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The Orange Box | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $26.99
You Save: $3.00 (10%)
New (39) Used (12) from $23.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 318
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 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: Brand New!!! Ships 1st class!!
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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 28 more reviews...
 Want more story August 14, 2008
I was really hoping for closure with Halflife. I played Halflife 1 and now the orange box and I still feel like a don't know anything. Who is the dude in the jacket. What are the Vorts doing. I don't get it. Great game though.
No Title August 11, 2008
Valve has made itself distinct in the PC world of gaming. We've all played through at least one session of Gordon Freeman clobbering some headcrab, have fond memoriories of a killer game of Team Fortress, and each time we see the fat man with the knob on his dome, we recognize how much skill Valve has. But Valve take the easy way out, by making the Orange Box a smourgasboard of games, but small ones.
The Orange Box is a great game deal, there's no denying that; the entire Half Life 2 collection with the 2nd sequal, the much innovative, mind-blowing Portal, and one of the origonal class-based multiplayers, Team Fortress 2. While there is 5 games total, the only true full game is the origonal Half Life 2. Both sequals are just episodes(half a game), not a full fledged 20+hr game, which goes the same for Portal, Valve's interpetation of a test lab rat. Among all the gold(or orange) in the Box, Portal truly is a diamond, by circling around a wormhole-generator gun as the main gameplay mechanic, using it to solve puzzles for a appliance company. Seems simple enough, but innovation is just breaking into games now(outside Nintendo). Portal is enjoyable enough, fun enough, and brillant enough to stand on it's own two feet, but Valve gives it 4 support beams to fall back on, channling the Box as a pilot game to lauch a hopefull franchise.
After hitting the snooze button for 10 years, Valve woke up to the fans call of a 2nd edition of Team Fortress. Instead of following the sequal norm of an upgraded graphic engine, Valve rehauls the whole look, flip-flopping over to a Pixar-type look, Incredibles, if I had to call one out, but ramped up violence/blood is what slappes the M on the box more than anything. Valve keeps one eye on TF2 online, now giving patches and updates for the unpopular clases, which keeps gameplay fresh and stops Valve from pumping out another full fledged game. Team Fortress has a great online community, but thats just it. It's ALL online, nothing else. No offline services, which isen't to bad, but when fans get love affairs for certain maps, the play-feild gets real stale.
Even though Valve gave us 5 games(4shorties) it's has all the makings for the perfect game sequal: a strong foundation to build off of(Half-Life 2), fresh new ideas, while still keeping to it's roots(Episodes 1 and 2, Portal), plus, a killer multiplayer function(Team Fortress 2). Valve put all of the ideas in the same box, but just put barriars between them.
 The Orange Box for PS3 August 10, 2008
If you are reading this then you are thinking about buying the Orange Box for the Playstation 3 system. It is 100% worth it. Make sure not to pay more than $30 USD for a new copy but it is one of the best buys out there. You will not be sorry.
Trust Me.
Sound and video glitches, but still worth buying. August 8, 2008
Yes, it's true, this is a somewhat shoddy port.
The audio is the biggest problem, from time to time the soundtrack engine glitches out for several minutes at a time, resulting in unpleasant digital noise over the music. In addition, sound effects in Team Fortress 2 often go missing when too much is happening at once.
There are some frame rate dips too, which really eat into the sense of immersion and can make TF2 a bit frustrating when too much is going on next to you.
But having said all that, Portal is an excellent game, and Team Fortress 2 has actually got me playing online and enjoying it. So given the cut price of the package and the amount of game contained, I'd have to say it's worth buying.
Actually a good game August 7, 2008
I had a couple questions after reading the reviews like others but the game is far from unplayable. I haven't experienced any noticable lag yet (the kind where you are like 'Okay this is messing up my experience' or something like that) just a couple spots here and there that don't really register in your conscious until a couple minutes later.
Load times are not a big deal either, although if you finish levels quickly in Portal they can be irritating. (The first couple levels are hella easy and you can pass them in less then a minute so having a load time every minute is a little tedious but as the levels get harder, it takes longer and longer to finish the levels so you won't be affected by it after 4-5 load times or so)
All in all, its a great game, best bang for your buck imaginable . Also, I reccomend the Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection if you have a BC PS3 because you are probably into playing great games regardless of their age if you like TOB.
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