Edmonton Sun/Canoe reviews The Orange Box:
It doesn't come in a helmet-shaped collector's case suitable for tormenting pets, and there are no pewter figurines, cloth maps or making-of DVDs inside. But The Orange Box could well be this year's -- nay, this decade's -- ultimate compilation of unadulterated gaming goodness.
Bottom Line: This five-in-one Half-Life 2 anthology offers huge bang for your gaming buck, and the inclusion of Team Fortress 2 and the innovative Portal make it a must-own.
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.
Robin Walker discusses the impact of Portal, Team Fortress 2 and more.
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.
Totally worth buying, I've already put about 60 hours into it.
The Orange Box is "KILLER"
I love HL (original) and could not wait for HL2 for my PC ... played it 3 times. Was going to buy Epi 1 but then heard about it for the 360 a long long time ago so waited.
SO ... now that I have the Orange Box I am LOVEING IT. Played HL2 yet again and now into Epi 1. Portal is also addictive as hell and TF2 is a blast with great artistic backing.
" IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT ................. WHY NOT ?? "
its the most stupidest and randomest thing ever. sucks!!!