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Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (PC DVD)
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| List Price: | £14.99 |
| Price: | £11.97 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Delivery on orders over £5. Details |
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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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #519 in Computer & Video Games
- Brand: Electronic Arts
- Released on: 2007-10-19
- Platform: Windows XP
- Dimensions: .23 pounds
Customer Reviews
Superb Value, Great Games
First of all, don't listen to the people moaning about Steam. It's easy to use and as long as you've got better than dial-up internet you've got nothing to worry about.
OK, onto the games. You get the original Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2. 5 games for around £25! Bargain!
Half Life 2 is still, in my opinion, a great looking game and the good thing is you don't need a particularly high spec PC to play it. When I first played this I was blown away by the AI. Throwing bottles at security guards is particularly entertaining. The story is interesting and the main characters are surprisingly engaging; I actually cared what happened to them.
Episode 1 picks up right where Half Life 2 left off, and although quite short, is full of action and will keep you playing.
Episode 2 is relatively short too, but equally as fun. The forest environment is stunning and the action sequences are fantastic.
Portal is a quirky, original puzzle game, which although quite short is very re-playable.
Finally you have Team Fortress 2, a class-based multiplayer game. To be honest, I haven't really got into this. After reading a load of hype about it I thought I'd try it but I have to say it was quite dissapointing for me. Probably more suitable for online multiplayer fans.
Overall, The Orange Box is a must have for any gamer, and at such a cheap price, you can't go wrong.
Bloody germans...
Bought it in the UK, because the german version is censored... and what is a shooter without blood, hm? However, i liked it very much - even more than HL 1. What else is to say? 4 1/12 (lost coast is just a short level) games at a good price.
And the best is: even with shipping i spent less than if i had bought it in germany;-)
Read the rest for how good the game is but read mine and be warned!
This is an excellent game and I would highly recommend it. I would like to add a word of warning about this though.
The game installs through the steam network, for those of you that don''t know what this is it is an online system that means that you need to be connected to the internet to install the game, from all the reviews I have seen if this is mentioned then it is not made clearly enough for people, which is why I am giving the warning now.
Once the games have installed and you have waited for all five games to install to 100% then you don't for normal gameplay need to be logged onto the internet.
Once the games have installed then you can play as normal, I thought I would mention this though as if you haven't got an internet connection then unfortunately this game would be useless to you. It does mention this on the back of the box but in all honesty how many people scrutinise this before they buy a game.
Read the other reviews though for how good the actual games are.
