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Description

Return to the Black Mesa complex in this additional Half-Life storyline module from Half-Life: Opposing Force developer Gearbox. In this module, you play Barney Calhoun, a security officer working Blue Shift who is present at Black Mesa at the same time as Gordon Freeman. Your goal is to try to get out of Black Mesa alive as all hell breaks loose and reality is altered around you.

Additionally included in the Blue Shift package are:
  • The Half-Life engine -- You aren't required to own the original Half-Life to play Blue Shift

  • Half-Life: Opposing Force: the previous storyline module from Gearbox, where you play through the Black Mesa mishap from the point of a clean-up soldier

  • The Half-Life High Definition Pack: replaces most of the Half-Life/Opposing Force/Blue Shift player and weapon models and textures with updated high-res models and textures

Alternate Titles

  • "戰慄時空:關鍵時刻" -- Chinese title (traditional)
  • "半条命: 蓝色行动" -- Chinese title (simplified)
  • "HL: BS" -- Informal abbreviation
  • "Half-Life: Guard Duty" -- Working title
  • "Bantiao Ming: Lanse Xingdong" -- Chinese title
  • "ハーフライフ: ブルーシフト" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups


Merchant Title Platform Price  
ebay.com
Half-Life: Blue Shift    
amazon.com
Half-Life Platinum Collection Second Edition Windows $16.48  
Counter-Strike 1 Anthology Windows $9.99  
The Orange Box Windows $47.99  
Half-Life 2: Episode One Windows $9.99  
Counter-Strike: Source Windows $27.99  
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User Reviews

You are not authorized to view this one-line summary Black Wolf (36083) unrated
The Making of Barney Calhoun vicrabb (4138) 3.2 Stars3.2 Stars3.2 Stars3.2 Stars3.2 Stars
More Half-Life to feed your craving. Steelysama (91) 4.8 Stars4.8 Stars4.8 Stars4.8 Stars4.8 Stars
Should have been cheaper but worth the money if you don't have Opposing Force yet Rebel_lord (34) 4.2 Stars4.2 Stars4.2 Stars4.2 Stars4.2 Stars
Short, but sweet Trixter Bronze Star Contributing Member (8886) 3.6 Stars3.6 Stars3.6 Stars3.6 Stars3.6 Stars
quality rather then quantity connor steven (5) unrated
Short, but overall good Stargazer (99) 4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars4.6 Stars
Surprisingly Not Boo Shift. MasterMegid (719) 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars
Perfect asset to fit the trilogy. MAT Bronze Star Contributing Member (34669) 4.8 Stars4.8 Stars4.8 Stars4.8 Stars4.8 Stars
The worst parts of Half-Life with a new main character devils102 (18) 3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars

The Press Says

GameZone Jun 28, 2001 9 out of 10 90
Armchair Empire, The Jul 06, 2001 8.7 out of 10 87
Game Chronicles Jun 25, 2001 7.6 out of 10 76
Game Over Online Jun 17, 2001 74 out of 100 74
Svenska PC Gamer Jul, 2001 72 out of 100 72
ActionTrip Jun 13, 2001 68 out of 100 68
Game Revolution Jun 01, 2001 B- 67
Kingdom of Desire Oct 19, 2008 6.5 out of 10 65
PC Gameplay (Benelux) Jul, 2001 56 out of 100 56
HonestGamers Jun 09, 2008 5 out of 10 50

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Trivia

The name of the main character, Barney Calhoun, is a tongue-in-cheek reference to what most fans of Half-Life starting calling the various security guards around the Black Mesa complex in both Half-Life and Opposing Force.

(Fans called the security guards "Barneys" because they were usually slow, dim-witted, and not very helpful, which is very much like the deputy sheriff "Barney" on the old show "The Andy Griffith Show".)


This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by frin (148) on Jun 24, 2001.
 

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