Half Life 2:Orange Box (360)

OME6A · 10-03-2007

I'm not sure if anyone else has been looking at this, but Half Life 2: Orange Box comes out 10/9. I'm not big on Half Life, in fact I've never played it before, but it comes with 5 games for $60.

One of the five games is called Team Fortress 2, and that's what I'm getting it for. It's a fun, cartoony looking class-based online shooter. Kinda like XIII from the PS2, if you ever played that, but way better.

Here's a great article on it:
IGN: The Orange Box Preview

Check out these videos for it, it looks like some good fun:
Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Video 5

I'll be trading in Halo 3 for this, so you won't be seeing me on Halo after it comes out. Halo looks great, and the campaign is awesome, but multiplayer is garbage. I've never played a more rediculous game than it.

NUN-PUNCHER · 10-03-2007

I've been watching it.
I've played Half-Life ( PS2) & Half Life 2 ( XBOX ) . The stories are great and the Graphics for Half Life 2 on the OG XboX was some of the best visuals and sound effects that came out on that console.

After looking at it I'm a little confused with the 3 part versions of Half Life 2 ????

The Multiplayer Team Fortress game looks cool . The graphics look different from what I'm used to with the Gordon Freeman story line.
The graphics do remind me alot of XIII, you don't see much cell-shading graphics that much.

I'm also waiting to see how Mass Effect is since it looks like the best thing since Star Wars: KOTOR 1 & 2 . I love Sci-Fi Games

Playing Halo 3 is like eating a Double Quarter Pounder w/ Cheese from McDonalds everyday.

If Half Life OB gets good MP Reviews I'll pick it up. From what I remember the weapons from Half Life 2 are pretty Spiffy. I've been playing games with excellent SP and really bad MP ( The Darkness , Stranglehold , Halo 3 ) so I must be a little stand-off-ish.

oxfordfreestyl · 10-04-2007

Team Fortress looks like a new Fighting Force. FF was a game that was on the original PS, and was ****ing fun as hell.

OME6A · 10-04-2007

I love it already. I imagine it is what it would look like if Pixar made an A-Team movie.

anne022196 · 10-04-2007

i've heard about this team fortress 2... i've played half-life and this is a very great game...well Team fortress 2 looks great i think...and more challenging game... **The highlight of Team Fortress 2 is definitely the variety offered by its nine different character classes.

corlock · 10-04-2007

I'm going to play this game for I am a fan of half-life and counter-strike...1on1 anyone?

Libertine · 10-04-2007

I'll need to see the reviews and how much fun Team Fortress 2 is before I decide on this one. Wish they would give us some kind of Demo to try out.

NUN-PUNCHER · 10-10-2007

Here's the IGN Review

IGN: The Orange Box Review

Looks like you get alot of bang for your buck with this.
I wasn't quite sure what was up with the expansions ( Story Wise ) being that I beat Half-Life 2 on the OG XBOX 2 years ago but now I get it.

I can't wait to see how the graphics and especially the sound effects hold up after 2 years. Half-Life 2 was one of the best games on the OG XboX

Team Fortress offers up 6 maps with 9 different playable characters, but has no Team Deathmatch.

I'd love to get this game, but my gaming time has been extremely limited these days.

OME6A · 10-10-2007

TF2 is mad fun, and classes are very balanced. However, graphics could be a bit for polished, and matches tend to lag when they have more than 6v6.

It's very basic, with 6 maps and a handful of modes like attack & defend and control points, which the game seems to choose at random.

Still, it's a lot of fun.

WarL0ck · 10-11-2007

I have have Half Life but why did the have to make a orange box with the same game?