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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $54.99
Buy New: $27.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 433
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 9851
UPC: 014633098518
EAN: 0014633098518
ASIN: B000PE0HBI
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: never used, still in origianl shrink wrap
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| Features:
| • | 5 Games, One Box - The Orange Box is the ultimate collection of innovative action games for console, and an amazing introduction to the Half Life series for console gamers | | • | Epic Storyline - Half Life 2 - Episode Two takes gamers deeper into one of the best-known stories in gaming, following the desperate struggle of Gordon Freeman against the mysterious Combine. In this episode, gamers will leave the confines of City 17 for the first time. | | • | Redefining Action - Portal delivers an innovative new action gaming experience. Arming players with a portal gun allowing them to create portals from one location to another with the press of a button, Portal will forever change the way that gamers interact with their environment. | | • | World-Class Multiplayer - Team Fortress 2 is the sequel to granddaddy of role-based multiplayer action games. Featuring nine distinct roles - Heavy, Spy, Scout, Demoman, Engineer, Medic, Sniper, Soldier and Pyro - Team Fortress 2 is one of this year's most anticipated multiplayer games for any platform. |
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Product Description
The Orange Box includes all the content of The Black Box for PC, plus the original Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One. Innovative games featured in The Orange Box include Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the second installment in Valve's episodic trilogy advances the award-winning story, leading the player to new locations outside of City 17, as well as the pioneering type of single-player action game Portal, which rewrites the rules for how players approach and manipulate their environment, and Team Fortress 2 -- an all-new version of the legendary title that spawned team based multiplayer action games with a daring new art style features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Where are my feet??? March 24, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
There's a lot to like about half-life 2. I tried playing half-life, but honestly, the frustration on the PC got out-of-hand. The issue wasn't the PC, the computer is far more powerful than need be, but the issue was with the character moving like he's on roller skates. Yes, I mean it. When I play Oblivion or Bioshock the screen looks and the movement feels like walking or running, when you play a Half-Life game, it's like gliding.
I would be okay with the "gliding" movement, but when you have to make some careful jumps, or you can fall off an edge you can't "feel" your feet. I know it sounds weird but the character in Half-Life is just an arm with a gun mounted to a unicycle. So my issue with both games is that it doesn't feel like human movement, it's too slick and fast. When you get close up on an enemy and try to center on it the slightest touch to the joy-stick sends your site right past.
Now, why do I like HL2?
Well, for one, the PS3 control is easier to use for this game than "WASD" config on the keyboard. When playing the PC version I feel like every key stroke just moves the character too fast and too far and there's no way to slow him down.
Also, I like the PS3 has all five games on one disk, that's lovely, and the quick-save is a must-have.
The graphics look lovely through my 42" Bravia 3LCD via HDMI 1.3 and the 7.1 LPCM sound is fairly intense, though some extra rear ambiance would have added to the experience. A warning, if you have your PS3 plugged into a receiver that does not process LPCM, you will likely get a 2.1 mix for sound. (suggestion, the new STR DG720 Sony is $299.00, excellent 7.1 LPCM playback!)
Overall the one thing I can't get around, no feet! I got stuck between to pipes and had to go back to the last save point, when I look down, no feet? WHERE'S the REST OF ME??? Really, all this work into the game and there's no dude holding the damn gun. When you walk along a narrow ledge or pipe, he just glides, you look down, no feet, no body, nothing.
So my issue with Half-Life 1 & 2 all episodes is that the guy has no feet. It doesn't matter if your one a pipe, the dirt or concrete he moves exactly the same, like a wheel on a flat surface. To me, in a game like this control is everything to gameplay and when I feel like the character can't be controlled gameplay is diminished.
Also, a not to game developers: Could you please let us program the controller like we can the Keyboard and Mouse? Really? Please? I want to be able to look with the right and move with the left, but all the left axis does is strafe left and right, not turn. I hate this!!! I don't need it to strafe! I want to be able to turn and look separately and not use to sticks just to move!
All and all, an okay game, but I think enough issues to say that it could have been so much better.
 Super great title for PS3! March 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you have a PS3, then you need The Orange Box. Halflife has always been a favorite of mine, and since my computer stoped running it, I was very excited to get it on my PS3. The rumors that the critics and 360 fanchildren say about the framerate being bad and it having horible load times are complete lies. The framerate runs at a constant 30FPS which is what the game is designed to run on. I've only noticed a few, and I mean VERY few dips in the framerate. And as far as the load times go, if you can't wait 10-15 seconds for a game to load, then perhaps you should not be playing video games. Halflife 2 and the other 2 episodes runs better on my PS3 than they did on my old PC. Also, Portal is one of the most inovative games out there, a must try. As far as Team Fortress goes, I don't have my PS3 online so I can't give a review on that, but I've heard its really good. Hands down this is one of the best titles for the PS3 to date. If you are an old Halflife fan, or a first person sci-fi fan then this game is for you!
Great Collection - Intermittent Server Probs February 15, 2008
The games are about as fun as it gets, especially if you're like me and played the original on PC over a LAN with friends. The Team Fortress game isn't quite like the original, but it's a heck of a lot of fun. One issue I have is the lack of VoIP consistency. It's nearly non-existent, only being able to hear quarter-second spots of noise that comes out unintelligible. I'm not all that broken up, though, because I'm kinda sick of hearing little kids tell me that I "just got owned"...
If you want a solid bunch of games, though, don't hesitate.
great game and great value February 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
like a lot of people I wasnt able to play team fortress online and was getting very frustrated with it. I was trying to play through the wifi on the ps3 and I soon relized that in order to play I had to hook the ps3 into a cable modem router. For some reason it wont let you play team fortress through the wifi, even though it is no problem with COD4. Overall a great buy.
Portal - best game of 2007 February 8, 2008
Half Life is a great game. It's been reviewed to death and if you haven't played it, you should. But the real reason to buy the Orange Box immediately is the add-on 'Portal'. Portal is a puzzle based game that has an incredibly unique game mechanic and amazing story line riddled with black humor. Basically you a trapped in a test facility (think human lab rat) and forced to try and escape using your wits and the Portal gun. This little marvel has just one function- it allows you to create 2 holes in any two surfaces (walls, floors, ceilings, platforms... well anything.) Whatever goes in one hole comes out the other. Simple. Your goal is to use this mechanic to warp to the exit of each room, but thwarting your every move along the way is a homocidal computer called GlaDos. Her's is the only voice heard in the game and through her dialogue you learn the 'story' behind what's happening to you. The voice acting is suberb, the dialogue is amazingly sharp, witty and very, very funny. And the puzzles real mind benders. Trying to wrap your brain around the 3d logistics of how to get from one place to another is so much fun. This really was the best game of 2007 and I can't recommend it highly enough.
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