The Orange Box | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $27.19
You Save: $12.80 (32%)
New (27) Used (4) from $26.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  217 reviews
Sales Rank: 304
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
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
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: INCLUDES GAME, CASE AND KEY CODE. NO MANUAL IN KEEP CASE ONLY
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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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| 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.
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 212 more reviews...
Good Fun October 7, 2008
Good fun, portal was very interesting and mind boggling, which gave a good challenge and made you think outside the box on some instances. TF2 is fun, but as online play goes, it's as fun as the people that plays it, too many immature kids playing it for my taste on the open server. And thinks they're cool, by uttering profanities every other word.
Half Life 2 is ok, didn't care much for the storyline, it just didn't grab me.
 Portal rocks! October 6, 2008
Anything connected to Half Life 2 is, of course, awesome. But Portal really is just something altogether different. Such a completely awesome game for people like me. I would describe it as part Myst/Riven and part shooter. Which, to me, is perfect.
 never again October 5, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tried for 4 days to install, but thanks to valve's DRM and steam, I never could get it to run. And couldn't return the game to wal-mart or resell it on ebay, so my $40 game ended up in the wood stove. I will never buy a game from valve or steam again.
What a nightmare October 4, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Got it out of the box when I got home, excited about playing Portal. Plugged it in, I get nothing but an account prompt. Okay, that's fine, I had a Steam account years ago. Type in my username and password. Okay, doesn't work, that's weird. Okay, so I do the password retrieval. Hours go by. Nothing in my e-mail. I try to create a new account. I'm sorry, your e-mail is already being used! Your account name is already taken!
Frustrating, no fun to be had here, waste of time. No support number to call, no way to get to a human being. Horrible support, horrible installation, horrible product to purchase.
The Orange Box is definitely worth the price. September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Before buying this game I reviewed it here and was a bit apprehensive due to the negative views of the Steam client. After getting the game and playing it I can say that all the worrying was over nothing.
First: Yes, you need the Steam client to play these games. It is clearly stated on the seal "Product offered subject to your acceptance of the Steam Subscriber Agreement". I advice not letting this little obstacle put you off from buying this great package. After all is done, you could very well be happy with Steam for its usefulness. I've even bought games directly from Steam and I am sure you would too, especially during weekly specials.
It is important to know that the games are saved to your Steam account. Therefore, you must buy these games new in order to play them as they cannot be bought used or sold.
Second: Yes, you NEED to activate the games online and download them. I do not have dial-up, but I would not recommend a buyer getting this if he or she does have it. Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2 : Episode 2 are over 7 gigs each. If you are brave enough to attempt to download these games on a 28-56k, I applaud you. Steam does update every now and then, so keep that in mind.
Now to the game play:
Half Life 2 set: Great games. The graphics are amazing and you will quickly become immersed in it during play. The mood is very dark and depressing, but you'll have fun playing it. There isn't much of a final-boss in these games, instead there are challenges through every part of the maps.
Portal: This is a very entertaining game. Your only weapons are your portal gun and your brain. You have to navigate through space, calculating how long a jump should be, how far off you should jump, and all while trying to locate the proper place to put your portal to complete the stage. The in-game commentaries by GlaDOS definitely makes the game fun to play. If, after completing, you're left unsatisfied by the challenge try out the bonus stages.
Team Fortress 2: This is perhaps my favorite game from the Orange Box. This is a multi-player ONLINE game and is definitely a must-play. The cartoonish look and feel of the characters make this game a blast to play.
Also as a bonus, you get Peggle Extreme and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast along with the package. All-in-all, this is definitely worth having.
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