Half Life: Blue Shift available free on Steam

**Shannow** · 21st August 2005, 4:45pm

And all you need for it it is to own half life 1

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Friday, August 19 2005

In the next month or so there will be a number of Valve products being made available on Steam, but this week we'd like to spotlight a game that is being built using the Source engine.

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic has been announced, and is being developed by Arkane Studios. Everyone around Valve played most of the previous Might and Magic games, and we're all big fans of Arkane's previous work. Like a lot of gamers, we're looking foward to playing the finished product.

We'll also be releasing Half-Life: Blue Shift on Steam next week, which will be automatically playable by anyone who owns Half-Life 1, including those who purchased the Half-Life 2 Silver or Gold packages.

I'm led to beleieve its fairly short, but fuck it, they're giving it away for free.

Disco_Stew · 21st August 2005, 4:57pm

awesome!!, I hope they do the same for opposing force.

**Shannow** · 21st August 2005, 4:59pm

Erm, i think it's available already, or at least, i seem to have it.

**Shannow** · 21st August 2005, 5:04pm

*checks*

Yes, i do indeed.

Disco_Stew · 21st August 2005, 5:06pm

I havent played opposing force yet

adrenalize · 21st August 2005, 5:09pm

Yeh, opposing force came free with half life 1.

I seen the blueshift news yesterday which im pretty happy about, ive been looking for a copy of it without needing to buy the Half Life Generations pack with all the first set of games, so this will soave me some cash

**Shannow** · 21st August 2005, 5:10pm

It's pretty good for the mosrt part, there's an absolutely fucking hiorrible section down in some sewers with giant beast of fucks mauling you from all sides, and the final boss is pretty shitty, but there's lots of fun bits, loads of new guns, some new beasts to fight, and much like you could do with gordon in HL with the scientists and security guards, Shepard can get other grunts to tag along with him to add some extra firepower and other stuff.

**PapaZeb** · 21st August 2005, 5:17pm

Weesht, chat more about the Might and Magic game with the Source engine. The movie clips for that look freakin sweet.

Witchhunter · 21st August 2005, 8:00pm

I played it when it came out, I wish they'd stop giving away games I already own >-<
Its not bad, pretty fun infact but the end boss is shit (I hate end bosses though! they just suck, period).
I'd be interested if it had been converted to source...ho hum

adrenalize · 21st August 2005, 8:11pm

No doubt some clever people will convert it to source, ive already seen www.blackmesasource.com, and im pretty sure theres one for opposing force so i dont doubt that blue shift will be up soon as well

**Shannow** · 21st August 2005, 8:13pm

*cough*
http://www.opposingsource.com/

adrenalize · 21st August 2005, 8:14pm

I knew it was somewhere

Witchhunter · 21st August 2005, 9:00pm

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Originally Posted by adrenalize

No doubt some clever people will convert it to source, ive already seen www.blackmesasource.com, and im pretty sure theres one for opposing force so i dont doubt that blue shift will be up soon as well

Hell yeh I can't wait for black mesa source and damn opposing source looks good (although not as good as bms), although I wasn't to keen on that addon.

adrenalize · 22nd August 2005, 9:45pm

Im looking forward to the golden eye mod more

Even tho its a multiplayer mod i LOVE playing deathmatch GE on the n64, its the only reason i have it

adrenalize · 27th August 2005, 10:32pm

thats it avalible on steam to download now, ive just downloaded it and im off to play seeing as no one is playing unreal.

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