1st week of sales according to VGC is 348,000! So it has almost surpassed its OCT Future prediction in week 1... Even with a significant degree of VGC error, it's well on its way to easily besting our OCT prediction. As I posted on Sunday I went to 2 stores looking for this game and it was sold out, and I've seen others post online it was sold out when they tried to get it. I say buy buy buy!
@Workwork, Well - I agree 2M seems a lot. But I think we are betting on the value-for-maney here and not for the novelty # originality. This kind of product is quite unique actually. Very hard to guess as there is no real benchmark.
@welshbloke, I agree that the Metacritic future will stay relatively strong, but I am growing concerned over the stock price. An aged port can get high review scores, but 2 million sales? I do know this is one of the best selling PC games ever, but long delayed ports only go so far as many people have played it. How far does the Half-Life franchise extend into the console market anyways? Most HL players would not be a fan of console FPS.
This is a tough one for the metacritic, obviously currently it is riding high at 98% with 11 reviews. I am not sure it will be reviewed as extensively as Bioshock which is in the 70s and still hanging onto 96%.
Looking at the PC format it to is doing well at 97% with fewer reviews but more suprising is that Team Fortress 2 as it can be purchased seperately on the PC format has an independent review of 94%.
I am beginning to think this box set is going to out do Bioshock probably settling at 97% very impressive indeed for a box set with a (albeit genre defining) 4 year old game at its heart.
I think CS was never the correct vehicle for the Console market. It is damned hard and requires the reactions of a jedi knight.
I think the key to the success will be convincing those who have invested in the orginal Xbox version of HL2 that it is work doing so again. I think they have done that and TF2 alone for me would be a worth addition to the console fraternity for its fun gameplay alone and them couple that with the two new episodes for HL2 and improved graphics and you have a winner. I have deliberately not mentioned Portal as that really is an unknown and tbh I looks to have a limited appeal but we must wait and see.
I am now debating whether to buy this game again for my 360 having already pre purchased on the PC primarily for the TF2 aspect. I will probably play the single player episodes on the 360 curled up on the sofa. Damned 360 is pullilng at my wallet in all directions though at the moment.
@Jesse2050, I think this game is going to do very well, its a great value with 5 games, with the marketing muscle of EA behind it. Counter-strike for xbox got so-so reviews. I can see HL2OB getting great reviews because it contains both brand new content and most of the games are not nearly as old as CS was when it released on Xbox.
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I played Half Life 2 on the X-Box and I was surprised by how well dual analog control worked for this game (huge fan of Half Life on PC). To me, the best selling features for the original Half Life were the AMAZING mods (Team Fortress, Counter Strike) that were basically free once you had the game. Packing in TF2 could help for this game.
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