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Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. The game was released on Steam on August 24, As with Gearbox's previous expansion pack Opposing Force , Blue Shift returns to the setting and events of the original game, but portrays the story through the eyes of another person. After a scientific mishap causes Black Mesa to be invaded by aliens, Calhoun must fight his way to safety.
The game received mostly positive reception. Many reviewers were critical of the short length of the game and the lack of new content, although the inclusion of a High Definition pack that upgraded the models and textures in both Blue Shift and the preceding Half-Life games was praised. As an expansion pack for Half-Life , Blue Shift is a first-person shooter. The overall gameplay of Blue Shift does not significantly differ from that of Half-Life: The player sees everything through the first person perspective of the protagonist and remains in control of the player character for almost all of the game.
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Story events are conveyed through the use of scripted sequences rather than cut scenes. Progress through the game's world is continuous; although the game is divided up into chapters, the only significant pauses are when the game needs to load the next part of an environment.
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The player battles through the game alone, but is occasionally assisted by friendly non-player characters. Security guards and scientists will occasionally help the player in reaching new areas and convey relevant plot information. Blue Shift also includes a substantial section dedicated to keeping a major character in the story safe from enemy characters, and escorting him to a specific location.
The player also encounters human opponents in the form of a detachment of US Marines who have been sent to eliminate the alien threat and silence any witnesses. The player is instead given access to a limited selection of Half-Life ' s original weaponry. In Half-Life , the player takes on the role of Gordon Freeman , a scientist involved in an accident that opens an inter-dimensional portal to the borderworld of Xen , allowing the alien creatures of Xen to attack the facility.
The player guides Freeman in an attempt to escape the facility and close the portal, ultimately traveling to Xen to do so.
The player assumes the role of Barney Calhoun , a security guard working near the labs where the accident takes place. Calhoun is responsible for the preservation of equipment and materials and the welfare of research personnel, and after the accident turns Black Mesa into a warzone, he must work with Dr. Rosenberg, a high-ranking scientist involved in the experiment, to evacuate the facility. Blue Shift begins in a similar manner to Half-Life , as Barney Calhoun rides a train through the Black Mesa facility to reach his place of work. After reporting for duty, Calhoun is instructed to assist in maintenance on a malfunctioning elevator.
The elevator is badly damaged and fails, sending Calhoun plummeting into the depths of Black Mesa. Calhoun regains consciousness at the bottom of the shaft and begins to fight his way to the surface to escape. Emerging near Black Mesa's classification yards , Calhoun learns that Dr. Rosenberg and his colleagues plan to escape the facility using teleportation technology.
Rosenberg then teleports Calhoun to the Xen border world to calibrate research equipment needed to pinpoint a teleport destination outside of Black Mesa. Calhoun travels to the power generators on a lower level to find a fresh power cell while firefights rage between the Marines and the forces of Xen. After returning with a new power cell, Calhoun assists Rosenberg in evacuating the few surviving personnel through the teleporter. Calhoun is the last to enter the portal and as he does so, Marines breach the laboratory and fire on him, causing the teleporter to explode.
As a result of the teleporter's destruction, Calhoun enters a "harmonic reflux", causing him to be rapidly teleported to a variety of locations in Xen and Black Mesa. At one location, he witnesses Freeman's capture by Marines midway through Half-Life , before eventually stabilizing at the intended teleport location with Rosenberg at the outskirts of Black Mesa, where they then escape the facility in a company SUV. A second Half-Life expansion pack , revolving around a security guard in the facility, was first announced in the second quarter of as part of an upcoming Dreamcast version of Half-Life , under the working title Half-Life: As with Opposing Force , the name Blue Shift has a double meaning, referring to both the blue shift light phenomenon, and the name of the shift that the protagonist is assigned to.
A late stage build of the Dreamcast version was eventually leaked to the Internet, featuring essentially complete versions of both Half-Life and Blue Shift. Prior to the cancellation of the Dreamcast version, Sierra announced on March 29, , that Blue Shift would be released for PC as well.
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Blue Shift and the High Definition pack were initially absent from the launch of Valve's content delivery system Steam in September , despite the presence of both Half-Life and Opposing Force on the system. Anthology on September 26, Blue Shift received a mixed reaction from critics, holding overall scores of The game has sold around , copies at retail this figure does not include later sales on Steam.
Though IGN praised the game for maintaining the "epic" feel of the original, Blevins was critical of the relatively short length of the game. In addition, Kasavin described the graphical enhancements brought about by the High Definition pack as "helpful", but noted that "they still don't make Half-Life look like a new game—nor are many of the changes themselves very noticeable". Other reviews echoed complaints about the similarity of Blue Shift to previous games. GameSpy 's reviewer Jamie Madigan stated that "what really pulls the game down is the 'more of the same' factor".
Although writing that the game "feels like just a few more levels for the original game", he noted that this is what Blue Shift was designed to be, given its origins as an add-on for a Dreamcast version of Half-Life. Madigan described the single-player campaign as "decent" and commented that the High Definition pack made the game "worthy of consideration".
Bradwell did, however, criticize the game's artificial intelligence and the occasional bug that caused a player to get stuck on a wall.
In addition, Hill praised the game for showing more activity in the base, noting that "a whole world goes on around you, with people eating at a cantina and scientists doing their laundry. The complex is more alive than ever before". Hill also praised the focus "on a greater interaction with scientists as proper people rather than the two or three models that were cloned throughout the facility who kept repeating the same phrases", describing this as Blue Shift ' s "greatest achievement".
PC Zone ' s review closed by commenting that "as a Dreamcast extra it works perfectly, but as a standalone PC title there's not nearly enough to it.
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