There's not much to find objectionable about The Orange Box. Talk about value! With five games in one package, The Orange Box promises a potentially endless wealth of gaming, especially with Team Fortress 2's online play. Today IGN met with Valve to talk about The Orange Box, and took some time to play a little Team Fortress 2 on the Xbox 360 and Portal on the PS3.
First on the agenda was Episode Two. As it takes place mainly outside of City 17, the next installment of the episodic Half-Life series will feature much more open and expansive outdoor settings. IGN saw a new level that started out with Gordon in the buggy outside of a compound in the woods. The foliage in Episode Two was much more dense and full than in Half-Life 2 and Episode One. When asked, a Valve representative told IGN that the PC version of the game wouldn't be using DirectX 10, but that they are using some of DX10's special features, such as the unified shader, through the DX9 API.
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.
HL2 FTW
I'm buying this one!
I am not really into FPS on consoles (that is what PC's are for IMO) but it does sound like good value for money.
Wait 5 games? I thought it was 4. HL2ep1, HL2ep2, Team Fortress, and Portal. Are they including HL2 in this package too?
Man this game looks really nice! Those trees are off the chain and everything looks so life like! Is this game really coming out this year or is it next please anyone?