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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $21.88
You Save: $8.11 (27%)
New (28) Used (1) from $21.88
Avg. Customer Rating:  231 reviews
Sales Rank: 519
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: This video game is brand new, never opened and never played! Buy today to be one of millions of satisfied B-Logistics customers.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Meet Satan. His name is Steam October 17, 2008
The Orange Box seems like a tremendous value. The atmosphere and play mechanics of Half Life, the frustrating yet still amusing Portal, and the bash and go Team Fortress 2.
But you get another bit of software for free. It's called Steam, and it connects you to the Valve servers. It also needs updating right out of the box, so be prepared for thrills as you sit and wait... and wait...
It's default settings have it run on start up, so it sits in your system tray like a barnacle. You have to change settings to get rid of it.
Thanks for the great games, Valve. Too bad I have to have steam running to play them.
 Game uses Steam which causes problems October 15, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This game uses Steam - a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation.
Some of the problems with Steam:
1. Privacy - steam collects information from users, without notifying the user at the time of collection or offering an opt-out. This leads many people to consider Steam to be a form of spyware.
2. Steam is a worldwide delivery system yet it allows publishers to geographically restrict where a game is available, and at what price. Many people have found that in regions outside the US games are either not available, or are sold at grossly inflated prices compared to the US.
3. To play a game that uses Steam you must connect over the Internet to the Steam website and create a Steam account. So if you are without Internet access you will be denied access to run your game. Also Steam's Internet servers are not guaranteed to be running at all times, so you will also be denied access to your game if their servers are down.
 Great game and a thick plot that only gets better in Episode 2 October 14, 2008
Great game and the graphics are top-notch. Team Fortress 2 is a great multiplayer game and good to have along as HL2 EP2 seemed to be short lived.
Doesn't get any better October 13, 2008
The HL series is simply one of the best games you can play as a FPS. The Orange Box gives a great package for those who haven't played the ones prior to Episode 2. It's a complete set of HL2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Portal and Team Fortress.
The game looks beautiful and can run on a normal PC with a decent, mainstream graphics card. In this day of DX 10 and dual core processors being the "minimum requirement": it's great having a game series like this look fantastic without requiring a new PC.
This is a must have for anyone who likes a FPS.
Luved it October 7, 2008
This game pack is great. HL was a tad short but portal makes up for it. Portal it self is worth the price of the orange box.
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