Shadow Conception
11-22-2007, 10:19 PM
In an interview earlier this year, Valve Software founder Gabe Newell referred to PlayStation 3 as "a waste of everybody's time." This attitude shows in the development structure of The Orange Box. While the PC and Xbox 360 versions were handled by Valve, the PS3 port was handed off to an internal team at EA. Originally scheduled to be released day and date with the PC and 360 versions, the PS3 Orange Box has been delayed until December. PS3 owners, forced to watch from the sidelines as their gaming kindred inundates them with tales of Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal, continue to wait patiently for their chance to take a stroll through Valve's universe.
After spending a significant amount of time with a near final version of the PS3 game, it's apparent that this version suffers from a number of technical flaws, which at best merely hinder game play and at worst make the experience downright unplayable. Framerate is a consistent issue throughout the Half-Life series of games included in The Orange Box. One moment you'll be cruising through the game at 30 frames per second and the next you'll be enjoying a slideshow of series protagonist Gordon Freeman cruising down the river. However, Portal suffers from no such technical hiccups and is on its way to being a pitch-perfect port of the spatial reasoning exercise. Due to a server connection issue, we were unable to get any time with Team Fortress 2.
With the clock ticking, EA has a limited amount of time to fix the glaring issues which plague this port of The Orange Box. Unfortunately, it seems that, once again, PlayStation 3 owners are doomed to suffer through another substandard version of a multiplatform game.
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3164539
Haha oh wow. It's not the final version, but just wow. I'm not surprised at all, whatsoever. These problems will probably make their way into the final version anyway. Leave it up to EA to screw PS3 up.
On a lighter note, I played Orange Box at a friend's house on his 360 yesterday. It was pretty cool, but the motion blur in HL2 looked awkward. I didn't really like it on a controller (or maybe it was just the 360 controller), so if I ever get it at all, it'd be for PC. Unless of course EA pulls a 180 and decides to actually take the PS3 seriously. But that's not likely, and Half Life feels weird on a controller.
After spending a significant amount of time with a near final version of the PS3 game, it's apparent that this version suffers from a number of technical flaws, which at best merely hinder game play and at worst make the experience downright unplayable. Framerate is a consistent issue throughout the Half-Life series of games included in The Orange Box. One moment you'll be cruising through the game at 30 frames per second and the next you'll be enjoying a slideshow of series protagonist Gordon Freeman cruising down the river. However, Portal suffers from no such technical hiccups and is on its way to being a pitch-perfect port of the spatial reasoning exercise. Due to a server connection issue, we were unable to get any time with Team Fortress 2.
With the clock ticking, EA has a limited amount of time to fix the glaring issues which plague this port of The Orange Box. Unfortunately, it seems that, once again, PlayStation 3 owners are doomed to suffer through another substandard version of a multiplatform game.
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3164539
Haha oh wow. It's not the final version, but just wow. I'm not surprised at all, whatsoever. These problems will probably make their way into the final version anyway. Leave it up to EA to screw PS3 up.
On a lighter note, I played Orange Box at a friend's house on his 360 yesterday. It was pretty cool, but the motion blur in HL2 looked awkward. I didn't really like it on a controller (or maybe it was just the 360 controller), so if I ever get it at all, it'd be for PC. Unless of course EA pulls a 180 and decides to actually take the PS3 seriously. But that's not likely, and Half Life feels weird on a controller.