Lest you missed the news on Joystiq, Valve is releasing Half-Life 2 for the 360. Not only that, but the game will be packaged with Episode One, Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, and Portal. In celebration of this momentous news, we bring you precious trailers for Team Fortress 2 and Portal.
Team Fortress 2 is, of course, the sequel to the original Team Fortress. You may view a trailer for it at Xboxyde. Portal, a first person puzzler in the vein of Lode Runner and Solomon's Key, may prove to be the most interesting of the bunch, and you can see a video of it embedded in this very post.
I have just one word: gimme. Anybody else excited for this massive package of gaming goodness?
Reader Comments (12)
Posted: Jul 19th 2006 3:10PM AoE said
Anyone who's not excited has got to be a little touched in the head... It's astounding how non-greedy Valve is being; much respect to them!
Posted: Jul 19th 2006 3:29PM (Unverified) said
Excited? Hell yeah! Team Fortress was one of my first hardcore online addictions. It was my first introduction to team play and capture the flag. And it killed many a semester of college for me.
Love the new look! It's like Pixar came in and kicked ass. The characters actually have character!
Of course I'll be getting this, but on my PC, not the 360. First person shooters belong on the PC, where they were born and raised.
Love the new look! It's like Pixar came in and kicked ass. The characters actually have character!
Of course I'll be getting this, but on my PC, not the 360. First person shooters belong on the PC, where they were born and raised.
Posted: Jul 19th 2006 3:35PM (Unverified) said
That looks friggin awesome. I'm so buying it. I agree with AoE. "Anyone who's not excited has got to be a little touched in the head"
Posted: Jul 19th 2006 3:41PM (Unverified) said
you said massive package
Posted: Jul 19th 2006 4:44PM (Unverified) said
Portal has me jumping for joy. It has always been a pet peeve for me when FPS games throw pointless little puzzles in games just to slow the pace. They are usually easy, boring, and poorly thought out.
Prey was a step in the right direction, but still a bit to linear.
Portal seems to be giving us something I have always hoped for. A FPS where the puzzles are the focus, they are well thought out, creative, and most importantly, from the video it seems like there is more than one way to solve each area. Kudos Valve!
Anyone feel the way I do, or do we always want to kill, kill, kill?
Prey was a step in the right direction, but still a bit to linear.
Portal seems to be giving us something I have always hoped for. A FPS where the puzzles are the focus, they are well thought out, creative, and most importantly, from the video it seems like there is more than one way to solve each area. Kudos Valve!
Anyone feel the way I do, or do we always want to kill, kill, kill?
Posted: Jul 19th 2006 5:48PM (Unverified) said
This is the sort of game that sells a lot of systems. With Half-Life 2, Gears of War, Call of Duty 3, Halo 3, Grand Theft Auto 4, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Lost Planet, Dead Rising, and SO MANY others, I AM SO HAPPY I BOUGHT THE XBOX 360!!!
Posted: Jul 19th 2006 5:53PM (Unverified) said
wow, i have not heard anything about portal yet but from the video it looks like it could be very interesting.
Posted: Jul 19th 2006 8:51PM djphatjive said
Is every game going to have a portal in it now?
Posted: Jul 19th 2006 9:01PM (Unverified) said
Yes, dyphatjive, every game is going to have a portal. Just think how easy Madden will be when i just shoot my portal gun at the endzone.
Why not ask more silly questions like "Does everygame have to have sound"?
Why not ask more silly questions like "Does everygame have to have sound"?
Posted: Jul 19th 2006 9:05PM stoneNboneCDXX said
They need to make an MMORPG of stargate with cool portals lol (shut up its a good show)
Posted: Jul 20th 2006 9:41AM (Unverified) said
I'm so glad this is coming to the 360. personaly i'd much prefer to play it on my pc (360 still aint got nothing on my gaming rig) but my freinds without pc's will get to see one of the greatest games ever made, the xbox version as good as it was wasnt a true reflection of the game it must have ran at 5fps. in the valve press release they say they're bringing out updated versions of half life 2 and episode 1, which hopefully means the upgrades to the source engine in episodes one and two will be intergrated into half life 2 which will be sweet and reason enough to play it through again.
team fortress 2 looks wicked, portal looks mind bending but damn cool.
Please Please Please include counter strike source thou, with proper server lists and user made content, if they fuck it up with matchmaking they'll fuck the whole game up.
team fortress 2 looks wicked, portal looks mind bending but damn cool.
Please Please Please include counter strike source thou, with proper server lists and user made content, if they fuck it up with matchmaking they'll fuck the whole game up.
Posted: Jul 20th 2006 8:34PM In A World said
Can you establish a new link between two portals while a previously created one already exists, thus allowing you to use them in conjunction? Or is that too much to ask?
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