GameTrailers.com review The Orange Box
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.
Fantastic, not one mention of the PC version of the box.
... WHY NOT !!!
It is awsome and a MUST BUY.
PORTAL is wicked. Just when you think you are done, the fun just starts .. REALLY
9.3 is kinda low imo...when you compare it to their reviews of halo 3 and metroid (*not overall, 9.3 is a great score*)...not that they didnt deserve those scores, i just think orange box is at that level.
I NEVER PLAYED THE GAME AND JUST LOOKING AT THE VIDEO MAKES ME WANT TO PLAY IT, AND HALO SHOULD HAVE NEVER GOT RATED THAT HIGH, IT WAS A GOOD GAME BUT OVER ALL COMPARED TO GOW ITS NO WHERE THERE. HALO ONLY GOT GOOD REVIEWS COUSE OF ITS ONLINE PLAY AND THAT TAKES FOR EVER TO GET ON.
I would nominate Orange Box as GOTY if Half Life 2 hadn't won over 40 such awards when it was released! THIS IS A MUST OWN. Anyone who plays games must experience the awe that is Half Life 2. Graphics are pretty good for something that was released 3 years ago.
I'm playing it and it runs better than on my PC years ago, plus there's no tearing and smooth framerates except a couple times when there are lots of exploding barrels on-screen. I haven't even played Portal (except a few minutes) because I got sucked into Half Life 2 and I can't stop. I haven't played Folklore on PS3 or Skate on 360 yet (they're both sitting on my floor by the TV) because this game IS THAT GOOD!