Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (PC DVD) |
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Valve
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List Price: £14.99
Our Price: £12.65
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 5050053467393
Label: Valve
Manufacturer: Valve
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Valve
Release Date: 2007-10-19
Studio: Valve |
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Product Description
Contains: -
Half-Life 2 -
Half-Life 2: Episode One -
Half-Life 2: Episode Two -
Team Fortress 2 -
Portal Half Life 2: Episode Two the second chapter in Valves award-winning trilogy, taking gamers beyond the walls of City 17 for the first time. Portal A groundbreaking new kind of action game that will forever change the way gamers interact with their environment, much like Half Life 2s gravity gun rewrote the rules for how gamers manipulate in-game objects and use physics. Team Fortress 2 The long-awaited return of the legendary king of role-based online multiplayer games, Team Fortress 2 pushes the Source Engine to new heights with a daring new art style and deep multiplayer gameplay for nine distinct roles. Half-Life 2: The Orange Box Features: -
5 Games, One Box The Orange Box is the ultimate collection of innovative action games for the PC or console, and an amazing introduction to the Half Life series for console gamers. -
Epic Storyline Half Life 2: Episode Two takes gamers deeper into one of the best-known stories in gaming, following the desperate struggle of Gordon Freeman against the mysterious Combine. In this episode, gamers will leave the confines of City 17 for the first time.
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Great games, great value for money too, 2010-07-23
This game is everything it should be: fun, intruiging, as well as the wide variety to fit everyone. It is 5 games in one, making it fantastic value for money, as Half-Life two and Team Fortresss two are, in my opinion, worth this money on their own (as you can buy similar age games such as Battlefield two for similar money).
They do not give the impression of being old though, as Half-Life is comparable to the (relatively) new release of Fallout three in terms of graphics and gameplay and like Fallout with a rich storyline, albeit a bit smaller in terms of the game itself, lacking choices for your character. It makes up for this, in my opinion, in how it draws you into the world; clever techniques, such as the music and the scenery graphics give the real feeling of the plot and cleverly portray the totalitarian regieme in this game. Concerning the expansions, they are effectively standalone, increasing the games length and building on its plot, and they are as enjoyable as the game itself.
Team Fortress two and Portal are side events to Half-Life, with Portal's campaign lasting only a meagre two hours, but both these games provide a great distraction, a more soft-core option than Half-Life, and are both highly enjoyable - with Team Fortress especially being a huge game with many playing styles. The only problem I have found with the whole box is that the Portal campaign is a bit short (as i mentioned above) with the post campaign "Bonus mode", although extending the game play time, lacking some storyline detail.
A great package, with something everyone will like - if you are deciding weather to buy, my advice to you would be to buy - there are very few problems with these games. A wide variety, from RPG to action FPS to problem FPS, each game with its own enjoyable quirks.
 Great Games, 2010-06-10
the best thing about this game is that it will run on ANYTHING!! seriously if you hammered together an old washing machine some knitting needles and the back end of a robin reliant IT WOULD RUN HALF LIFE 2!!!! so if your pc or laptop has 'intel series integrated graphics' which it probably does unless you brave enough to tinker around and upgrade the graphics card which i for one am not, do not fear it runs really nicely and never crashes. Make sure you take care of your steam log-in info,this is the second time i have bought the game this time in the form of orange box due to steam account issues IF YOU INSTALL THE GAME ON A NEW PC AND FORGET YOUR OLD STEAM ACCOUNT DETAILS DON'T MAKE A NEW ACCOUNT OR EVERYTHING DIES!!!!BECAUSE STEAM THINK YOU ARE A E- CRIMINAL!!
Worth the money for Portal alone., 2010-08-21
Strictly speaking this box contains 5 of the best games every created. I now have the companion cube from Portal tattooed on my chest. Buy this and you will fall in love like I did. Portal 2 and Half Life 3 cannot come quick enough. I get as much enjoyment and play time from TF2 as I did when I first bought the game a year ago. Buy, play, enjoy.
PERFECT PURCHASE
My oh my, why didn't I buy this earlier..., 2010-08-27
The orange box, is in short, epic. The half life games have incredible level design, and puzzles slotted in with the action. It's pretty much the perfect single player fps. The updated source engine on episode 1 and 2 definitly shows with improved facial expressions. The storylines are immense, and you can definitly get a sense of character from everyone. All of the main characters have a personality, rather than the power armour covered, hyper-masculine characters from other games around.
But that is only half of the box!
Team Fortress 2 is, in short, fun :). I don't think I have ever had a more fun experience on an online fps before. There are 9 fixed classes, and you can customize them slightly, but valve have done a brilliant job making sure all of the classes are balanced, and there are NO overpowered or indeed underpowered guns like in certain other fps's around. I never played the original TF, but this does not deserve to sit behind Half life as an extra. No way.
Portal is also a fantastic game. My personal favourite game in the box. It will only give you about 3-5 hours gameplay, but that is ok in my opinion, so it does not stay longer than it's welcome. 3-5 hours gives you a load of portal based physics puzzles, yet still manages to keep a good storyline with the action. The ending of portal is one of the best endings to any game I have ever played.
You must buy this game. It's as cheap as chips now, you have no excuse. Put down that Halo or Modern Warfare or whatever else you may be playing, and buy this game.
Warning: huge update required, 2010-07-28
Bought this on 12 Mar 2010, I already have this box on PS3 (which is just GREAT) but thought it would be fun to have the PC edition too. After installation and registration with Steam I realized that the box require me to update the games before it allows me to play them, the total size of update is about 20 GB!!! Having an ADSL 256 KB/S connection this would take 8 days to complete :O I returned the CD to the box and forgot about it.
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