Valve confirmed the release of the long awaited sequel to Shacknews.com. HL2: Episode II Orange Box shall ship for all announced platforms (PC, Xbox 360, and PS3) on October 9, 2007. The studio has been on the project ever since work finished on Episode One.
The community has been intertwined with its share of the excitement via regular previews on most gaming websites. The game continues on the saga of Gordon Freeman try to be the “freeing agent” for mankind from the insidious Combine invasion. Along with the stellar FPS trilogy, there are going to be two new games included TF2 and Portal, the former being a sequel to Team fortress classic, a great multi-player game that somehow faded in the shadows of Counter Strike and Unreal Tournament
The current game takes all forms of realism and goes to the Cel dimension to hopefully give us one of the most satisfying online experiences this year, the game has a lot to live upto especially after the failure of FASA’s Shadowrun and Battlefield 2142. The latter grips onto the newest toy on the block the “gravity gun” to create a puzzle based experience which shall take platforming to a new plane with a new perspective.
The time of launch stated is particularly dangerous, especially with Halo 3 launching a week before and GTA IV expecting to hit the shelves a week later, but we are talking about Half Life here, a game that ruled the planet years before even Master Chief was being conceived and I bet Niko Bellic has never fought an alien Invasion single handedly.
–Neelesh Mukherjee