Jonneh3003
Banned
Back in 2007 I refused to play Valve games on anything but a PC. No idea why, it's very closed minded looking back on it. So in light of Half Life 3's story being shared with the world I had a huge itch to play through Half Life 2 again. Only problem is my desktop has been having some issues so I decided to pick up a cheap £5 copy of The Orange Box on Xbox 360. It's a really great port.
I want to go back in time and slap my past self for throwing shade on this version of the game because in reality these are all the same games and they're still just as fun regardless of what you choose to play them on. I just wrapped up Half Life 2 and it's such a tremendous ride. The visuals still wow me to this day and the game works surprisingly well with a controller - it can be a bit tricky sometimes to select a specific weapon in the heat of battle but it's about as good as it can be.
I can't speak for how Episode 1 and 2 runs in this port but from beginning to end Half Life 2 feels flawless. There's only been a few noticeable frame rate drops and none of them were at times that disturbed the flow of the game. Half Life 2 hasn't aged a day and if anything it puts a lot of modern shooters to shame. I can't think of a single other shooter that captures the same feeling of adventure and survival. There is so much to reflect on with Half Life 2. City 17, the air boat, Ravenholm, the antlions...there's never a dull moment.
I dipped into Team Fortress 2 a little bit but couldn't find a game at the time. I suppose this is the lower part of the collection as obviously TF2 has become something entirely different on PC. Still, it's cool to see the game in its vanilla state.
Really I just want to say that this is a fantastic port and it reminded me why we spent 10 years begging for Half Life 3. Half Life 2 is just so good. It's one of the best games ever made and this is an incredible way to play it.
I want to go back in time and slap my past self for throwing shade on this version of the game because in reality these are all the same games and they're still just as fun regardless of what you choose to play them on. I just wrapped up Half Life 2 and it's such a tremendous ride. The visuals still wow me to this day and the game works surprisingly well with a controller - it can be a bit tricky sometimes to select a specific weapon in the heat of battle but it's about as good as it can be.
I can't speak for how Episode 1 and 2 runs in this port but from beginning to end Half Life 2 feels flawless. There's only been a few noticeable frame rate drops and none of them were at times that disturbed the flow of the game. Half Life 2 hasn't aged a day and if anything it puts a lot of modern shooters to shame. I can't think of a single other shooter that captures the same feeling of adventure and survival. There is so much to reflect on with Half Life 2. City 17, the air boat, Ravenholm, the antlions...there's never a dull moment.
I dipped into Team Fortress 2 a little bit but couldn't find a game at the time. I suppose this is the lower part of the collection as obviously TF2 has become something entirely different on PC. Still, it's cool to see the game in its vanilla state.
Really I just want to say that this is a fantastic port and it reminded me why we spent 10 years begging for Half Life 3. Half Life 2 is just so good. It's one of the best games ever made and this is an incredible way to play it.
). At least we now know how it ends which was the whole reason I picked up the 360 version of Orange Box! These games are still tremendous no matter what system you play them on.