Orange Box is by far one of the best deals in gaming.

I picked up Orange Box for the 360 this past week. It contains 5 great games. 3 of which are completely new to everyone

Half - Life 2
Half - Life 2 - Episode 1
Half - Life 2 - Episode 2
Portal
Team Fortress 2



Now I haven't played any of the Half Lifes, I'm still working on Half Life 1 that I picked up for the PC. So I'm not playing the HL2 section of the disc. But I have tried the other two and I'm amazed.

Portal - is probably the most innovative game this year, and probably in years, it's not very long but it's VERY VERY addicting, and fun, and absolutely hilarious. You awaken to find yourself in a testing facility apparently hired on to do training with a top secret device that creates portals. You are led through this training by a very eccentric and hilarious computer program. The gameplay is a bunch of crazy puzzle rooms one after another. The games visual style fits absolutely perfectly with the gameplay and with the quirky nature of the place. I find the final boss to be the best final boss I've faced in years.


Team Fortress 2 - I have tried this out some and I'm quite impressed. It visually looks like a comic book, and it's very comical in nature but the game is very solid, there is only 6 levels to play on but each one is VERY well thought out unlike other multilayer FPS games where you have 16 maps but only 2 are worth playing on. All 6 of these are worth playing on. The characters are quite different and are far more than a palette change. Each one has a set of weapons it can use, and depending on it's class may be more or less effective with them. A few classes may have usage of a shotgun, but scouts only get a bonus as they specialize in them. Each class has their own stats, some are fast some are slower, some have more or less health. There are scouts, spies (spies seem neat they can cloak in invisibility or disguise themselves as a member of the other side) medics, demomen, heavy artillery.. a pretty large array of classes to choose from I can't quite remember them all.

It's out right now for PC and 360, and will be out soon for PS3, I'd highly recommend this purchase. 5 amazing titles in their own right all wrapped up into a package that costs the price of only 1 game. I don't see how it can be passed up.

i might check it out down the line... i got haze coming in a month and i'm positive that's going to keep me busy for a very long time.... by the time i get tired of it, i'll already have GTAIV... which will do the same as haze...

but it is a great deal... tha'ts like 12 bucks per game

portal looks so sweet and team fortress 2 looks like the next lan party game since halo 3 was a let down :mad:

yes i have it and it tops halo3 by far it's a great game and i like it this is what i mean by something new

I was really bored of CSS. TF2 is a great game. The computers voice in portal makes the game that much better.

portal has such an awseome ending

For some reason after an update, I can't play any of the new games with the new engine mods, while i had no problems playing the TF2 beta.... and good luck getting support to help in a brand new game, everyone's going to have problems :(

thnx for the explanation of what orange box actually is, I saw a comercial and saw that the original HL2 was shown but they really didn't say what was in the damn box, then went to see if direct2drive had it for DL but thye nnot selling it yet at that point, I might check it out now thnx

I've finally finished all the games on the Orange Box, besides a few achievements I've missed here and there it's all done. Great game series. I'm glad it drastically changed from the first Half Life, that game was annoying. Great ending to EP2 can't wait for EP3.

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Originally Posted by Struck420

since halo 3 was a let down :mad:

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hahah. maby if u were good it would be a word game.Your :mad: is incorrect.