Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #325 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-10-19
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: Xbox 360

Manufacturer's Description
Includes the original Half-Life 2, Episodes One and Two, Portal, and Team Fortress Two.

Customer Reviews

HL2 mixed reaction to a game that's looking its age
Half-life 2 (originally released on the pc in 2004) and the two add-on episodes.

1. Compared to the best games on the Xbox 360, HL2 is looking decidedly dated these days, both graphically and in the way the game plays. No more zombies please!
2. Because it is a PC game, Xbox 360 controller is at times clunky, especially when driving the car (the last level with the striders was dreadful to play and excruciatingly frustrating even on the easy setting!!).
3. Some of the levels are boring (I'm thinking of the dreary repetitive tunnel levels and so many levels with the very boring ant things and zombies and more zombies etc etc).
4. HL2 is just not as much fun as it was when I played it on the PC and the two add-on episodes add precious little innovation to the game, just more of the same. I'm sure Valve can create something new and exciting with their next HL game but they can't do what they did here and pass off another episode using the source engine as if it is as a new game - because it isn't, and years ago these extra episodes would have been given away free.


Portal

1. Short but very sweet and innovative pure puzzle game.
2. Again like HL2 it's looking old but plays very well.
3. Often very hard, not helped by the controller.

Team Fortress

1. The cartoon style suits the game. Very impressive looking.
2. Not many people seem to be playing it on Xbox live so a lot of the time I couldn't find a game.
3. When I did find a game it was very laggy (and other games I have play fine).

Conclusion
If you've already played HL2 on the PC then unless you get it cheaper than retail, it's not such a bargain. If gamers have moved onto other online games then Teamfortress, which has no bots, is a bit of a dud. Portal is great fun but short.

He's back and he's got a new trick
HI all.

Now i was more in for buying The Orange Box (it will now be called TOB, because im lazy) on the computer, but due to already being brought to the brink of throwing my computer out of the window after useing 'steam' on it i decided to go for the safe option.

Firstly i could not belive what i got with the game, Half life 2, Half life 2 EP 1, EP2, TF2 AND Portal!! wow, amazing value for money (il be a wise trader yet!, 50 points to ANYONE who knows what game thats from, remember points make....errrrm prizes?)

anyway, half-life 2 is just as i rememberd playing it on *shudders* steam. Fun, Long and a great story-line, but the real issue is when i got to EP 1, it is short, boring and overly annoying.
but thankfully, EP 2 saved it!

i mean, HOW CAN YOU HATE A GAME THAT LETS YOU SEND A GNOME INTO SPACE!? i loved that part, i did it for the pure enjoyment of carrying a small smiling garden gnome into battle with me, seeing that smiling face reminded me WHY i was playing this game, and whenever i felt beaten or fed-up that little face cheered me right up! we went in a car together...we went through an ant-lion infested cave together...we went through alot.

EP 2 is a little odd, being the middle child and all of the episodes, all that was annoying was the fact that a new person was introduced into the game (DR Magnisen? i think you spell it) and everyone act's like we all know him, it was a little daunting at first when i was paniking thinking "ahhhhhh i missed out some VITAL storypoint in EP1 OR HALF LIFE 2!!!" untill i found out he is just some guy they through in to get on my nerves.

Team Fortress 2 is really fun! it cartoony like graphics make it near impossible to get mad or fed-up while playing it, it's week point maybe it choice of maps but the maps they do have are VERY FUN and highly addictive not like a certain other game *cough* halo 3 *cough*. the classes you can play as range from the crafty spy to the big heavy gunner, it's fun for anytype of player from the people who enjoy large guns to people who enjoy a more subtle choice.

Portal is a uniquely amazing game with nice mind games that range from easy to "how the ---- do i do that!?" and the robot voice never ceseces to make you giggle with her witty and odd remarks, (party, anyone?)
all in all this game rocks, and i dare anyone to reply saying they dident feel sorry for your *sniff* companion cube....
oh and if that dosent rock your boat, then theres CAKE and a really catchy song at the end of the game....

apature science, we do what we must because we can.

---Gtag is "wierd carrot" add me if you want. little rocket man owner and happy he's in a better place.

write to me meldo...where ever you are.....i miss you

not that great
It may seem your getting value for money with this game but bear in mind half life 2 is pretty old, the other 2 episodes are short and portal is about 3 hours long. It seemed like a chore playing the games, it just was not any fun and I soon got rid of it.
When I first played half life 2 on pc I really enjoyed it but now it seems dated. You're tunnelled along a set route for the most part and it's enemy pops up bang, another one, bang. It's like a shooting gallery and so predictable. There are so many better games out there, more worthy of your cash.