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Best deal ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I would say this package is best deal you could get currently which contain 5 great games and actually I bought it to get Team Fortress 2, I dont know when I'll stop laughing during playing this funny game.

Half-life 2 and portal is just another great games and believe me, you wish you won't stop playing.

I would say this box highly recommended.

Best Game for 360

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

All five games in Orange Box were top notch. Their new game portal revolutionized games for 360 with its unique game play and advanced graphics. I beat all the games in about 20 hours of play, but I still play them. They are almost as good the second time around.

Great games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

So far I have only played Portal and Team Fortress 2, the reasons I bought The Orange Box. Both are a lot of fun. I love Portal and want to play more after finishing it. There are some levels that really had me stumped, but somehow I managed to get through all of them. I found the story line amusing as well.

TF2 is also a lot of fun, but I definitely struggle with the fast-paced action on that one. I have enjoyed learning the different character roles and want to keep playing.

I loved this one!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

All im gonna say is that the orange box is the best thing that has happened to me in a long time.

The Half Life series has left me in awe! Looks like I won't be touching any other game in a long time!

5 stars!

As close to perfect as you can get

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game! I would have thought that another Half Life would start to get stale, but I think they get better and better. Smoother than the original, and just as much, if not more fun.... and the new achievements are really fun. Not up to the "Little Rocket Man" Lawn Gnome one yet. Do a google search on "little rocket man" to see what I mean.
Also, kudos to Valve for coming up with a pretty non-intrusive way to do copy protection (after seeing that I would need to go through "activation" for Halo 2 I quickly uninstalled it from my hard drive.... I rebuild my PC at least once a year, and dont need the additional hassle).
The other games are great also, but I think HL2 episode 2 by itself would have been worth the cost.

Hard to judge the value of such a big collection of games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I remember when Half Life 2 came out, the collectors edition was like $90. Now I just purchased the Orange Box on sale for less than half that price. Even if you only enjoy one or two of the games in this collection it is worth the full price. There is no bad game in this collection. I don't know if I would have bought Portal if it hadn't come with the Orange Box, but it's one of the most fun games I've ever played. Half Life 2 and the two episodes represent some of the best single player action gaming in history. Team Fortress 2 I haven't played much, but it seems like a deep and well balanced multiplayer game. All in all, this collection is an obvious purchase for anyone who enjoys games, and it is an immediate "MUST BUY" if you haven't played many of Valve's games, because this represents the cream of the crop.

great!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great buy for all who are new to HL2 and those who already have it.

You get:

HL2: Which I believe is one the best games ever. Nothing more I can say that hasnt already been said.

HL2 Episode 1: Fast action and great graphics and gameplay. Not much more to say about this either.

HL2 Episode 2: Another fast paced and very intense game. The graphics still hold up and this expansion has less puzzle solving this time which I like alot better. Also, th final battle is very intense and very cool. Awesome soundtrack as always. Game keeps you on the edge of your seat. Also has a surprise ending.

Portal: What a little gem this is. This is a very cool game with great graphics and great puzzles to solve. The puzzles get harder and harder up to the last one which is very long and very challenging. Also a little comical and also has a surprise and cool Ending.

TF2: Instead of making this look like the old TF (which would have been like playing CS), they created 9 Pixar -like charcters to choose from. Excellent graphics and cool maps and there are so many new maps already out there that this game stays cool for along time. With 9 classes to choose from, you have many different ways you can play the game. Also keeps your best scores for each class. I love this game.

So if you haven't gotten any HL2 games, this is your chance to catch up and have at least 40+ hours of single-player gaming and countless hours on TF2. Happy gaming.

Orange Box - Insane Deal, Wonderful Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The whole notion of sticking all these games together for such an unbeatable price blows me away. Anyhow, as a whole the package, the price, and the games cause my rating to bump up to 5/5 stars but I'd like to break it down by game and review each of them shortly because it is a compilation game.

Half Life 2: 5/5
HL2 Episode 1: 3/5
HL2 Episode 2: 3/5
Team Fortress 2: 5/5
Portal: 5/5

Half Life 2:
The game picks up what seems to be 15 or so years after the original game. You have been dropped off in the middle of a conflict between an alien police force / totalitarian and the surviving humans. It seems that the aliens from the original game have returned as well (including the charming Alienesc face hugger ones).

There are plenty of weapons to use in the game and the games feel is much less restricted than the original. As mentioned in other reviews the vehicles can be annoying but I enjoyed those levels as well.

The multiplayer is interesting but I didn't find it anything worth mentioning further here.

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Half Life 2: Episode 1:
Continues shortly after Half Life 2. You lose all your weapons (since it's a stand alone game this is understandable but annoying) and your mission continues. The game wasn't anything special and while it did continue the story I would never have purchased the game if it wasn't included. It's rather short and there isn't much new.

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Half Life 2: Episode 2:
Just like Episode 1 you start off empty handed as well. It continues from the ending of Episode 1. I must admit this episode had some more interesting aspects to it but it too was somewhat repetitive. It also had the most annoying beginning of any game I've ever played. Who doesn't want to spend the first half of the game with only the gravity gun?

It does end in an interesting way and leads you to believe there will be a Half Life 3, however. I'm just hoping there isn't a Half Life 2: Episode 3 before then.

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Team Fortress 2:
Arguably one of the best multiplayer shooter games on the market right now. While there aren't many maps that come with the game the ones that do are fun to play and the plethora of classes to pick from keep the game interesting.

One of the only draw backs to the game would be just that there aren't many weapon choices once you do select a class. There's a melee weapon, your class weapon, and usually a weaker but more generic weapon (like a shot gun or a rifle). It does add to the strategy of the game though.

My only other complaint would be that for a game that so relies on team combat it requires a lot of work to join a clan. It would have been nice if there was some way to dynamically set a clan tag in your profile so you wouldn't have to actually change your steam login username to join one.

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Portal:
This game alone would have definitely been worth buying if you were given the choice let alone as a piece of such a great bundle.

The whole idea behind it is you are a test subject at a facility which is using you as a guinea pig to test out a new weapon. This weapon allows you to create a portal which you can use to move from wherever you set the opening portal to where you set the closing one. This is the only gun you get in the game.

I won't spoil much but the game somehow manages (through the genius of the developers no doubt) to use this premise to build an engaging atmosphere and storyline even into such a short game. It's puzzle game meets action shooter. And while it sounds very easy it can be pretty hard as you begin to think about all the possibilities of the portals (like making a portal under you, and one above you pointing out, jumping down and using your speed to propel you a distance).

The only draw back to this one is how short it is. You likely can finish this game in one sitting if you put enough time aside and pick up the general idea of how to use the portals quick enough.

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All in all this is a great collection and definitely worth the money. The HL2 episodes are rubbish but everything else is a definite add on to the compilation.

Orange you gonna' try it?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Orange box retail item is one of the best sets I've ever purchased. As far as first person shooters go, Half life 2 ranks among the finest Jam packed with action, realistic graphics and physics that you would think would bring any respectable machine to its knees, but actually it's easy on the system resources (My machine is over a year old without any major upgrades except a memory upgrade from 2 gb to 4 gb) I didn't need to scale anything down! This game has it all, an excellent plot, storyline, even a burgeoning under-the-table love story. Weapons are diverse and realistic looking, and actual gameplay leaves nothing to be desired from bifurcating zombies with circular saw blades, to disintegration via unstable fusion cores. If Half life 2 leaves you wanting more you have 2 extra "episodes" to play with; action, graphics, physics are all the same some extra characters are introduced all-in-all the other episodes are just as good as Half life 2 albeit not as long. If you're looking for some intellectual gameplay that tests your cognitive abilities look no further than Portal, a game that takes place in a strange lab that seems like nothing more than a testing arena but slowly reveals its sinister purpose. Team fortress 2 is also an excellent multiplayer game that is based on the half life engine.

Short, as in an hour and a half, and just a rip-off.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 24
Date: December 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I used to love the half-life series, but this is just a rip-off. Moreover, you have to pay for HL2 and episode one as well -- now we're talkin' Microsoft type rip-off. My advice: get a PS3, avoid valve and Electronic Arts -- they suck. This game was utterly boring and way too short. It might be worth about 5 bucks.

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