Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (PS3)

I bought this collection for around £15, the price for a new version has seemingly sky rocketed since then, but I'd still say its worth it, as you essentially get 5 games worth over a £100 separately when they were new (probably) including one of the best games of all time!Half Life 2 is simply one of the best games ever made, and all those reviews reflect that. It is colossal, I don't know how much video game miles I've covered by foot, hovercraft or car, but the time spent on one run through this game is a lot!Crucially, its the gameplay that sets this game apart from the rest and even manages to shame games released in its wake (looking at you COD, Battlefield clones etc ad infinity). Although the game is linear, and there is only one path through the various levels, you can choose how you get there. You can go all Rambo and run and gun everything in sight, or you can take a more cerebral approach, solve puzzles or use the environment to your advantage. For example; there is one street section that is full of zombie / head crab things, you can either pick them off one by one, which, depletes the not limitless amounts of ammo on offer, or you can trap them in a make do blast furnace / flame pit and burn them to a crisp in one fell swoop!Although this game is pretty much a straight up shooter, there are a lot strong survival horror elements to it. I've lost count of the times I've jumped up in my seat when ducking down through a hole or into somewhere claustrophobic and been scared witless by one of those face-grabber things, or when sneaking down a seemingly abandoned area, hearing a strange, heavy breathing sound and suddenly confronted by another horrific creature! It's very unnerving stuff and has more thrills that a Resident Evil game.The graphics are great, and although the game many years ago, it still holds up to today's trend setters, although you can tell at times it isn't brand new it in no way looks poor or detracts from the gaming experience.Both expansion packs are pretty much the same game but take place after the original games, with Episode 2 easily the better.Portal is great, much shorter by comparison and inferior to Portal 2, but still a cracking game.Team Fortress 2 is one of the most fun and uniquely animated FPS online-shooters you can get, and has real unique character and humour that is lacking in other, more well known franchise.Overall, one of the best gaming purchases I've ever made. Bargains this good are rare but shop around as the current prices are steep, but still, its worth every penny!Worth the price to get Half Life 2 alone!

Lots of people still think to do this day, is it still worth it buying an orange box. Or maybe you console gamers wanna see a good old PC game!Well I can answer both of yours questions, its still worth buying and for the price its should be in everyones shelf. Console gamers buy this so you can get a slice of life from a pc classic.Half-life 2 one of the most well known, best valve game that changed pc gaming for ever! The brilliant mind of Gabe created this.With addicting gameplay, intriguing characters and amazing story!TF2 is my 3rd fave game (on pc) of ALL time! But on console TF2 is just dead. I mean online isn't a thing anymore and there are no updates. TF2 is near 200 updates now, but its still a blast with friends! Likeable characters, addicting gameplay, cartoon awesome graphics and did I mention the characters are so damn likeable!? like seriouslyPortal is a challenging puzzle game, its my fave on the orange boss. Pretty alright graphics for today standards but gameplay that most triple A games can only dream of capturing. If you like portal one than get 2! Its the same but bigger and better. Portal will leave you scratching your head, wether you just look online for the answer or solve it the good old way portal is a game you will be begging your friends to play just so you can talk about it!Im not good with reviews and probably only said 50% of whats good with the orange box, but just get it! Its just a classic everyone has. So why haven't you?

Just got this on monday,I've given a playthrough to all games on the disc.specs:favourite single player game on the disc: Half Life 2I've never played it before and had some interesting chaptersLeast Single player game on the disc: HL2episode 2what I didn't like:-lack of a map (as far as I know) I'm not sure why a man that walks around with a high-tec suit wouldn't have a map or GPS system, I found myself going around in circles (especially on the ravenholme chapter) very disorientating for no proper reason-Horrible crackling noisethat got so bad I ended up putting on the subtitles and turning the volume down for large parts of the game, unnacceptable-Pathetically slow loading timesespecially when you get in a problem area and you need to start over again,very frustrating, again...not good enough-cliche delivery of story throughout all half life games included "phew we made it that was clo-OH MY GOD SOMETHING BAD IS HAPPENING ALL OF A SUDDEN"this got very repetitive and started becoming comedicHL2:E2 had 2 chapters I found ridiculously repetitive, The turret antlion one and the strider one near the endeither seems like shameless padding of a short game or a company of developers that really,really like strider battles so much they've made you fight about 10 of them at the end along with those hunters,even knowing you've had enough strider battles throughout HL2 and HL2E1, it was incredibly boring and more challenge than fun and I ended up skipping the chapter. first half of this game is spent sidetracking (won't say because of spoiler reasons) which barely has anything to do with the main storyline-Environments seeing as this is a sci-fi game I thought there would be more hi-tech locations, most of it seems to be flora and shanty locations with exception of the latter part of HL2 and the begginning of HL2E1. Seemed more like "the witcher"Graphics for all games:good for 2007, but has dated considerably...looks rather muddy nowI'd suggest Deus Ex:Human Reveloution If you haven't played it, I find it much better in respect of storyline, environments graphics and gameplay (stealth seems like a more realistic way of puzzling a player on how to get by without being spotted, rather than just not giving people a map and making the locations a maze as if the place was invented by a drunk 7 year old and not coherent architects)I will leave the review on a positive note saying that at least the puzzles throughout all of the single player games have been a bit of a learning curve for me and feels accomplishing to get past I see there is potential to make the future games of half life better