapons. The game, overall, borrows all of the features of the first Half-Life game. There's not really a story in this game, because your only goal is to survive. This time, you are Barney Calhoun, one of the security guards at the top-secret Black Mesa research facility where alien creatures are running around. Like Opposing Force, Blue Shift put you in the shoes of a character besides scientist Gordon Freeman from the first game. Half-Life: Blue Shift is the second Half-Life expansion game, released not too long after Half-Life: Opposing Force.
While the game can still be fun, it definitely falls short.
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