Monday, June 18, 2007

Half life two: The orange box preveiw

For those of you who beat Half life 2, don't worry. This orange box holds plenty more content. It's got portal,episode 1,episode 2, Team fortress 2, and not to mention an improved version of Half life 2. For those of you who are unacquainted with Half life, you can find some reviews of that game in my archives. In order to properly examine each of these game's, I will give each one it's own paragraph

Portal: Well, this game is certainly unique. it revolves around the concept of setting portals. Once a portal is dropped, you need to set another one. Anything that go's through the first one will emerge from the second one. And this concept, while deceptively simple, has many layers of complexity. While this game is a puzzler and is radically different then the rest of the Half lfie series, Valve has confirmed that the game will tie into the Half life plot.

Episode 1: While I have not experienced this game yet, I have heard positive things about it from many sources. It do's not seem to differ from the standard Half life formula much. And while this game is out(It's an expansion pack, I have not played it cause my computer is crammed full of !@#$) it will make it's first appearance on console with this release.

Episode 2: Not that much is know about this episode, but it seems that it will feature more antlions(crap,those sections were wicked hard) and more vechicles.

Team fortress 2: This seems to be the only game here that has nothing whatsoever to do with half life. It's a team based, battelfield style - fps. One of the most interesting things about this game is the art style. It proves that you don't need fancy shmancy hdr and hd effects to have kick a major amount of ass.

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