Product Description

The Orange Box includes five innovative action games from Valve, the creators behind the blockbuster Half Life franchise.The Orange Box includes Half Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2, in addition to full versions of the award-winning Half Life 2 and Half Life 2: Episode One, for an engrossing first-person action experience.Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around him, from his surrounding environment to the behaviour, and even emotions, of both friends and foes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #589 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-12-14
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Features

• The Orange Box includes five innovative action games from Valve, the creators behind the blockbuster Half Life franchise
• The Orange Box includes Half Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2, in addition to full versions of the award-winning Half Life 2 and Half Life 2: Episode One, for an engrossing first-person action experience
• Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around him, from his surrounding environment to the behaviour, and even emotions, of both friends and foes

Customer Reviews

OK OK OK
I thought this game would be good and it is but... not really my thing, sure its great value for money with 5 separate features at a great price but the puzzle solving and the long complex ghoulish levels are a pain and very annoying at times. The game play i will say however is very entertaining and is darn good fun but can be repetitive.

best compilation of the best games ever made.
this game is so awesome because there is 5 of the best games on the market, the best being team fortress 2 which is a war game where you can choose from about 10 different classes, half life 2, episode 1 and episode 2 are all games where youre running around shooting either army men or zombies that are willing to tear your face off.
portal is a puzzle game where you are trying to escape from a scientific lab called apature science whith this crazy robot that is trying to murder you, as you go along it taunts and insults you by telling you that you murdered the companion cube which is a box with a heart on it and that you have no friends.

well thought out and atmospheric shooter
In response to the two critisisms made against this game.

1. Graphics. Half Life two looks dated compared to COD4 etc. Personally I enjoyed the older look of half life two and the interesting level design more than made up for this. Any frame rate issues were minimal and again outweighed by the superb gameplay. episode one and two have improved graphics.

2. Empty levels. The main game does have one or two levels where there is a feeling of a large space travelled between objectives, but this provides a sense of scale and atmosphere and personally I like a variety in the intensity of action. Episodes one and two are more concentrated which in a way is a shame.

I have been playing Orange box for weeks now and love it. It has maintaned my interest and I have a sense of having been on a journey. The sound is excellent, and the puzzels add interest and challenge. I temporarily got stuck in one or two areas , but solving these problems was a case of using my brain and being inventive rather than frustrating multiple attempts at shooting things. This game makes a refreshing change from mindless first person shooters and awful film tie ins that seem to flood the market. This is class. The only critisism is that the non player characters sometimes get in the way. very minor gripe.