It's still early, but Valve's bargain-of-the-year bundle The Orange Box looks like it could overtake two of the highest rated games ever on Metacritic: Halo 3 and BioShock.
The Xbox 360 version of The Orange Box (containing of the full versions of Half-Life 2 and Episodes One and Two, Team Fortress 2, and Portal) is currently ranked with a metascore of 98 out of 100 on Metacritic, topping Halo 3's 94 and BioShock's 96.
The only game currently topping The Orange Box on Metacritic is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, coming in at a 99 out of 100.
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11:27 AM on 10.11.2007
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I bought it last night and will play (and surely love) them all, but still. IT'S NOT ONE GAME! DON'T SCORE IT AS ONE! It's a package, sheesh.
I guess their reviewing the entire thing, I would prefer reviews of each game on their merits not a "OMG 5 GAMES IN ONE DISK" *fapfapfapfapfap* because there is no fucking way that a 2004 game with shitty vehicle sequences deserves anything better than a 7.
Guess what - 8 hours of single player hardly qualifies as anything near Epic.. and theres much better multiplayer FPS' out there.
For example - TF2.
You don't really understand the concept of Metacritic, do you?
It almost doesn't seem fair. 5 great games in one package? Should be illegal. Until I own a copy.
i'd give HL1 a 90 - it broke a lot of new ground and was the first good storyline in an FPS game maybe ever.
HL2 was an amazing demo for the physics engine, the story and game other than the graphics and physics bored the hell out of me
HL2 ep1 and ep2 are just more of the same. more hallways. more enemies. more walking and jumping and crawling. but nothing NEW.
portal is another great demo of a concept - but the "game" is a long tutorial, and 1 hour of escape that should have been 5 minutes. the final boss is cool though.
and tf2, another great idea (the stylized graphics) but they are already making it suck (limited server cvars, limited server filters) so that all the servers are exactly the same... and after 100 hours i'm so bored of it i don't want to play it any more.
how do these games score 9.5? i guess the numbers start at 8/10?
- Matt nod's head in approval.