The Orange Box or Warhawk?

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#1 rifton
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Yesah, I know. There's probably a topic around that's meant for this kind of thing, but which of these would you buy? I've never had the chance to play HL2 due to a s*** computer, TF2 looks pretty cool, and I thought Portal looked amazing since the first trailer. Warhawk is interesting, but since there's only multiplayer, and I'm a singleplayer kind of guy.

Basically the question is, "Does Orange Box have too many techinical issues to warrant not buying it?"

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#2 Generic_Dude
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Never played HL2? My God, there's so much suffering in the world.

Get Orange Box.

EDIT: I own both the 360 and PS3 editions of this game and the two are basically indistinguishable, apart from the PS3's lack of achievement points. I haven't experienced any frame rate issues, though some people say that it dips a bit during especially intense action, but they say it's rare.

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#3 rifton
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Thanks dude. I soo WANT Orange Box, but when I heard about the framerate issues, I was worried.
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#4 z3r0myst
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Orange Box ftw!
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#5 americahellyeah
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Orange Box is great, i haven't had any problems yet.
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#6 Steel_Rain777
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Orange box is awesome.

I experienced one instance where the framerate dropped( it was at the start of the boat level) it lasted for about 15 seconds. but other than that I havent seen anything(Portal and TF2 run fine as well)

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#7 kazanator
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yeah i had no problems with Orange Box, Get it now!! Although WH is pretty good
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#8 cooldust
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The orange box is amazing i have played TF2 52 hours alone about 9 hours on portal replaying all the levels over and over 10 hours on HL2 and yet 2 play episode 1 + 2 and i have only played Warhawk 15 hours since it came out
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#9 ScottEFresh
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Warhawk.
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#10 dstryr13
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Warhawk.ScottEFresh
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#11 pirategunner
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Although portal kicks ass, warhawk is my most played game. So I would say WARHAWK FTW!
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#12 wheezal
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The Orange Box is such a good value, you will actually feel wrong for owning it. HL Ep 2 (although i suggest playing HL1, HL2, and HL2 Ep 1 first, fantastic gaming experiences), TF2, and Portal are each incredible games. To put them into one package is no doubt the work of a diabolical madman bent on world domination.
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#13 beinss
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To be honest im trying to sell my orange box. I had it for a couple days and it just isnt too fun for me. It feels like your playing an old computer game (which you are) the only thing i like on it is portal.
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#14 chrissp7
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I got both and if you're looking for good multiplayer, get warhawk. Team fortress 2 is great but way less people play it and maps are picked by popular vote, which means that you get - no joke - literally every single one of the 11 or so total servers playing at a single map called 2fort, which is unfortunate because it's polished incredibly well and so fun. People just pick it because a) they only like 2fort, or b) they have no idea that theres a vote and just keep pressing X and vote for it because it is the first selection.

I hadn't played Half-life 2 either. It's long. It's like, 15-20 hours and you get episode one and two. Great singleplayer

Portal is great fun and so hilarious but it is short.

The orange box has tremendous value.

Warhawk is fun but it's sort of a pain for beginners and people who don't have shooter talent. This is because it's like rock paper scissors. Warhawk beats tank, tank beats turret and turret beats warhawk while the 4x4 stays the hell out of their way and carries the flag. It's also got some physics glitches that people have mastered in using against the enemy such as blocking someones path completely with a warhawk, and it's annoying. There's also people who must spend every moment of their lives throwing grenades perfectly at people and that gets on your nerves. You can avoid this mostly if you go to a lvl 1 server where most people are newbies in the boat as you. It's really fun though when you get the hang of gameplay. It's also 40 bucks which is nice.

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#15 nike_SB
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Never played HL2? My God, there's so much suffering in the world.

Get Orange Box.

EDIT: I own both the 360 and PS3 editions of this game and the two are basically indistinguishable, apart from the PS3's lack of achievement points. I haven't experienced any frame rate issues, though some people say that it dips a bit during especially intense action, but they say it's rare.

Generic_Dude


suffering indeed. the only time i had framerate issues was when i was going down the lift with alyx in the citadel, and had to use the grav gun to shoot back the falling debris. other than that, smooth as cake.