If you have never played any of the fantastic games contained on this one little disc, The Orange Box on the PS3 will blow you away. However, unless you've been under a rock the last few months, you know that The Orange Box came out on two other platforms – the Xbox 360 and the PC. With only one small feature exception (an oh-so-wonderful quicksave not in the 360 version), the game simply plays better on either of those two alternate choices. With that said, it would be easy to get bogged down in some technical issues and miss the larger point by just looking for things to complain about.
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.
TRUTH
more like 8.0
Played HL2 on PC and Eps 1, 2 and portal on PS3. Had a equally enjoyable playing-experience on each platform plus analog controls works like a charm.
Drawbacks:
-equally repetitive
-loadtimes
Still, this ones a keep'er
Let me tell everyone something. I've been playing the orange box for the past few days and there are NO framerate problems with it at all. The only issues I have are load times and TF2's susceptibility to lag (although it may have been my net connection which has been a bit erratic recently). The menus are also a bit annoying as when you press the back button it just does nothing for a few seconds. The actual game is absolutely fine though. I've never played half life before and it's brilliant!
PS The quicksave is a godsend.
I never know that the 360 version doesn't have quick save, why is that?