The Orange Box | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $29.88
You Save: $10.11 (25%)
New (25) Used (3) from $25.99
Rating:  203 reviews
Sales Rank: 121
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Genre: Shooter Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.1
MPN: 09852
UPC: 014633098525
EAN: 0014633098525
ASIN: B000PS2XES
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Characters - Advanced facial animation system delivers the most sophisticated in-game characters ever seen. With 40 distinct facial muscles, human characters convey the full array of human emotion, and respond to the player with fluidity and intelligence | | • | Physics - From pebbles to water to 2-ton trucks respond as expected, as they obey the laws of mass, friction, gravity, and buoyancy | | • | Graphics - Source's shader-based renderer, like the one used at Pixar to create movies such as Toy Story and Monster's, Inc., creates the most beautiful and realistic environments ever seen in a video game. | | • | AI - Neither friends nor enemies charge blindly into the fray. They can assess threats, navigate tricky terrain, and fashion weapons from whatever is at hand |
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Product Description
With part 3 of the Half-Life saga in the horizon, this collection brings you from the start so you're ready to take on the third episode of this exciting trilogy. Half Life earns its popularity and reputation at being the first First Person Shooter game to use aq lifelike, realtime plot that pits you in the action as well as behind the trigger. Created by Valve Software, each episode employs advanced technologies for better, more realistic play. In Half-Life, you assume the role of Dr. Gordon Freeman, a recently graduated theoretical physicist who must fight his way out of an underground research facility whose teleportation experimentations have gone awry. The second part of the trilogy of episodic expansions for Half-Life 2, Episode Two picks up where Episode One left off?with Gordon and Alyx traveling out of City 17 and into a vast new environment.
The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people people he cares about are counting on him. Intense, real-time gameplay of Half-Life 2 is made possible only by Source, Valve's new proprietary engine technology
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| Customer Reviews: Read 198 more reviews...
 best collection ever August 5, 2008
D. Boeger
Half-Life 2 saga: This is a great series. I am one of thoes two people in the world who never played Half-Life 2 before the Orange Box and I was sort of hesitant to buy this collection because the HL1 and HL2 demos are terrible, but I figured I would give it a try and see what the hype was all about. Trust me; when they say HL2 is one of the best games ever, they aren't lying. The action is non-stop and always very intense. It really makes you feel like some incredible action hero from a movie or something.
Team Fortress 2: This is without a doubt one of the best online games ever made. It's really fun and easy to pick up. The skill is not so much in the shooting as it is in teamwork and strategy, so it is a nice change from the traditional shooter.
Portal: Due to it's length, I would not recommend this game as a stand-alone title. However, as part of a collection, it is a great way to break up the action between intense TF2 matches and exhilirating HL2 vehicle sequences. It really is a great puzzle game when part of a collection.
Overall, The Orange Box is just an amazing collection. Even if you don't like the games as much as I do, there is a lot of great content and the price is undeniably unbeatable. For $30, you really can't go wrong with TOB.
Steam is awesome August 5, 2008
J. Shearrow
Ignore all the reviews about Steam being "Spyware" and "DRM" ridden. These are written by people who are ignorant to what Steam actually is and how it works - despite how extremely simple it is.
Yes, you do have to install Steam, but it is a relatively small file and has a very small memory footprint (it currently takes up 13mb of RAM, whereas Firefox is using 93). Yes you have to make a (FREE) account that doesn't require anything more than an email address. And what are the benefits of this system?
When you buy a Steam game, you put in the serial code that it comes with and the title is PERMANENTLY added to your Steam account. That means, even if you break the disc, or lose the serial number, or have a computer crash - You still have free access to that game FOREVER.
I can go anywhere in the world with an internet connection, onto any PC, download Steam, enter my info, and my entire list of purchased games is immediately available to be downloaded again for free.
Also note that when buying a game on a disc like The Orange Box, you do have the ability to install the game directly from the disc. It just simply needs to connect to the internet once to register the game to your account.
Steam is saving the PC gaming industry.
Oh yeah, and The Orange Box is awesome - I own it for my PC, and my Xbox 360.
The best deal on Amazon, no doubt!!! July 31, 2008
Abdullah Alomaim
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reading all the negative reviews about this game because of the "steam" app, I felt that I owe it to this game I write a good review about it.
First of all I have steam on my system and It's been running for a couple of months, never had any problems with it and never thought of uninstalling it.
In fact I think steam is a very good app if your interested in downloading games you like, rather than purchasing it from a store.
I live in Saudi Arabia and the games here cost twice as much as steam offers them if not more than twice. So that is one huge benefit of steam.
Second of all, you can't give a game 1 star because of this imaginary flaw you had which obviously your system can't handle.
The recommended requirement for this game is 2.4 Ghz, I've read some reviews of people bragging about steam with very low PC specs, and I'm pretty sure the problem isn't with steam it's with their spyware/adware filled systems.
I'll cut to the chase, and I'll review the game after noting that steam is not that bad. Half Life 2 is the best game I have ever played, period.
And I'm not alone in this. If you're interested in games or not, a boy or a girl, old or young, you owe it to your life to play Half Life 2.
The proof of the revolution of video games is more obvious in this game than any other.
The artistic factor and the amazing atmosphere give you an experience like no other.
I am yet waiting for a form of entertainment better than this.
So let alone, HL2 is still worth 40$, completed with 4 other amazing games is on heck of an offer.
HL2 episode one follows in the footsteps of HL2 in terms of story, quality and entertainment.
HL2 episode 2 will make you say "it just keeps getting better and better".
Portal is one of the most unique games I've ever played. It's no lesser than HL2, but has it's own form.
Team Fortress has been in development for Ten year years and that is pretty obvious when your playing, a near perfect multiplayer and the most fun.
A note on the graphics on these games, It still holds up as one of the best graphics out their due to the physics engine and the weight each partical has, I've seen newer games (2008) and I'm still waiting for a game that is more similar to reality than HL2. There are locations in the game where you really feel like your walking through reality, combined with 60 frames per second giving you an experience like no other.
Don't get me wrong, and don't surpass this review as the "fanboy" kind of review, HL2 indeed is one of the best games ever created by man and I've checked a sum of reviews from gaming websites where it was given an average of about 97% which ranks it in the top 5 games of all time, well deserved, and can't wait for HL2 episode 3.
a fine compilation July 24, 2008
J. R. Laney (NC, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, nothing I can say will be anything new, but yeah, the orange box is a great value in gaming. Even if you don't like half life, getting this is worth it just for Team Forteress 2 and Portal, the games which I have spent most of my time on. There's a nice veriety of experience betweent he story-driven single player of half life 2 and the episodes, the cartoony multiplayer of TF2, and the humerous puzzler portal. If you have a decent PC there is no real reason not to have this.
I guess the only downside would be having to install the Steam platform. Though I've had no major problems with it so far, some people I know say it can be frustratingly buggy.
Great Purchase July 22, 2008
Warchief (Los Angeles, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Low price. Check.
Fun games. Check.
This is one of the best video games purchase I've made. 5 great contents at the price of 6 dollars each.
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