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 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.... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Electronic Arts Release date : 9 October 2007 EAN: 0014633098495 UPC: 014633098495
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Must-have compilation containing both Half-Life 2 (the best first-person shooter since Doom) and Portal (one of the most inventive brain-ticklers ever conceived). Playing Half-Life 2 is a bit like starring in a sci-fi horror remake of Die Hard, but better, while Portal is a description-defying 3D puzzle that folds your sense of spatial awareness in on itself. Utterly fantastic. - Charlie Brooker"
EddyGregs added this to a list 2 months, 1 week ago
"Release Date: October 10, 2007 (NA)
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Valve
Genre: Compilation
The Orange Box, for a few months, was an exclusive compilation for the Xbox 360 that was worth the price tag of the system alone. The terrific port of Half-Life 2 mixed with the decent Team Fortress 2 and wonderful Portal equated into one of the best compilations ever made. It's also the compilation that forced another first-person shooter into my small list of FPS games that I love, with Half-Lif"
sunset96 added this to a list 8 months, 1 week ago
"In my opinion the 3 Half-Life games included on the disc combine to create the best story created in any videogame. The main character never says a word and the story still tops all others! Portal is a short and fun puzzle game while Team Fortress 2 is a good class-based multiplayer game."
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Why It Was Selected
No one was happy when games got a price hike a few years ago. But you can't say The Orange Box isn't worth every penny. It comes with five games: Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episodes 1 & 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal. So, you're talking about one of (maybe the best) shooters of all time, an enjoyable follow-up with Episode 1, the incredible (and emotionally charged) Episode 2, a solid multiplayer game, and one of the coolest and most inventive puzzle games around? There's no"