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The Orange Box

The Orange Box

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From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games

List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $26.49
You Save: $3.50 (12%)



New (28) Used (3) from $21.50

Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 232 reviews
Sales Rank: 497

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): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0

MPN: 9852
UPC: 014633098525
EAN: 0014633098525
ASIN: B000PS2XES

Release Date: October 9, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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

Accessories:

  • Half-Life 2 (Orange Box): Prima Official Game Guide
  • PC Gamer (1-year)

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Editorial Reviews:

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. BR 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


Customer Reviews:   Read 227 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars Bundles... good and pad   November 19, 2008
Jacob Trent
I mostly purchased this bundle for TF2 and Portal. I find those two games to be entertaining and well done. I find HL2, however, to be quite disturbing. I can handle aliens rushing me -- in the dark even -- but, there are just some disturbing scenes of blood and mangled bodies in creepy towns that proves too much for me.


5 out of 5 stars Amazing   November 17, 2008
Eric Chia Hsu (USA)
Not much to say. Team Fortress 2 is a great multiplayer game. Portal and Half Life 2 + episodes are great single player games, portal more for mechanics and half life more for story.


5 out of 5 stars Excellent game   November 16, 2008
A. Nguyen
Great set of games to play. br /Most of them you can play with friends. br /Which is good. br /Unless you have no friends. br /Then it is not good.


5 out of 5 stars Most worthwhile 30$ a gamer can spend   November 9, 2008
RedHobbit
The orange box comes complete with 3 games, one of those having 2 expansions called episodes. Half 2 and it's two follow up episodes are a lot fun, combining first person shooters with puzzle elements and allowing you to use the innovative Gravity Gun with the Havok Physics engine for an exceedingly fun experience. br /Team Fortress II is a fun multi-player shooter with plenty of online applicability. br /Portal was declared game of the year by a number of sources so go check it out.


5 out of 5 stars How a great game goes bad.   November 9, 2008
Eugene P. Egan
I bought the game from Amazon and dowloaded it. It played perfectly the first time. The next time and ever since it has not played and no one can seem to assit me.