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The Orange Box
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The Orange Box features three highly-awaited new games by Valve: Half-Life® 2: Episode Two, the second installment in the Half-Life 2 episodic trilogy; Team Fortress® 2, the sequel to the game that put class-based, multiplayer team warfare on the ...
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04-02-08 Review for Xbox 360
Latest news
02-04-08 EA chops Orange Box to pieces
12-11-07 Orange Box inferior on PS3
11-22-07 Orange Box Demo on Xbox Live
09-12-07 The Orange Box gets 99 achievements
06-21-07 Big summer update for Steam
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Team Fortress 2, Portal game all included in HL2: Episode 2
On an EA event yesterday Gabe Newell has revealed a lot of new tidbits about Half-Life 2: Episode 2. He explained that Valve likes doing the episodic thing and that we're in for a surprise for the next HL2 episode.
First, the new episode itself will contain more open environments, new enemies and new weapons. This was already known. But the real news is that Source will be updated with all kinds of new stuff (soft particles, better foliage) and the most important one being a "cinematic physics" system, made by Gray Horsfield, who is coming from Weta Digital.
Next to the new story-based HL2 continuation there will also be a seperate Portal game included. It takes the concept of Prey further with a portal gun which gives the player the ability to 'shoot' portals in floors, wall etc. in order to teleport yourself or solve puzzles. One can say that this 'create your own portals'-concept was already an idea for the multiplayer of the original Prey, years back. According to a post on VoodooExtreme Valve has apparently hired some experts in this field:
Alright, a wacky portal game comes with Episode 2, what's next? TEAM FORTRESS 2!
Gone in the mists of mysteriously lost projects for several years now, Valve wants to ship it with Episode 2. Of course, it ain't the game we used to know. Gamespot describes it as follows:
They at least got the message that the multiplayer of Episode 1 was way too weak. With all this content it remains to be seen if Episode 2 sticks to the same pricepoint as Episode 1.
And oh yes, for the next-gen console freaks: Half-Life 2: Episode 2 will be available for Xbox 360 and PS3 (both versions will be released at the same time as the PC version) with ALL the previous HL2 content (HL2, Episode 1, HL2 Deathmatch) in addition to what people get with the PC version. Although there is still some doubt whether TF2, Portal and CS: Source will make it into these next-gen versions.
A release date for these goodies? Co-publisher/distributor EA still targets it for the end of this year but we won't be surprised if it gets delayed.
First, the new episode itself will contain more open environments, new enemies and new weapons. This was already known. But the real news is that Source will be updated with all kinds of new stuff (soft particles, better foliage) and the most important one being a "cinematic physics" system, made by Gray Horsfield, who is coming from Weta Digital.
Next to the new story-based HL2 continuation there will also be a seperate Portal game included. It takes the concept of Prey further with a portal gun which gives the player the ability to 'shoot' portals in floors, wall etc. in order to teleport yourself or solve puzzles. One can say that this 'create your own portals'-concept was already an idea for the multiplayer of the original Prey, years back. According to a post on VoodooExtreme Valve has apparently hired some experts in this field:
Valve hired a group of developers (nuclear monkey software: www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com)who had made a game called Narbacular Drop(released on April 22, 2005), where a princess (princess Noknees) shot portals at walls. It's debatable whether this game was inspired by Prey(since it's been in development forever), but it came out at least a year before Prey, and the entire team is working at Valve, so this seems to show how the idea came about.
Alright, a wacky portal game comes with Episode 2, what's next? TEAM FORTRESS 2!
Gone in the mists of mysteriously lost projects for several years now, Valve wants to ship it with Episode 2. Of course, it ain't the game we used to know. Gamespot describes it as follows:
It's got a totally exaggerated, crazy art style now. Looks a little like Spy vs. Spy or No One Lives Forever, kind of a '60s spy feel. It's going to be the included multiplayer mode in Episode 2! Class-based, etc. You know the drill. Great news for shooter fans. We all thought this game was dead years ago.
They at least got the message that the multiplayer of Episode 1 was way too weak. With all this content it remains to be seen if Episode 2 sticks to the same pricepoint as Episode 1.
And oh yes, for the next-gen console freaks: Half-Life 2: Episode 2 will be available for Xbox 360 and PS3 (both versions will be released at the same time as the PC version) with ALL the previous HL2 content (HL2, Episode 1, HL2 Deathmatch) in addition to what people get with the PC version. Although there is still some doubt whether TF2, Portal and CS: Source will make it into these next-gen versions.
A release date for these goodies? Co-publisher/distributor EA still targets it for the end of this year but we won't be surprised if it gets delayed.
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Parallax
The Portal technology is courtesy of Prey, not Narbacular Drop or any other game. The original Portal technology was in fact developed back in around 1996 for the original Prey. Those guys who did this was brought on to Prey to help them developing it.
I think TF2 has been kind of overhyped over the years, much like Duke Nukem Forever, but we'll see.