Half-Life 2 - The Orange Box on PS3

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User collections:	Best Games, Must play games on 360 and PS3, Games I Own
Developers:	VALVE SOFTWARE
Format:	PS3
Released:	07/07/2007
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Brief synopsis of Half-Life 2 - The Orange Box

The Orange Box delivers five innovative action games from Valve - creators of the blockbuster Half Life franchise, in one box. The Orange Box includes Half Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2 in addition to full versions of award-winning Half Life 2 and Half Life 2: Episode One for an engrossing first-person action experience.

All new games in The Orange Box are:

Half Life 2: Episode Two - the second chapter in Valve's award-winning trilogy, taking gamers beyond the walls of City 17 for the first time.

Portal - A groundbreaking new kind of action game that will forever change the way gamers interact with their environment, much like Half Life 2's gravity gun rewrote the rules for how gamers manipulate in-game objects and use physics.

Team Fortress 2 - The long-awaited return of the legendary king of role-based online multiplayer games, Team Fortress 2 pushes the Source Engine to new heights with a daring new art style and deep multiplayer gameplay for nine distinct roles.

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Still Alive

KatiMark from Warwickshire, England [Highly rated reviewer] , 08/01/2008

Wow. There is just far too much to say about this game. Just far too much. With 5 games in 1 box I am not surprised that no one has attempted a review to cover that much detail in 500 words!

I suppose the best thing to do is presume that you, the reader, has no knowledge of this game what-so-ever. You are now a scientist named Gordon Freeman. With several nicknames including 'The Free Man' and so forth. You first made an appearance in the late 90's with the original Half Life game, with two expansion packs closely following into the new decade. You started in a research facility named Black Mesa, where things got a bit pear shaped. Incidently, you managed to open a portal to a boarder world named Xen - where creatures of every shape and size squeezed through and then continued to slaughter everyone and anyone in sight.

Thats the background of Half Life, in a nutshell. The new (or not so new) Half Life 2 introduces you to a new world of pain and a slight hint of genecide. Trying not to give too much away about the storyline or game (because that's really what you are going to buy this game for) you are under attack from an alien species pretty much the entire time. The game shares a lot of attributes with such games like Silent Hill, to the degree of walking along and wetting your kecks every so often when something flies out and gives you a good going over.

That's 1/5 games.

The 2nd game is coincidently Half Life - Episode 1. Pretty straight forward.

The 3rd game is Half Life - Episode 2. Hmm!

The 4th game is an innovative new style of stratigic puzzle solving called Portal. Honestly, I can't see this game every losing it's playability. If you're not at all interested in first person shooters - just rent this game to play portal. Guess what it's about? Portals!!

And finally, the last game in the box, so to say, is a renowned Team Fortress multiplayer game. Graphically different to Half Life, with a different weapons system and.. well let's just say it's got very little simularity to Half Life! Addictive online class-based multiplayer. Simple.

Still not too sure whether to buy it or not? Rent it! Just don't expect to blink for the next month!

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NOT FOR ME!

kingjames112 from Macclesfield [Highly rated reviewer] , 03/03/2008

first off i had no idea what was going on in this game....i didn't like the controls,the amount of times you have to shoot someone before they die !!1 grrr team fortress was confusin as i had no idea where to go lol .... some ppl may like this game but i didn't lol... i think someone that had played the first halflife would like this game as they would understand what was going on :) alsooooo there were too many loading screens!

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Team Fortress 2

d0m from LONDON [Highly rated reviewer] , 12/03/2008

TF2 is one of the most fun and enjoyable online games which I've played in a long time.

It's really well thought out and crafted; attention to detail is stunning, controls are good, animations are hilarious, gameplay is well balanced, yada.

From people that make games for a carear, this is the level of production you should expect, unfortunately many fail to ever produce games quite as unique as this. I personaly think this is one of the best games you could spend your money on.

The three HL2 chapters are great and take ages to get through and Portal is really different and makes you think but is not very difficult and is a little short for my liking.

Team Fortress is the best game though and worth the purchase of HL2OB alone.

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