CVG reports: " Valve's Orange Box compilation burst its way onto Steam yesterday, the reviews have begun to go live, and early indications show its average review score of 98 (so far) is going to beat both Bioshock and Halo 3. Could this be the highest scoring game of the year? "
The Xbox One Backward Compatible versions of Xbox 360 titles Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, The Orange Box, and Portal are now enhanced for Xbox One X, Microsoft announced.
Nothing but great memories with all these games! Playing Left for dead series during the college years with friends was the best.
Love to see titles coming to BC with enhancements. Would love even more to see Half Life 3.
The year is 2007. Console owners tap their fingers in barely contained impatience. For years they have been starved of Valve's delicious, full-bodied courses, forced to watch from the bleachers as Valve mixes a unique blend of kinetic first-person with extraordinary tech. Besides a brief dalliance with the original Xbox and the PlayStation 2 - which produce pale imitations of its best work - Valve has remained faithful to the PC.
And then, in a flash, five of them arrive at once; neatly packaged morsels for a new generation reared on Microsoft's & later Sony's consoles. Five games, all in one orange box. Valve serves the PC too, for it is October 18 - a day of celebration - and everyone should feast.
Valve didn't really "release" 5 of its greatest games in a single day, Half-Life 2 came out 3 years before The Orange Box. In no other context do we talk about a port being the "release" of a game.
The orange box was an excellent release. I don't think Valve will do much beyond online only games now.
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Little cheeky to talk about it when you know we're still waiting for Half Life 3...the Orange Box included Episode 2 and is still left unfinished story wise to this day.
At this rate we better get a second Orange Box. Half Life 3, Half Life Remake (Black Mesa Mod), TF3 or L4D3 and the HL spin offs like Blue Shift.
Don't know what valve are going to do with Half Life after Mike Laidlaw posted the short version of Episode 3 in August and changed the names and genders.
Go, Gordon! It's your birthday! We gon' party like it's your birthday!
We gon' sip Bacardi like it's your birthday!
Orange Box IS a better a FPS than Halo 3 i must say, multiplayer too, hard to say, haven't played TF2, but if it is anything as big as counterstrike like the reviewers say, then yer its better. But the single player campaign is def better than Halo 3's no doubt! Even Bioshock I must say, basically Bioshock's story telling techniques is Half Life summed up......but Half Life 2, ep1 and 2 are on a much grander scale.
Anyway good news for Valve and the team! I don't know, the wealth of value just screams BUY ME! :D
Orange Box isn't a better FPS in total package then Halo 3. You must be on crack. The multiplayer capabilities of Halo 3 for sure are untouched. Even with the funny Team Fortress 2 multiplayer included in Orange Box.
Half Life 2 + 2 episodes is a must have for real gamers, but graphics are still a bit last gen (textures for sure), but its something that is really worth playing.
You just can't compare Bioshock & Halo 3 with Orange Box. They are both a world of their own.
this year. Not that they had much to begin with.
i don't know about that.
don't get me wrong, i Love Halo and halo 3 was great, but i still think it could have been better. Half life 2 is the only game on the old xbox that i thought was comparable in terms of graphics, story and overall game play.
now that its gone next gen, well apart from graphical changes i hope they have made others changes to half life 2 as well, but even if they have not its still outstanding and story wise it may have a lot more going on then halo 3.
i thought halo 3's story kind of fell flat in a lot of areas. it could have been better.
i don't think the multiplayer will be as good as halo3's, but the overall package at that price is a must have.
other devs should take heed to the way Valve take are of there fans. they take their time, but when they deliver is full on and they still manage to remember that we are gamers and not all the sons of wealthy bankers etc.
publishers could take notes to. This is the kind of value for money that we should be getting for our games. if they can do it, ...never mind they never will anyway.
His opinion. Mine is different.
Orange Box is a must have for sure though.