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Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (PC DVD) | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy New: £17.99
You Save: £17.00 (49%)
New (5) Used (10) from £14.85
Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 287
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: sci-fi-action-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930058937
ASIN: B000RO0OKU
Release Date: October 19, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 61 more reviews...
 Superb Value, Great Games February 6, 2008
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
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.
Orange box- deal of the century! February 3, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
The Orange Box is packed full of excellent games- and at around 25, its a steal!
I highly recommend both Portal and Team Fortress 2. TF2 is brilliant in multiplayer mode and will offer hours of madness...you will probably end up pressing your "e" button quite a lot, even out of the game after playing this for a while (TF2 players will know what I mean) :)
There are a lot of decent servers out there to play on, my favourite being INX-gaming public TF2.
The graphics are really nice without being too demanding (I play at 1280x1024 on a x1950pro 256MB card, with highest settings and maximum AA and AF, all with a stable FPS of around 60)
Overall 10/10. You will not regret buying the Orange Box!
Fantastic value - a great package (Revised 7th November) October 13, 2007
48 out of 63 found this review helpful
OK, this review is based on Half Life 2 Episode 2 and Portal. There's already a couple of reviews here about Team Fortress 2 and loads of reviews elsewhere for Half Life 2 and subsequent Episode 1. Chances are, if you're interested in The Orange Box you're already a Half Life fan.
So what a treat you are in for with Episode 2. Quite simply, the finest chapter of the Half Life saga to date. OK, so it's still not very long, but it's a lot longer than Ep1, and it really feels bigger in every sense. The environments are new, the storyline seems richer and the scale of it is just in a different league to what has gone before. Just for starters, try the new Hunter enemies. The single nastiest thing in Half Life 2 so far. They chase you into buildings, upstairs, into rooms and can take FOUR double-shotgun blasts at close range. Very tough, very scary.
The voice acting is superb. By this point you really do feel like a Half Life game is like catching up with old friends, who you've not seen in a year or so. The characters are genuine, warm and at times very, very funny, such is the strength of the scripting. At certain moments, you could even find yourself yelling "NO!!!!!!" at the screen and wiping tears from your eyes. I have honestly never played any game that has made me feel so emotionally involved with its situations and inhabitants.
My only regret is that I've finished it now. It'll never be able to take me on that journey again. Oh how I envy you, who've not yet played it...
Don't get me wrong - there's lots of replay value here and I'm looking forward to the developer commentary, which worked really well on the last game.
God, I'd love to tell you more, but it just wouldn't be fair. Just give us Episode Three quickly, please Valve. Don't leave us hanging like that!
Some would criticise the Half Life series for being linear, but that misses the point. Half Life 2 has a story to tell, and Episode 2 is a very compelling continuation of that story. It wants you to see certain things, and to have certain experiences. The story and game would likely suffer if it had a non-linear path, which would mean that you stood a good chance of missing key things.
Portal. This game is MAD. Crackers even. Without a doubt this is the funniest game I've ever played. And it just makes no sense at all. it's basically a first-person perspective logic puzzle that cannot be solved using logic. Sound strange? Well, it is. It's a kind of lonely experience though - there is only you, your portal gun, the walls and, of course, an increasingly insane computer voice.
The computer voice is by far the highlight of the game. Imagine "Mother" from the first Alien movie, add in a bit of HAL 9000 and then add in a huge heap of Marvin the Paranoid Android. It's difficult to even get started on some of the rooms because you're just laughing so hard.
I've now finished Portal (admittedly it's pretty short), and I can readily state you're in for a treat when you get to the end. The final boss battle is, at times, almost chronically difficult to concentrate on for the simple reason that the computer's insults are the funniest thing you'll have ever heard in a game. You will honestly double up in laughter at some of the things she accuses you of in these final moments. Once she's dead, you're then treated to the best, catchiest song ever composed for a videogame. So good, in fact, that I downloaded it and my wife is going to use it in a presentation at work.
I know I said I'd not review Team Fortress 2, but it certainly deserves a mention. I've never been a huge fan of online shooters, but this is something else. It's a simple game for newbies to get into, but it hides a remarkable depth as each character class is very reliant on the others. Team really means something here. And it's very funny, when you die (amost instantly, but it doesn't matter) and the screen jubilantly shows you your liver/lungs or whatever with a huge arrow pointing to it.
In Short, if you are even remotely interested in gaming, you simply must buy the Orange Box. This is by far the neraest thing I have ever seen to a vital purchase. No gamer should be without it and there's really something for everyone. Boxed up, dowloaded or whatever, it really is very good value for money. Especially if you felt a bit stiffed when Episode 1 came out. When you consider you can buy all these games seperately which would cost you about 20 per game, you just can't argue with value on this scale.
Oh, and just one final thing - let's leave Steam alone now. We know it was awful at first and it's a system hog, but today it's a very good distribution and update system. Sometimes you might even be thankful for it.
Review the Box December 17, 2007
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
I just wanted to write a quick 'review' in the manner so many others here have done. I'm not going to actually review the games in this fantastic box at all. Instead I'm going to talk about Steam - the client server used by the publishers of this wonderful, award winning and superb value for money box set. Steam is software which connects through the internet to verify that you have not bought a second hand (and therefore illegal) copy of the game, it updates any and all of the games from Steam and does this all very well. Some people do however, have a little difficulty remembering passwords and such like, so do remember to right them down. This password business is only a slow process the first time you register with Steam, from then on you log in as easily as instant messenger.
See what I did here? I wrote a review about The Orange Box, but didn't actually talk about it at all...which is exactly what a lot of other people have done here. Because someone has been unable to figure out how to use the Steam account, or even the 'reviewer' who bought his copy second hand (tut tut), couldn't play the game, they decided to give it one star. Why? That's like saying "My car is supposed to be able to go really fast, but it won't even start - 1 star" when they can't figure out how to open the car and get into it.
Review the Games please - not your techno fear.
OK the real deal - what you really get and what you really need February 8, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
As per previous reviews you need internet connectivity to activate your steam account - this was done with the minimal of fuss after installing the actual software - be prepared to leave steam running for a while after installing as it automatically updates all the components with the latest patches/fixes.
What you get isn't actually 5 games but 7 . . . .
1) HL 2
2) HL 2 Episode 1
3) HL 3 Episode 2
4) Portal
5) Team Fortress 2 (Multiplayer only)
6) HL 2 Lost Coast (auto:downloaded from Steam)
7) Peggle Extreme (auto:downloaded from Steam)
I somehow got this for 17.99 new just before xmas - possibly a mistake on Amazons part but would happily pay 26.
Recommend getting yourself a decent system before playing - this Enchances game unbeliavably as the story and interactions hold your undivided attention.
The orange box is without a doubt the best gaming investment I have ever made/enjoyed (as was the original Half-Life series - which even though now dated, is still an enjoyable retro game). This game package is without a doubt second to none. I can't recommend it enough without sounding like someone from Valve is crossing my palm with silver.
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