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Great Package, for a great price

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I mainly bought this for Team Fortress 2 and Portal. Both those games a lot of fun. Portal is really short, but the puzzles and humor are great. TF2 has some good gameplay, with some well rounded classes. Those new to the game, may find it a little difficult at first, at least I thought it was hard. I died a lot. But after playing a bunch, I got better and more used to the play style. As of now, I'm mainly playing as Scout, Soldier, and a little bit of the Engineer.
Half-Life 2 is also a lot of fun, although I haven't played the whole campaign, yet. Online Half-life 2 Deathmatch is really fun though.

Good and Bad

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As always, the half life franchise is great, but I have had a lot of trouble running HL 2 episode one and two. The games have caused inumerable crashes and hang ups during gameplay. I had to shut down every program on my computer in order to run. Never had this problem with Half Life until "Steam" became involved. Portal ran fine.

QUITE THE COMBO!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Love Half Life 2 and both of his expansions, but I want them to release the final one and be a complete and happy man!!
Love Portal
And Team Fortress it's really FUN!!

Incredible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is an incredible package. This includes five games for the price of one, basically.

-Half-Life 2
-Half-Life 2: Episode One
-Half-Life 2: Episode Two
-Portal
-Team Fortress 2

Each and every game included in here is amazing. Personally, I will not let any friends play HL2 until they have beaten the original game, which is the one bad thing about this box - original Half-Life is not included.

Nonetheless, Half-Life 2 is probably one of (if not THE) best sequels to a game ever - not to mention, the original still scores a 98/100 by Metascore.

Episode 1 is an excellent extension to the plot, though it is slightly short, but nothing unimpressive.

Episode 2, however, I felt was INCREDIBLE. The game, which also features many new features (such as the new particle engine), has such a deep and unfolding story line, with a stunning ending that will make it very hard to wait for Episode 3.

Portal, is also an amazing game. The challenges get harder and harder, but not too hard. I'm not going to reveal anything - but believe me, once you finish the "final" test, you're far from over.

Team Fortress 2 is a very, very well done multiplayer game - a great remake of the original Team Fortress Classic. The "cartoony" graphics are suprisingly very well done, and mixed well with the source-engine atmosphere. It really is very original.

So, I hope you take this VERY brief review into consideration, and purchase the Orange Box (if you haven't played original Half-Life, you must, to get the full story). Have fun!

4 games in one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Wow... Portal is a great game in it's own right although a little short, the other two games were good as well but I still have not had time to get to them all. TF2 is gust a great shooter...

killer!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

if ever there should be a movie made from a video game - this is it. Very immersive and fun with difficult challenges along the way.

A+++

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is the best purchase I have ever made. Team Fortress 2 alone is worth $50. Everything else is just a bonus.

BUY IT! :)

Awesome !!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Half Life 2, Episode 1 and 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2. All truly amazing games especially Portal and TF2.

I hope additional Portal maps come out and especially that grenades are available for TF2 at some point. It added flavor to TFC, it would benefit TF2 :D

Still, quite all amazing!

Excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was extremely hyped for this game and it exceeded all of my expectations. For the sake of you all I shall split this into sections based on the games inside.

Half life 2+ep1+ep2:This game is still visually stunning, the story is told very well, atmosphere is executed nicely. Not the game you will spend most of your time on once you get the orange box though.

Portal:The greatest puzzle game that I have ever played, GlaDOS is increasingly chilling as the game continues, and the atmosphere of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center is extremely creepy. You will spend a lot of time with this game.

Team Fortress 2:My favorite of The Orange Box, nice visuals without taxing my set up, online is virtually lag-free, VERY balanced, good community, very populated.

Overall, this game is worth the purchase, especially at the reduced prices available through amazon.

Gamer's Delight!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Fans of gaming will love this package! Included are Half-Life 2 episodes, a Team Fortress episode, a bit of unexpected fun in Peggle Extreme, and the brand-new, high-tech game, Portal. Installation includes a link and membership at the Steam site, where you can buy and download other games, play online, and have access to updates and news as it breaks.

Unfortunately, unless you own a well-equipped gaming computer, Portal may well be beyond your machine's capacity, a fact which I found annoying at the least since that game's premier was my sole reason for buying this package. The Box lost two stars in my book on that account. A clearer statement of that fact in the ad would have made me hold off till I was ready to upgrade to a gaming computer. The additional games are certainly worth the price, but since I'm not a Half-Life 2 player, I was only moderately interested in the advanced episodes.

Be sure before you buy that you check the specs and have the recommended video card in place (or a machine that can handle the upgrade and the tech skills to change a number of settings). For gamers hunkered over flaming Alienware units, GAME ON! The one screen of Portal I was able to manage on my secondary laptop proved it to be a fascinating combination of puzzle and action, just as billed.

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