Darksaviour69 of dcemu.co.uk got his hands some details for the 5-in-1 Half Life 2 pack, "The Orange Box" and how it compares to its PC conterpart. Xbox 360 owners will get treated to Half Life 2, HL2: Episodes 1 and Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal. The PC's "Black Box" won't have Half Life 2 or HL2: Episode 1. Given that, it's not a bad deal for a standard priced Xbox 360 game. What we're curious about is how the Achievements will be divided up between the games. Will it be 200 Gamerscore per title, or 1000 each or what? Whatever the case may be, we're looking forward to hearing more as we await the winter 2007 release. While the art on the right doesn't look bad, albeit ordered oddly, we think this one is awesome.
Darksaviour69 of dcemu.co.uk got his hands some details for the 5-in-1 Half Life 2 pack, "The Orange Box" and how it compares to its PC conterpart. Xbox 360 owners will get treated to Half Life 2, HL2: Episodes 1 and Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal. The PC's "Black Box" won't have Half Life 2 or HL2: Episode 1. Given that, it's not a bad deal for a standard priced Xbox 360 game. What we're curious about is how the Achievements will be divided up between the games. Will it be 200 Gamerscore per title, or 1000 each or what? Whatever the case may be, we're looking forward to hearing more as we await the winter 2007 release. While the art on the right doesn't look bad, albeit ordered oddly, we think this one is awesome.
Reader Comments (15)
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 1:25PM (Unverified) said
Hasn't this already been reported a few weeks ago? The only 'news' for me was the Winter 2007 release date, which has made me a sad panda.
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 1:42PM kidwei said
that isn't the actual box art is it? that looks like somebody put it together with ms paint in less than 2 minutes..
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 2:02PM (Unverified) said
yeah thats the box art they supplyed, it does look crap ( thats the uk version, they also released a US version which is the same only with a US rating on it)
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 1:56PM sli7ha said
that would be so great if they all had 1000 gamerscore on each of the games.
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 2:09PM falcomadol said
Dunno, I could do without the Gordon getting tentacle raped on the back cover of the box in the link.
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 2:18PM (Unverified) said
Disgusting, IMO.
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 2:35PM (Unverified) said
I think they'll probably realise it in some kind of 'Special Edition' packaging, considering the number of discs we'll be getting.
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 2:46PM AoE said
Wait, is this half-life 2 or a mahjong game? The tax preparation software I picked up this weekend has a more exciting box.
That background would make a nice background for interior manual pages though, I'll give them that. What were/are they thinking?!
That background would make a nice background for interior manual pages though, I'll give them that. What were/are they thinking?!
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 3:48PM Sjohn said
Yeah I couldn't believe this was the official boxart at first but after checking with my contacts it sure is. Very odd choice but I guess they are going for the "it's what's inside that counts" approach. People that know the game will buy it, people that don't will look at it for the odd boxart compared to the rest. A bold move from EA? wow.
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 5:51PM mt1 said
wow worst box art ever....
they coulc at least put the games in the correct order HL2, HL2 :Ep1, ep2 etc
they coulc at least put the games in the correct order HL2, HL2 :Ep1, ep2 etc
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 4:51PM (Unverified) said
who cares about the friggin box art. the game is insane, i own it for PC and im definitely buying it for 360.
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 5:08PM KTXL said
I dig the box art. I'm just annoyed that this got pushed back again. Wasn't this a June release? That's valve, I guess. I think it's bad busienss to have TF2's release to compete with Halo 3.
As for the link: Due mostly to my coveted 49 gigs of highly-illegal tentacle pr0n, I quite liked it.
As for the link: Due mostly to my coveted 49 gigs of highly-illegal tentacle pr0n, I quite liked it.
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 6:26PM LetsHaveWaffles said
I don't care what the box looks like. It's what's inside that ugly box that counts. It's a steal with 5 games. :)
Posted: Feb 7th 2007 11:53PM (Unverified) said
As a graphic designer I despise that box art. I enjoy minimal design but that is a bad representation of it and it's pretty ugly. However, the games inside are a phenomenal deal, period.
Posted: Feb 8th 2007 7:12AM (Unverified) said
Garbage design. The jumbled order of games is infuriating. It should've just been an orange box with the big freakin' Half-Life 2 logo.
We'd get the idea, I think. This is just.. silly. If we want to know the games included, we look on the back!
Right next to that picture of Gordon getting tentacle raped.
And if each of these games has 1000 gamerscore... BITCHIN'!
But I doubt it. Which is going to suck, because the achievements are probably going to be pretty lame (Beat Chapter 1, 2, 3, Game, etc.)
Or pretty damn hard (kill 10,000 enemies without dying using the crowbar... WITH THE TV TURNED OFF)
We'd get the idea, I think. This is just.. silly. If we want to know the games included, we look on the back!
Right next to that picture of Gordon getting tentacle raped.
And if each of these games has 1000 gamerscore... BITCHIN'!
But I doubt it. Which is going to suck, because the achievements are probably going to be pretty lame (Beat Chapter 1, 2, 3, Game, etc.)
Or pretty damn hard (kill 10,000 enemies without dying using the crowbar... WITH THE TV TURNED OFF)
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