In the November 30th 1UP Yours podcast, hosts Garnett Lee, Shane Bettenhausen and John Davison report that they have received the retail version of The Orange Box for PS3. Here are selected quotes from the segment, which begins at around 1:08:36 into the podcast.
"They did overcome a significant number of the frame-rate problems with the code they sent us prior to that."
"They fixed some shit."
"But not all of them."
"They got rid of the really janky parts."
"It just feels like it's just a hair out of sync because it's not quite running smooth. That's that way it is in some of the areas."
"It's slightly, perceptively, not quite as smooth as the 360 version."
"If you own both, you should do 360. But if you have PS3, there's absolutely no reason that you shouldn't get this. It's still too good an experience not play it."
[ Notes: The source link downloads the relevant MP3 segment, whose length is 1 minute and 30 seconds. ]
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.
LOL! 1Up another joke 'review' site.
Just go the F out of business Xbots.
EA is all about "Da Money" and would rather pump out a crappy port. Why didn't EA just wait till March (where there are NO GOOD GAMES RELEASED) and fix the problems?
Poor, EA with Activision bigger than EA now.. I hope EA will work hard to gain their credibility back. If anyones interested, follow the links to see how much EA games credibility has gone down the drain.
http://www.ripoffreport.com...
http://www.consumeraffairs....
http://www.ripten.com/2007/...
http://www.news.com/For-dev...
I for one am getting 'Haze & UT3' both which will be miles better than this crap.
P L A Y B 3 Y O N D
but not till Unreal COD4 Warhawk GT5 Socom KZ2 MGS HOMECHESS get boring. So maybe April 08 for me
even then Warhawk will bring us a snow map and maybe add a motorcycle and a shot gun.
I will get this game thou. 25bucks or less is what this game is worth.
i dont lie
i have a few games on my back burner. Still need to play The Darkness
Not to sound like a PS3fanboy but i cant handle more then one FPS at a time. They bore me fast and with COD4 being so dam good and Unreal being cool with importing mods i just dont have time for more of these types of games for a very long time.
Sorry Haze
Sorry Orange Box
back burner you go. I will see you in the bargin bin someday