The Orange Box....

[Gishank]

Right, i spent £44 on this at Game. And i must say i'm surprised by the graphics on Half-Life 2(None of the Episode Crap, yet... Seeming as they're sperate games), and the gameplay is just awesome....

I never actually bothered to ever play Half-Life, as i thought it was a really Shite game. Though, how wrong was i, this game is true pwnage.



One thing though, seeming as this doesn't come with Half-Life, can anyone enlighten me basically on what the Storyline is leading upto Half-Life 2, as i'm confused... The Combine? The Human Resistance? Weird Alien Things?


Someone enlighten me... =S

[Survive.]

I have HL2 on my Steam account, but honestly, that run on a nVidia GForce 2 is unlikely.

[Siva]

Google motherfucker, CAN YOU USE IT

[Kaiden]

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Storyline
The "resonance cascade", as witnessed by Gordon Freeman.
The "resonance cascade", as witnessed by Gordon Freeman.

Gordon Freeman rides a tram from his dormitory deep into the heart of the Black Mesa Facility, on his way to the Anomalous Materials Lab to begin his work. He arrives at the lab and has the front door opened by a security guard. Inside, Freeman learns that a computer systems failure has complicated communications between the Black Mesa scientists and that he must acquire his Hazardous Environment suit (or H.E.V suit) before proceeding to the test chamber, where he is to assist the more senior scientists with an experiment. Freeman reports to the Anomalous Materials Lab, where he is tasked with pushing a "specimen" into the scanning beam for analysis. Following that, he inadvertently causes a fictional time-space catastrophe called a "resonance cascade,"[12] opening a portal between Earth and a bizarre world called Xen.[13] Freeman is sporadically teleported there and catches glimpses of various alien lifeforms, shortly before blacking out.

Freeman awakens in the ruins of the Anomalous Materials lab and stumbles through the wreckage, strewn with the bodies of scientists and security personnel. After discovering survivors, Freeman learns communications with the outside world are down, and decides to gradually make his way to the surface for help, in the process sidestepping Black Mesa's structural damage and defending himself against hostile aliens randomly teleporting in from Xen. The survivors, including Eli Vance, initially claim that a rescue team will be arriving shortly, only to discover that the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit, which has taken control of Black Mesa, is killing both the aliens and the employees at Black Mesa as part of a government cover-up.[14] Freeman fights the soldiers before finally reaching the surface of Black Mesa, where he learns that the secretive Lambda Team may have the means to solve the problems brought on by the cascade. Gordon must then reach the Lambda Complex at the other end of the facility to assist them.

The player is subsequently faced with several tasks, such as killing a giant, rapidly growing tentacle creature,[15] riding across the facility on a railway system in order to reach a satellite rocket that must be launched in order to reverse the resonance cascade,[16] and fighting a group of mysterious Black Ops,[17] before being captured by Marines and dumped in a garbage compactor. In Half-Life: Blue Shift, the protagonist, Barney Calhoun, saw Gordon being captured by the marines. Gordon escapes without being crushed and makes his way to an older, secret part of the Facility where he discovers an extensive collection of specimens collected from Xen long before the resonance cascade.[18]

Gordon again reaches the surface, which has become a warzone. The Vortigaunts, along with Alien Grunts and a giant monstrosity, have begun fighting the Marines, who are beginning to lose. They call in reinforcements, but it isn't enough to turn the tide.[19] The player must scale cliffs and navigate bombed out buildings while avoiding both sides. Finally, Gordon reaches relative safety underground.

The Marines begin to evacuate Black Mesa and airstrikes begin. At one point, the player must use the military equipment to call an air strike to re-enter the base. Gordon navigates underground water channels and tries to avoid scores of alien soldiers as they pick off remaining Marine stragglers.[20] After much struggle, Gordon finally reaches the Lambda Complex, which is revealed to be the location where scientists developed the teleportation technology that allowed them to travel to Xen in the first place.[21] Gordon reaches the handful of surviving personnel, who are holed up in a small stronghold, and discovers that the satellite he launched failed to reverse the effects of the resonance cascade because an immensely powerful being on the other side of the rift is keeping it open. Gordon must kill this being to prevent the Xen aliens from taking over completely. The scientists activate the teleporter and Gordon is relocated to Xen.
Freeman on Xen.
Freeman on Xen.

On the strange border world, Gordon encounters many of the alien species[22] that had been brought into Black Mesa, as well as the remains of HEV-wearing researchers that came before him. The player engages in one of the game's few boss-style battles against Gonarch, a giant headcrab with a huge egg sac.[23] After fighting his way through an alien camp, Gordon arrives at a huge alien factory complex, which engineers and builds the Alien Grunt soldiers.[24] After fighting his way through mysterious levitating creatures, he finds a giant portal and enters it.

In a vast cave, Gordon finally confronts the Nihilanth, the creature who was maintaining the rift, and destroys it.[25] As the creature dies, it explodes in a giant green blast that overpowers Gordon's senses. After awakening, Gordon's movement is restricted as he is confronted by the G-Man. Both are transported to various locales around Xen, while the G-Man praises Freeman's actions in the border world. The G-Man explains that his "employers", believing that Gordon has "limitless potential", have authorized him to offer Freeman a job. The final teleportation takes the player to the original tram car, which is depicted as flying through space. If the player refuses the job offer, the G-Man teleports him to a location in front of a considerable number of alien enemies, stating, "No regrets, Mr. Freeman," as the screen fades out. If the player accepts, by stepping into a portal, he finds himself floating in nothingness and hears the G-Man's voice one last time: "Wisely done, Mr. Freeman. I will see you up ahead."

[Gishank]

Mmmkay

[Siva]

I'm sorry but I have to do this

i spent £44 on this at Game

[Gishank]

PS3 Version

[xProtocol Rain]

ps3 lol

[C18]

Orange Box is da bom.

[Psykorgasm]

ps3 lol

PS3...

[Dae]

The Orange Box with all stuff included, absolutely legal, in Russia costs 9.2 pounds. Envy us

[Baleout]

-_-
How can this be?

[Snakey]

PS3 Version

Is that why it says "PC" in the corner?

[VodunLoas]

He meant he has the PS3 version instead of the PC version.

[Gishank]

Indeed.


The reason why i buy all my newer Games on the PS3 you ask? Because my PC is absolutely shite and epicly fails at anything and everything i try to do on it.

[¤[A]Raiden¤]

ps3 lol

fu 360 lover, PS3 is the king of all!

[Kaiden]

Yeah that super mega computer never arived in the post I take it, get your money back?

[Gishank]

Already got the cash back.

I'm not spending it stupidly like that again lol

[Siva]

How can you buy a game on that which has no games?

Also

Enjoy your 16 player host-reliant Team Fortressan Games

[Gishank]

I couldn't care about Team-Fortress. Right now i'm too addicted to completing the Half Life's

[Siva]

I couldn't care about Team-Fortress.

RRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[C18]

TF2 sucks nads.

lmao @ the bitter PS3 fanboy. I love the PS3 framerates.

[Siva]

TF2 sucks nads.

MORE RAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEE

[ynnaD]

I like my PS3, i've never had any slowdown on any of the game's ive played on it

[C18]

I like my PS3, i've never had any slowdown on any of the game's ive played on it

I was on about that fag Raiden; is he like 14? Anyway, I was on about multi format games, and that on the PS3 counter parts they often have the choppiest FPS. Orange Box being one of them.

[Siva]

I wonder why that is considering the PS3 has the best processor.

Probably the architecture.

[Zantinzuken]

It's also a well known fact that the PS3 is a difficult platform to develop games on.

[Siva]

That's what I meant by the architecture.

[C18]

There's no doubt that sometime in the future the PS3 is going to a powerhaus. Just at the moment, its only superiority is on paper, in reality it has poor games that run just as poor.

I was looking around a few days ago, and came across a program that let you stream PC games through LAN to your PS3. They were talking about confusing your friends by playing Halo 2 on your PS3, anyone here done this? Or is it BS?

[xProtocol Rain]

ps3 lol

fu 360 lover, PS3 is the king of all!

*slaps the Haterade out of your hands*