The Orange Box [Half-Life 2] [X360]

Half Life 2: The Orange Box Interview

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What is it?

Half-Life 2 was one of the most acclaimed and successful PC games of 2004, and while it was ported to the Xbox in 2005, the performance struggled on that last generation system. Now Valve's bringing the entire thing to the Xbox 360, where it has more than enough power to run. Half-Life 2 continues the adventures of series hero Gordon Freeman, and you won't need to have played the original Half-Life in order to understand what's going on. That's probably a good thing, since Half-Life shipped in 1998, and its dated graphics might make it difficult for newer gamers to get into.

Basically, to sum it up, Freeman was a junior scientist at the government's top secret Black Mesa research facility when he, as part of an experiment, somehow opens a dimensional portal that unleashes an alien invasion. Freeman manages to defeat the alien invaders, but then is 'recruited' by the mysterious G-Man. The end. Half-Life 2 picks up sometime afterward the events in Half-Life, and Freeman's efforts in the first game were for naught, as the alien Combine have conquered Earth and herded the remaining human survivors into urban centers. We won't get into the story spoilers of Half-Life 2, so you can discover the mix of action and puzzle solving that makes the series great.

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