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The Orange Box delivers five innovative games from Valve, creators of the Half-Life franchise, in one box. The Orange Box includes Half-Life 2: Episode Two, PortalTM, and Team Fortress 2 in addition to full versions of the award-winning Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One for an engrossing first-person action experience.
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Product Description With part 3 of the Half-Life saga in the horizon, this collection brings you from the start so you're ready to take on the third episode of this exciting trilogy. Half Life earns its popularity and reputation at being the first First Person Shooter game to use aq lifelike, realtime plot that pits you in the action as well as behind the trigger. Created by Valve Software, each episode employs advanced technologies for better, more realistic play. In Half-Life, you assume the role of Dr. Gordon Freeman, a recently graduated theoretical physicist who must fight his way out of an underground research facility whose teleportation experimentations have gone awry. The second part of the trilogy of episodic expansions for Half-Life 2, Episode Two picks up where Episode One left off?with Gordon and Alyx traveling out of City 17 and into a vast new environment. The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people people he cares about are counting on him. Intense, real-time gameplay of Half-Life 2 is made possible only by Source, Valve's new proprietary engine technology
This package contains: Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2 Episode 1 Half-Life 2 Episode 2 Team Fortress 2 Portal Half Life 2 Anyone who has played and enjoyed first-person shooters on the PC platform knows, and reveres, Half-Life 2. The (at the time) revolutionary physics and graphics set a knew standard that still looks great three years later (and can now be enjoyed by most PC owners on its highest and most impressive detail settings). Fantastic lighting, texture and character design combine with brilliant and varied maps to create a flawless gameworld. Equally impressive, however, was the story and its implementation - carrying on from the events of Half-Life 1, an alien race known as the Combine have enslaved humanity, and you are Gordon Freeman; hero of the resistance. The major breakthrough for storytelling made by this game was that rather than lose control of your character during scripted or prerendered cutscenes, or mindlessly bashing the 'talk' button to interact with NPCs, the dialogue is all seamlessly and spontaneously interspersed with the action. Enter a friendly area and the other resistance fighters tell you a little more about the events going on around you, re-arm and heal you; then send you on your way, for you are a man on a mission, the Freeman. HL2 Eps 1+2 Continue the story of Gordon Freeman and Alyx in two new episodes of the story complete with new enemies, vehicles and updated graphics. Team Fortress 2 A tongue in cheek, team-based, online shooting game with larger than life characters and fast, class based combat with a multitude of strategies available to different team configurations. Very cheeky cartoon-like graphics and general humorous bent throughout. Portal Long awaited 3d physics puzzler, where ones only method of negotiating a series of increasingly hostile environments is by means of a gun that fires a pair of "portals", one an entrance, one an exit, that are interconnected and provide the players means of crossing, for example, pits of spikes, acid lakes, and, apparently, far more devilish imaginings as the games progresses. The portals also change the "direction" of gravity (ie which way is "down") for the player, so one imagines the later levels being pretty fiendish. Imagine a strictly puzzle-based Prey and you get the idea. Conclusion Any one of the games in the orange box is worth buying, even (perhaps especially) the three year old Half-Life 2. Getting all 5 of these titles, three of which are being released for the first time, is a bargain that is simply too good to be missed. Buy it now, before Valve realise their mistake and double the price!
System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Pentium 1.6Ghz 512MB RAM 64MB DirectX 9.0 video card DVDROM drive DirectX 9.0 compatible sound card Keyboard Mouse Internet connection required
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