The Orange Box | Best game in years

The Orange Box | Doesn't get much better than Half Life

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The Orange Box

	The Orange Box Windows \| Electronic Arts, 2007 average customer review:based on 220 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

With part 3 of the Half-Life saga in the horizon, this collection brings you from the start so you're ready to take on the third episode of this exciting trilogy. Half Life earns its popularity and reputation at being the first First Person Shooter game to use aq lifelike, realtime plot that pits you in the action as well as behind the trigger. Created by Valve Software, each episode employs advanced technologies for better, more realistic play. In Half-Life, you assume the role of Dr. Gordon Freeman, a recently graduated theoretical physicist who must fight his way out of an underground research facility whose teleportation experimentations have gone awry. The second part of the trilogy of episodic expansions for Half-Life 2, Episode Two picks up where Episode One left off?with Gordon and Alyx traveling out of City 17 and into a vast new environment.
The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people people he cares about are counting on him. Intense, real-time gameplay of Half-Life 2 is made possible only by Source, Valve's new proprietary engine technology

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Best game in years

Dear reader, you need this game.

Do you need it for TF2? No, not really. TF2 is a fairly amusing online FPS, generally a worthy successor to Team Fortress for Quakeworld. But, really, I was tired of that game nearly a decade ago, and TF2 does little to rekindle my interest.

Do you need it for HL2? Maybe. I haven't even played it yet. I thought Half Life was a fairly decent PC game in its day, but nothing about the sequel (either episode!) has me excited. Still, it's nice that they give you this.

No, you do not need these things. The game you need is Portal, which is the best single player game in recent memory.

Setup - you're in a lab. You have a portal gun. You can create 2 portals - blue and orange - using this gun, and entering one portal will send you out the other portal (conserving any momentum you may have). You can stick these portals on many (but not all) surfaces throughout the game to progress through various experiments and traps.

That's it. That's the whole game. One gun. Two portals.

The concept is dead simple, but the puzzles can be deceptively complex. It's not rocket surgery, but sometimes you'll sit staring at a puzzle for a few seconds only to have a light go off in your head. When you're done, you have this moment of triumph, smugly thinking about how clever you just were.

Of course, you're not really the clever one here. Everybody who plays Portal feels the same way. Portal is the clever one.

Portal's smart simplicity goes beyond the gameplay, with an equally simple story that's told in a fascinating fashion. GladOS - your computerized captor - taunts you over the intercom the whole way, slowly revealing its psychopathic nature and ultimately pleading with you and promising you delicious cake. Even the end sequence is pure genius, as the credits roll in beautiful retro style, complete with the voice of GladOS taunting you in song.

Portal is not a long game. In fact, it's a really short game. But at $30, it makes the Orange Box the best value in gaming.

Buy it.

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Doesn't get much better than Half Life

I really enjoy playing the Half Life games. They really pull me into the game. I'm on the edge of my seat the whole time. And I find myself jumping every time a 'bad guy' creaps up on me and starts attacking (haha!). A lot of that emotion can be attributed to the soundtrack and acting.

As far as the other games, they're not bad...but I mainly bought this pack for the Half Lifes. It was still less than buying just those games separately.

Orange box

every game that it comes with is a great stand alone game, and to get them together for the price of one game is a realy great deal.

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A must have

This game is a must have for any FPS fan. Portal is awesome but very short. The only complaint I have is that I already owned HL2 and HL2 episode 1 and was forced to re-buy them with the Orange Box. You do get to give these extra copies to a friend, which I haven't done yet. Amazon was a lot cheaper than buying directly through Steam.

Great game!

This is a great game. It is also interactive, you can play wth other real people, and not have to pay for a monthly subscription to do so, unlike other games out there.
It is very addicting!!

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