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The Orange Box | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $13.99
You Save: $6.00 (30%)
New (31) Used (11) from $13.99
Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 590
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: Shooter Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
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MPN: 9851
Model: 15782781
UPC: 014633098518
EAN: 0014633098518
ASIN: B000PE0HBI
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 51 more reviews...
 Low Cost FUN! May 26, 2009
Whether you know Half Life or don't, this game will entertain you. The extra games give you a bundle you can't pass up for the price.
 TF2 broken, no updates ever. April 21, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first got it, the game was fun as hell except for a few glaring bugs in TF2, such as terrible lag, frequent disconnections, agonizing load times, exploitable maps. I figured it would be perfect in a matter of time when valve pushed out a bugfix update.
Here we are in 2009 and the update never came. And valve has stated that no update is coming. http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/09/valve-no-update.html
This online updating system the ps3 offers gives developers the dubious option of shipping a broken product and fixing it later. Valve only carried out the first part. I wish i had gotten the PC version.
 just get it March 25, 2009
if you're a fan of shooters this is the collection to get. Great story and game play. It's way too easy to get caught up in playing through over and over again. It's way better on the pc but still worth the $20 to get it on the ps3.
Portal is the Jesus of Gaming! March 18, 2009
Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - Great
Portal - Perfect
Team Fortress 2 - Perfect for the gamer with friends (you lucky person you)
Saying anything more than this would just be redundant.
Quite Possibly STILL the Best $-for-$ VALUE for the PS3! February 28, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gordon who? I'm one of the handful of people who missed out on Half-Life One. So my main complaint is the intro to Half-Life 2. You basically wake up on a train and find yourself in a train station...OK, so not much was put into an opening movie or storyline, but thankfully it gets much better from there. There are subsequent areas where things are somewhat explained incrementally, but you'll probably be so into the quality of the gameplay by then that it just starts filling things in a little better. There was obviously a great deal of planning that went into HL2 and BRAVO to Valve for following that up with great execution of the plan. There were a couple of places I did notice a frame rate drop, but they were quickly played through. In fact, there is so much going on in this game at times that it's a pure wonder that there aren't a couple of dozen places with frame rate problems.
Thankfully this game was produced in a epic-type format. You go on a true journey from that original train station through some pretty creative scenes that require a combination of quick reflexes, puzzle-solving and resourcefulness to get you safely through plenty of good old fashioned shoot-them-before-they-shoot-you adrenaline pumping confrontations. Quick Save often and at any time you please. Then there's the almost guilt-inducing selection of weapons you collect when progressing through levels and plenty of times where you'll nearly jump out of your seat or nearly paralyzed with fear (I can still hear that attack gunship's gun batteries charging up before firing lethal rounds...Ouch!)
HL2 is just a GREAT game...Even if you never really liked FPS games. There are times that will be frustratingly difficult, but when you finally pull it off and clear the level it produces a sublime sense of satisfaction rarely found anywhere else on Earth. The graphics are really top-notch along with the sound effects. The other 2 HL2 "Episodes" extend the story, although the game titles are unnecessarily confusing:
Half-Life 2; Half-Life 2: Episode One; Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Those are 3 separate games, so why not HL2, HL3: Episode One and HL3: Episode Two?!?! Or even HL2, HL2: Episode Two and HL2: Episode Three?
Portal is a great diversion, although it's over just about the time you start really excelling at the game. Can't comment on Team Fortress 2, haven't played it. All told, we got a great deal of fun out of 4 of the games in The Orange Box and I've bought more expensive games that have only one game (like most) and regretted the purchase because of poor gameplay and zero fun factor. In other words, you can't go wrong with The Orange Box! Get it and prepare yourself for a truly enveloping gaming experience...
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