The goal of each puzzle is to reach an exit point, represented by an elevator. The "portal gun" and the unusual physics it creates are the emphasis of this game.
Team Fortress 2 is an online multiplayer team-based first-person shooter developed by Valve Software and is one of the games included in Valve's Orange Box which was released on October 10, It was released on a standalone package on April 9, Console versions of the game, however, only include updates prior to this game's first major update due to developer restrictions by Microsoft and PS3 issues. Valve planned on releasing an additional compilation for Windows entitled The Black Box , which would have contained only the new material— Episode Two , Portal , and Team Fortress 2.
The Black Box was later canceled for retail and is now only available through Steam exclusively to owners of certain ATI graphics cards, who received a voucher for a free copy of The Black Box. During development, the simultaneous release of two game compilation packages with different content combinations was touted by Valve as a new direction for the game industry. Gabe Newell , co-founder of Valve, said, " The Black Box and The Orange Box represent a new approach to publishing multiple products on multiple platforms.
Valve said this was mainly due to pressure from EA forced them to keep on schedule, as those levels were never finished before its release. Valve intended on releasing these levels later on, as downloadable content, but this remains to be seen. To compensate for the cancellation of The Black Box , Valve offered gift subscriptions to Steam users who had previously purchased Half-Life 2 or Half-Life 2: Episode One and then purchased The Orange Box so that they could give their second copies of those two games as gifts to people added to their Steam Friends list.
Still, the cancellation of The Black Box sparked complaints from game critics and consumers alike, unhappy that they were obliged to pay for games that they already owned. While Valve never expressed its reasons for this decision, industry writers speculated that it might have been to increase profits on retail copies or to avoid customer confusion between similar game packages and their availability across the platforms. In an interview with Edge Magazine before the game's release, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell commented, "I think the people who have The Orange Box on the PS3 are going to be happy with their game experience.
But I think it's harder to get it to the same standard as the and PC versions". Despite this, he noted that Valve will probably handle PlayStation 3 versions of its products in the future. On January 3, , IGN reported that Valve employees had created a thread on Valve's website forums for players to list the problems they had encountered and to suggest fixes, which caused speculation that a patch was being planned to address the issues in the PlayStation 3 version, such as the frame rate issues, the connection problems in Team Fortress 2 , and the slow loading times in Portal.
A patch for the PlayStation 3 version was later released in North America on March 19, , and Europe a short while after that; however, it made no mention of fixing frame rate issues or slow loading times. It is also one of the only PlayStation games not to have trophies. Valve deactivated accounts with CD keys that were purchased outside of the consumer's territory in order to maintain the integrity of region-specific licensing. This generated complaints from North American customers who had circumvented their Steam end-user license agreement by purchasing The Orange Box through cheaper, Asian retailers.
Some customers who then purchased the game a second time from a local vendor experienced difficulty adding the new CD key to their accounts in order to activate their newly-purchased games and also had trouble communicating with Steam's customer support team about this problem. Doug Lombardi of Valve stated, "Some of these users have subsequently purchased a legal copy after realizing the issue and were having difficulty removing the illegitimate keys from their Steam accounts.
Anyone having this problem should contact Steam Support to have the Thai key removed from their Steam account. The German version of The Orange Box is set to a low violence mode in order to comply with German laws regulating the sale of violent video games.
Blood effects are replaced by sparks and bullet wounds are replaced with dents as if the characters were metal robots. Additionally, in Team Fortress 2 , instead of body parts being scattered after a player's character is blown apart, various items such as hamburgers, coils, rubber ducks, and chattery teeth appear. Characters from different classes leave different items and different ratios of these items when killed by explosives.
In the Half-Life games, bodies fade away after the death of non-player characters and the blood has been altered to a grey color. Pre-purchasing of the Windows version on Steam began on September 11, Those who pre-purchased via this method received a ten-percent discount and were able to play the Team Fortress 2 beta starting on September 17, Peggle , published by PopCap Games , is a puzzle game combining elements of pinball and pachinko.
The Orange Box for the Xbox has the most achievements of any Xbox game with 99 of them. However, it has only available gamerscore, whereas Gears of War 3 has the most gamerscore in a single game with Cheats in Team Fortress 2 are only possible on the PC version through the use of developer console commands.
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