Orange Box beats Bioshock, Halo 3

xhi4 - 819 days 3 hours ago

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

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 819 days 3 hours ago

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.

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skitzoid - 819 days 2 hours ago

this year. Not that they had much to begin with.

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DARK WITNESS - 819 days 1 hour ago

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.

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nobizlikesnowbiz - 819 days 1 hour ago

His opinion. Mine is different.

Orange Box is a must have for sure though.

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PimpHandHappy - 819 days 1 hour ago

for this to hit the PS3

its a must buy for me because i didnt play much of HL2 and really would love to get into this story...Plus Fortress looks like it might be a total blast.

anway

Nov and Dec are going to take a large amount of money from my bank account

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FordGTGuy - 819 days 1 hour ago

What a stupid article for not even mentioning that fact.

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Jack Bauer - 819 days 1 hour ago

wow this is retartded... Bioshock had the same score with less than 10 reviews...who approved this crap?

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tony - 819 days 1 hour ago

the same thing they said of halo 3 beating bioshock on reviews and it was too soon to tell. now bioshock still has the best review average compare to halo 3. how many 100's you see in the metacritic chart? the same thing can happened to the orange box. anyways i love the half life series its just too soon to say that is beating halo3 or bioshock in reviews. cvg did it again, misleading gamers.

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mighty_douche - 819 days 1 hour ago

GREATEST FPS TO DATE..... its a leaps and bounds ahead of anything else so far, maybe crysis will change that but story wise i doubt it.

GO BUY IT NOW PEOPLE!!

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Ravenator529 - 819 days ago

Does it deserve the perfect scores? Probably so. But the scores are primarily based on the value of the Orange Box.

You get 5 great games for the price of one game. There is no way they could sell Portal, TF2, Episode 1, Episode 2, or Half Life 2 on their own for $60 a piece.

Portal takes about 3 hours of time to work through, Episode 1 and 2 are more of an "expansion" rather than a whole game, Half Life 2 is almost 4 years old and TF2 could possibly retail for $30 at most. It only has 6 maps.

But bundled all together for $60, and you have yourself an insane value.

I sat down to play it yesterday and I thought to myself "when am I going to have enough time to actually play through the entire Orange Box?" It really is a great problem to have!

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kamisama - 819 days ago

I love my orange box its so much better than ps3 and so much more game play hence multiple games lolz. Im sorry to say but if u want the tru orange box experience its really got to be on the PC my friends

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scoobysnacks - 819 days ago

Well for me Half-life takes it, and going by critical acclaim, most game journalists over the years prefer the Halflife games over Halo. Don’t get me wrong, Halo is a good franchise, I remember looking forward to getting it on PC, but then MS came along needing a killer game for its new Xbox console, snapped Bungie up, and delayed the launch of the game for PC’s, so that they could have a timed exclusive. The first Halo is by far still the best game of the three Halo’s.

Now score wise, on average for the two franchises, Halflife comes out on top.

As far a I’m aware, the first Halflife wasn’t available for xbox, so taking the PC scores for both of the first games, Halo scored an average of 86.2%, Halflife scored an average of 94.6. Now Halo on the Xbox gets 95.5 average, even if I take that into account and average the 2 scores, it still only puts the original Halo at about 91% (a great score, but not beating Halflife).

The sequels:
On PC, Halo 2 scored an average of 73.6, whereas HL2 scored 95.5.
On the Xbox, Halo 2 scored an average of 94.6 beating HL2 on xbox at an average of 89.5.

Now onto the 3rd games, Halo 3 scores an average of 93.8 on the 360, its not available yet on PC, but the orange box on the PC scores an average of 96.9 and on the 360 an average of 98.2. I’ve not even taken into account HL2 ep1 or team fortress.

Overall, i’ve enjoyed the Halflife games more. Halflife pretty much started the epic story line, cinematic approach that FPS use today, and throughout all the games and add-ons, they have set the standard for others to follow.

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picker332 - 819 days ago

Lol i'm not a 360 fan but i've play'd Halo 3 a little and it's fun but
for the orangebox,well i've only play'd team fortress 2 beta and i like'd it at first but in my opinion it get's boring pretty fast but 3 games for 50/60 dollars is pretty neat..If you count portal as a game, in my opinion it's more like a mod.
If just hl2 episode 2 would be in the box then the game would lose,But now you get 3 game's and it is there the score's take play's.

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sleepbox - 819 days ago

Orange Box > Halo 3.

Sorry, but Halo 3 left out 2 things that completely KILLED multiplayer for me...

1. A custom game browser
2. The ability to have people other than friends or recent players join your online co-op games

Orange Box is the best value in the history of video games..outside of, maybe the GTA trilogy

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ukilnme - 819 days ago

I am glad that Orange Box is being well received. Halo 3 and Bioshock were well received also. Orange Box will be another must have for me. For now the only way to play all 3 in one place is the 360.

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Thugbot187 - 818 days 23 hours ago

yea but it's not going to sale like Halo 3.

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Killer B - 818 days 23 hours ago

I bought this yesterday and didn't even take the wrapper off last night because I was too busy w/ Halo 3 still...Matchmaking and Campaign. However, I can't wait to tear into all goodies O.B. has to offer. It looks like the reviews are very good for this package, as expected. Now the only problem is finding the time to play this, Halo 3, get back to finishing Bioshock on Hard...then pick up Mass Effect in Novemeber...Geez. I need more free time! I need more gaming $$! Too many good games this year. I think choosing a GOTY is going to be very challenging.

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idontcare - 818 days 22 hours ago

yeah .. orange box games have last gen graphics.

so that's why Valve said that they already reached the 360s full potential ..

lolol, you're so stupid man. let it be!

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IRONMAN_357kickback - 818 days 21 hours ago

cant wait for the ps3 version so we get more content, great

I NEW ORANGEBOX WAS A GODSENT,OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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zonetrooper5 - 818 days 21 hours ago

Ironman, get the PC version like I'm getting and you get far more content, better graphics and just so much more for a cheaper price. Sorry, but get the PC version of the Orange Box as it will be better than the console versions.

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FrostyMelon - 818 days 20 hours ago

It's not getting high reviews because of the quantity. It's all about quality...Half-Life is the best FPS SP out there, hands down. And, TF2...my first games were last night...LOL! What a fricking blast!

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XGamer - 818 days 20 hours ago

There's no way to compare it to being better than BIOSHOCK nor The beast that is HALO 3.

Halo 3 will rain supreme for ever unless another HALO product fills the void. Halo Wars, maybe, or maybe a Halo 4 type of game, possibly an RPG.

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