I know in the eyes of the media Valve can do no incorrect, but HL2 and the 2 Episodes are very dated harvest that just do not hold up in terms of gameplay. Compared to more recent releases like TimeShift and Halo 3, the graphics are dated and the action is rather stale. I am not sure what the hype here is about. Team Fortress is very hard to play online because you can’t find any sports meeting, Portico is just a puzzle that will take a few hours to complete and Episode 2 (the “new” make pleased) is just not that compelling from a gameplay or AI standpoint.
If you have never played HL2, I suggest grabbing it on the PC. They even released HL2 on the original Xbox – that should give you an thought of how ancient this product really is…
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this game used in late 2008. If you delight in moaning bloody zombies and spiders that try to jump on your face in a game that looks and plays like its from 1998, then this is your game.
Portico was pretty cool though not worth the price of the game alone.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’m not in the mood to get into a long-winded thing here, but I bought this game based on customer reviews and now I know that customer reviews don’t mean jack. This game does have 5 sports meeting in one, but they all suck. I bought this game for the portico game, the game I thought was the king of all 5 sports meeting. It’s not. It’s the lamest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s a bunch of rooms that randomly open and close, it’s a puzzle game. The other sports meeting are Half Life 1, 2 and 3, but they’re really all the same lame game. The 5th game isn’t playable unless you’re online, so I’ve never seen it work.
By the way I’m a 34 y/o dude from NYC. Call of Duty 4 and Tony Hawk Proving Ground are sports meeting worth buying. This one isn’t.
Rating: 2 / 5
I was going to buy this game based on all the excellent reviews it’s received. Fortunately, I rented it and was thoroughly unimpressed after about 4 hrs of play. Maybe I didn’t give it a chance. I didn’t play Half Life before so maybe that had something to do with it. The graphics are certainly dated. Portico was fun but I don’t know why anyone would replay it. COD4 set the bar for FPS’s so any shooter I play now is just so so.
This review comes from someone who wasn’t a huge Half-Life fan before the launch of the Orange Box, like most of the reviewers seem to be (not anything incorrect with that).
I’m a huge fan of Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, but I didn’t care for the Orange Box. Team Fortress 2 is like a cheap version of Halo on Xbox Live. Some people obviously like it, but after playing it for about an hour and a half one night, I chose to hang it up for excellent. I just found it lame and stupid I guess.
Portico was the best aspect of the Orange Box, but not anything spectacular. I spit on the Weighted Companion Cube! It was fun being creative in solving the puzzles for a while, but no reason alone to buy the game.
I have to say that I couldn’t care less about Half-Life. The levels are just long extensions of killing a certain type of lifeform (human or not) in a uniform environment over and over again. I’ve played Half-Life 2 and Episode Two each for about two and a half hours each, and had small to no fun. I especially found HL2 dumb because in the first couple hours you just make your way owing to a set of buildings killing the same exact type of guy. Not only that, but it takes about 5 headshots with a pistol to kill them. Anyway, I just skipped HL2 and Episode One because if I had any reason to keep the game, I figured that I’d find it in Episode Two. The graphics are better (though nowhere near Halo 3 or COD4) and it was just more of the same dull gameplay that HL2 had. For the first few hours, the character makes his way owing to a web of underground tunnels killing stout golden-haired spiders. It really isn’t fun.
If you’re a console gamer who is debating whether or not to get it, I’d rent it just to see if you like it. You’re likely to get caught up in the hype made by PC gamers, but the Half-Life series is the poor man’s Halo. Look for mine on Ebay…
Rating: 2 / 5
I know in the eyes of the media Valve can do no incorrect, but HL2 and the 2 Episodes are very dated harvest that just do not hold up in terms of gameplay. Compared to more recent releases like TimeShift and Halo 3, the graphics are dated and the action is rather stale. I am not sure what the hype here is about. Team Fortress is very hard to play online because you can’t find any sports meeting, Portico is just a puzzle that will take a few hours to complete and Episode 2 (the “new” make pleased) is just not that compelling from a gameplay or AI standpoint.
If you have never played HL2, I suggest grabbing it on the PC. They even released HL2 on the original Xbox – that should give you an thought of how ancient this product really is…
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this game used in late 2008. If you delight in moaning bloody zombies and spiders that try to jump on your face in a game that looks and plays like its from 1998, then this is your game.
Portico was pretty cool though not worth the price of the game alone.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’m not in the mood to get into a long-winded thing here, but I bought this game based on customer reviews and now I know that customer reviews don’t mean jack. This game does have 5 sports meeting in one, but they all suck. I bought this game for the portico game, the game I thought was the king of all 5 sports meeting. It’s not. It’s the lamest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s a bunch of rooms that randomly open and close, it’s a puzzle game. The other sports meeting are Half Life 1, 2 and 3, but they’re really all the same lame game. The 5th game isn’t playable unless you’re online, so I’ve never seen it work.
By the way I’m a 34 y/o dude from NYC. Call of Duty 4 and Tony Hawk Proving Ground are sports meeting worth buying. This one isn’t.
Rating: 2 / 5
I was going to buy this game based on all the excellent reviews it’s received. Fortunately, I rented it and was thoroughly unimpressed after about 4 hrs of play. Maybe I didn’t give it a chance. I didn’t play Half Life before so maybe that had something to do with it. The graphics are certainly dated. Portico was fun but I don’t know why anyone would replay it. COD4 set the bar for FPS’s so any shooter I play now is just so so.
Rating: 2 / 5
This review comes from someone who wasn’t a huge Half-Life fan before the launch of the Orange Box, like most of the reviewers seem to be (not anything incorrect with that).
I’m a huge fan of Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, but I didn’t care for the Orange Box. Team Fortress 2 is like a cheap version of Halo on Xbox Live. Some people obviously like it, but after playing it for about an hour and a half one night, I chose to hang it up for excellent. I just found it lame and stupid I guess.
Portico was the best aspect of the Orange Box, but not anything spectacular. I spit on the Weighted Companion Cube! It was fun being creative in solving the puzzles for a while, but no reason alone to buy the game.
I have to say that I couldn’t care less about Half-Life. The levels are just long extensions of killing a certain type of lifeform (human or not) in a uniform environment over and over again. I’ve played Half-Life 2 and Episode Two each for about two and a half hours each, and had small to no fun. I especially found HL2 dumb because in the first couple hours you just make your way owing to a set of buildings killing the same exact type of guy. Not only that, but it takes about 5 headshots with a pistol to kill them. Anyway, I just skipped HL2 and Episode One because if I had any reason to keep the game, I figured that I’d find it in Episode Two. The graphics are better (though nowhere near Halo 3 or COD4) and it was just more of the same dull gameplay that HL2 had. For the first few hours, the character makes his way owing to a web of underground tunnels killing stout golden-haired spiders. It really isn’t fun.
If you’re a console gamer who is debating whether or not to get it, I’d rent it just to see if you like it. You’re likely to get caught up in the hype made by PC gamers, but the Half-Life series is the poor man’s Halo. Look for mine on Ebay…
Rating: 2 / 5