Half-Life: Blue Shift
Half-Life: Blue Shift is an expansion pack for Valve Software's science fiction first-person shooter video game Half-Life. The game was developed by Gearbox Software with Valve Corporation and published by…
Half-Life: Blue Shift is a platform developed by Gearbox Software, released 12 June 2001 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 4 cheat codes for it.
What Half-Life: Blue Shift is
Half-Life: Blue Shift is a platform game developed by Gearbox Software and released in 2001. It was published by Sierra Studios. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GoldSrc.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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. As Calhoun finishes repairs, however, Freeman's experiment takes place and results in a "resonance cascade", causing massive damage to the facility and teleporting alien creatures into the base. 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…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Half-Life series
Half-Life: Blue Shift is the fifth of 24 entries we hold in the Half-Life series. It arrived 7 months after Counter-Strike. The next entry was Half-Life in 2001. Its critic score of 60 is 17 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Half-Life: Alyx at 93.
How it was received
Half-Life: Blue Shift holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average. Players rate it 66, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs.
What it launched against
Half-Life: Blue Shift launched on 12 June 2001, within three weeks of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, NBA Street, Sonic Adventure 2 and Twisted Metal: Black. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, NBA Street, Sonic Adventure 2, Twisted Metal: Black.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 4 cheat entries for Half-Life: Blue Shift — 4 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 3 videos →
Screenshots
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Every code labelled
Half-Life: Blue Shift cheat codes
Enable cheats first
Required before any other cheat command.
Launch with -console, press ~, then type the command.
God mode
You take no damage.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first.
All weapons and ammo
Gives every weapon with full ammunition and the suit.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first.
No clipping
Walk through walls.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first.
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Quick answers
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