The Orange Box gets 99 achievements, 1000 points
by Christopher Grant 
on Sep 12th 2007 4:03AM
Normally we're not that interested in the litany of Xbox 360 achievements uncovered by that community's strange, gaming junkies, but every once in a while something shiny grabs our attention and we become fixated on it. And so it was when we spotted the list of achievements for Valve's
The Orange Box, which answered some very obvious questions that (we're frankly embarassed to admit) we actually spent too much time wondrering ourselves. Questions like:
- If the retail disc has five games on it, how many achievement points can they dole out? 5000?
- Will the achievements be divided evenly amongst the offerings?
- Does Gabe Newell read our fan mail?
- (This one is more of a followup to that last one) Will he ever respond?
The list does answer two of those four questions with aplomb:
The Orange Box has the standard 1000 gamerscore points available to you spread out across a whopping 99 achievements –the
Half-Life titles get the lion's share of those achievements and, therefore, gamerscore points. As for the last two questions, we're guessing one of those eleven secret achievements contains a special message from Gabe
just for us.
