AboutHelen Joan Casper Expertise Ever since I played "Pong" in the early 80's, I've been a video game aficionado. I can answer hardware & games questions about PSP (PlayStation Portable), all PlayStation (1,2,& 3), Wii, Wii Fit, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Nintendo (NES), Super Nintendo, Gameboy/Gameboy Advance, and antiquated systems (ColecoVision, Atari, Sega, etc). I can answer hardware questions about all systems (including PS1 - PS3, Wii, NES, SNES, PSP, DS, GBA, GB, Xbox and Xbox 360). I can also answer PC game questions, especially CounterStrike: Source, Vampire: Bloodlines, Half-Life 1&2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, and all Sims & Sims 2 questions. I am ESPECIALLY knowledgeable in Square-Enix (formerly SquareSoft) games such as ALL the Final Fantasy games (I can even tell you really obscure things about these games). If I haven't played the game yet I will research it and help you find the answer, renting the game if necessary. I can even answer questions dealing with the consoles themselves (hardware questions).
I cannot answer questions about Action Replay. I cannot answer questions about football, basketball, or wrestling sports games. I also have very limited knowledge about Xbox & Xbox 360 games unless they are cross-platform. If it is an independent game that has not been widely published and/or a game only released in some countries, I may not be able to help with it either (sadly!)
Experience I am also an expert here in games/roleplaying games, weddings, childbirth, and doulas. My husband is a computer programmer and one of the forefront coders for CounterStrike: Source scripts & mods. He has his own forums for coders/scripters at Mattie.Info. I have been an expert here since 2000 (under the name of Helen Chipman) and also volunteer on numerous other game-related websites and forums.
Question QUESTION: Hi I recently bought the Orange Box and would like to know if you can have more than one local player on Team Fortress 2. If you can how can you make it to where two players can play?
ANSWER: No, Orange Box is single-player only on the console itself. You connect it to the internet and can play with 16 other players on a server. If you have 2 or more Xboxes, PS3s, or PCs in the same house, you can play them together. However, Xbox players cannot play on servers with PC players or PS3 players. My husband and I both have Steam accounts, both have had to purchase the game separately (one for each account), and regularly play TF2 together- even though our computers are literally less than 2 feet apart. ;)
One game per player, one console/PC per player. However, multiple players can play together on a server and can use the same internet connection via a router.
Please let me know if I can help you further or with anything else.
Best wishes,
Helen =)
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QUESTION: I mean like playing Team Fortress 2 online for the PS3. Is there any way that you can have the local players because for alot of my other games you can have more local players.
Thanks
Answer No, it's one person per console essentially. So if you and your buddy were hanging out at your house, you two would have to take turns playing online with other people. If your buddy brought his PS3 over to your house, then you two could play together, get on the same server, and have the same internet connection. There isn't a local multiplayer mode for either Xbox 360 or PS3.
