Orange Box gets an Edge 10/10

[Warbie]

Not really sure if this is worth a thread, but still, :cheers:

It's a particularly good issue this month too - so check it out mofos

 

[Sparta]

What other games got reviews this month?

 

[Cormeh]

Aye - more info Warbie you nubcake D:

 

[Warbie]

Ratchet and Clank - 8/10
Folklore - 5/10
The Eye of Judgment - 4/10
Wipeout Pulse - 7/10
Clive Barker's Jericho - 5/10
Conan - 7/10
Race 07 - 7/10
Juiced 2 - 6/10
Monster Hunter Freedom 2 - 7/10
Pursuit Force - 6/10
Ace Combat 6 - 8/10
Dewy's Adventure - 6/10
My Sims - 6/10
Freshly-picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland - 6/10

previews:

Uncharted Drake's Fortune
MGS4
Ninja Gaiden 2
Devil May Cry 4
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword
Beowulf
The Bourne Conspiracy
Turok
Nights: Journey of Dreams
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Echodrome
Patapon
Oppoona
Wipeout HD
No More Heroes
Time Crisis 4
Space Invaders Extreme
Dark Sector
Rez HD
Toy Home
GT5

Time Extended - SF3: 3rd Strike
The Making Of ... - Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
TGS Article
Big PS3 report



Who's the nubcake now??!!!

 

[Dekstar]

I don't want the scans that you obviously can't get me using the scanner you don't have.

 

[Sparta]

I don't want the scans that you obviously can't get me using the scanner you don't have.

I don't want them either

 

[Xendance]

Nor me.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Scans

.

 

[Warbie]

No scanner

Go buy it you cheapskates.

 

[-Psy-]

No suprise really. The OB truly is the best game compilation ever.

 

[IchI]

Ye, I would happily agree with that 10/10 by EDGE. Thats only the 5th 10/10 they have given I believe. The others where Golden Eye, Mario 64, Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2.

I love EDGE, its a very critical mag and I like it how its very rare games get 8 or 9 out of 10.

 

[Warbie]

HL got a 9 actually (I would have given it a 10), as did Golden Eye (which they later suggested deserved a 10). Mario 64, Gran Turismo, OoT, HL2 all got 10s, as did two other games beginning with an H that, considering where we are, I won't mention

I agree about Edge - you could spend a week browsing 1up, IGN, Gamespot, eurogamer etc and not find 10th of the info. found in each issue. Reading Koji Aizawa's regular column, usually while on the crapper, is one of my nerdy highlights of the month.

 

[jimbo118]

lol, 5/10 for Jericho, pwnt!

 

[VictimOfScience]

The XBox 1 port of HL2 makes for <10 imho. Otherwise, bang-for-yer-buck value = 10.

Heh, Conan better than Jericho?? Egad. At most they should have both been 5s...:rolling:

 

[Warbie]

The Conan deo wasn't s bad. I'm pretty excited about Ace Combat 6. Comments like 'it feels like the game Namco has long been trying to make' and 'if you want more screenshots, just pop your head out the window and look up' are touching all my special places.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Too ****ing right.

 

[Asuka]

Whats new?

 

[jimbo118]

The Conan deo wasn't s bad. I'm pretty excited about Ace Combat 6. Comments like 'it feels like the game Namco has long been trying to make' and 'if you want more screenshots, just pop your head out the window and look up' are touching all my special places.

the new ace combat looks noice!

 

[kupocake]

Mario 64, Gran Turismo, OoT, HL2 all got 10s, as did two other games beginning with an H that, considering where we are, I won't mention

Pff. The Homeworld games were good, but i'd never give them a 10.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Halo. /is rugged and manly nuff to say it.

Good! It also outranked Halo 3 in EGM. Haha..
I prefer OB over Halo 3 any day.
But come on, I can have both!!
/cept my xbox is broken
/is sad cannot play AC6, cause of aforementioned xbox.

 

[Krynn72]

Bioshock got a 10/10 in GFW, which is pretty rare. Im curious to see what they give OB.

 

[simonjedi]

PCZONE gave ep 2 83%, portal 89% and TF2 92%

 

[kupocake]

Come to think of, isn't it rather unsurprising that Edge gave 10/10 to a game compilation that includes a game they already gave 10/10 to in the first place? Looking past the review scores for the Orange Box, which have been phenomenal, where the new parts of the package have been reviewed, the scores haven't really been the level of 'impressive' that Valve managed before going episodic.

 

[Warbie]

As with the Halo 3 review, the score was given for the whole package. HL2 is a few years old now and wouldn't get an Edge 10/10 now, neither would any of the other Orange Box components alone. It seems that oodles of quality entertainment qualifies for a 10 these days which, while fine with me (how could you not give Orange Box a 10?), is quite a departure from how they used to rate games.

 

[Krynn72]

As with the Halo 3 review, the score was given for the whole package. HL2 is a few years old now and wouldn't get an Edge 10/10 now, neither would any of the other Orange Box components alone. It seems that oodles of quality entertainment qualifies for a 10 these days which, while fine with me (how could you not give Orange Box a 10?), is quite a departure from how they used to rate games.

Yeah, it seems like it would be more consistent if they just reviewed each game individually rather than give the entire compilation one single score.

 

[Sparta]

Come to think of, isn't it rather unsurprising that Edge gave 10/10 to a game compilation that includes a game they already gave 10/10 to in the first place? Looking past the review scores for the Orange Box, which have been phenomenal, where the new parts of the package have been reviewed, the scores haven't really been the level of 'impressive' that Valve managed before going episodic.

To be fair, Valve only made two games before going episodic, and to my understanding they spent at least 3 years on Half-life and 5-6 years on Half-life 2.