Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (PC) Reviews

The Orange Box is easily one of the best games you can get for your money, given how it contains within it five full-length games, yet retails for the same price as most PC games (and can be bought now for about £15)! For anyone wanting to get into the Half Life saga, this is a great place to begin. The games are: Half-Life 2 - the ...  Read the complete review

The Orange Box is a compilation of five Valve games, that was released in 2007. Please be aware that I am only talking about the PC version. Back in 2007, I received this as a Christmas present and I know it was less than £20 at the time. I've found it available new today for just £12.99. This is the kind of deal any gamer should be happy to ...  Read the complete review

Since Team Fortress 2 has been updated alot lately,so i want to do a good review to jusity it. TF2 is a first person shooter, online multiplayer fiasco. Its like Battlefield 2 took some drugs with Walt Disney and then got in a washing machine and set its self to rinse. The graphics, as you can see, are very cartoony, as was the case ...  Read the complete review

The Orange Box is a collection of Valve games featuring Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Ep1, Half Life 2: Ep2, Team Fortress and Portal. Every game in the Orange Box is a success and so i think this has to be the best value for money game package so far. TF2 Features: 9 Balanced classes Humorous cartoony feel and ...  Read the complete review

As I looked at the box of this game i presemed at first this was a dream. Unless this still is this indeed is too good to be true. 5 outstanding games at the price of 1. Half Life 2, Episode 1 and Episode 2 are complimented by the outstanding (online only) multiplayer Team Fortress 2 and genius puzzle game Portal. The games should last you over ...  Read the complete review

Wow wow WOW! What a collection this is! I already had Half-life 2 and episode 1 prior to buying this game but to get episode 2 I bought this box set since if I remember right it was the same price as the single episode 2. This box set includes: Half-life 2 Episode 1 Episode 2 Portal Team fortress ...  Read the complete review

Team Fortress 2 came to our attention not too long ago. It was subject to a wave of high anticipation during the build-up to its release, and in my mind that expectation for a great game hasn't been met. <--What Its About--> TF2 was bought for me a few months ago by a friend who wanted me to get into the game along-side his ...  Read the complete review

When I first heard of the orange box I knew it would be good, who could say no to what are practicly 5 games for the price of one? the topic here is just HL-E2 and TF2 though? I guess they are confused, so I will do a bit about all the games in the Orange box exept Half life 2 and half life 2 episode 1 An important thing to ...  Read the complete review

The Orange Box is a superb collection of games. Firstly Half Life 2 one of the best single player games back in 2004, and it's still is a great game today. Also with the two episodes it extends this game superbly. Both the Half Life 2 chapters are great but I found myself prefering Episode 1 due to the storyline. A new game introduced ...  Read the complete review

Well, where do I begin? I'm sure you've heard all the hyperbole before, and I'm here to tell you that it's all worth it. Every bit. This is a flawless collection built around a flawless game. Half Life 2 delivers on everything that the original brought and offers so much more. I played this on my home PC, with a pretty decent setup, but ...  Read the complete review

I've got a confession to make. A few months ago, I sat here in front of my PC screen and tapped out a review of The Orange Box. I gleefully chatted about the five Valve first-person shooter games collected together in this compilation. I waxed lyrical about the mature storyline of Half-Life 2, the ingenuity of Half-Life 2 Episodes One and Two, the ...  Read the complete review

The orange Box is not just one game but a collection of many. It includes the games; Half life 2 Episode 1 and episode 2 Portal Team Fortress 2 If you already own any of these titles, steam will make a copy of the game you already own so you can send it onto a mate etc. So to begin with, the orange box ...  Read the complete review

I recently picked up this game, and have enjoyed every second of playtime. It really is a gem in the sea of class based multiplayer games, and one of the most definitive parts of it is that you won't succeed with a team of only one or two classes. You need a balanced team, otherwise you're sure to fail. A perfect example of this is a team ...  Read the complete review

Finally, we get a multiplayer shooter without shame. It has many different classes, and while having the classic gory cartoon graphics, it has a charm that you won't get tired of. Examples of classes are the heavy weapons man, when you have a lot of big guns, and the skinny scout who can run super fast, but who doesn't really have the best weapons ...  Read the complete review

After a long wait, team fortress 2 finally arrived and it was well worth it. The original game pushed the boundaries of online multiplayer shooters and introduced us to the class based systems that we see in many games today such as the battlefield and call of duty series. The original game didnt take itself too seriously, and we can see this in ...  Read the complete review

Note: I shan't bother you with all of the computer specification, 'cos that's all on Google... what I'm here for is to offer my insight on the game, and how it actually feels to play. Team Fortress 2, one of the latest games by Valve, is,by all accounts, a first Person Shooter, but not all is not quite as it seems. At first glance at ...  Read the complete review

The original Team Fortress emerged in 1996 as a mod for the game Quake, and was a cult favourite in fledgeling online gaming circles. A couple of years later, a version of the game known as Team Fortress Classic was created using the original Half-Life game engine. To this day, huge amounts of players continue to obsessively play this game on ...  Read the complete review

Having never played the original Team Fortress Classic game I came into this as a complete newcomer to the class system and style of gameplay. However, I was nothing but impressed by the game when playing it over a LAN connection. I will now give a brief rundown of the games features. GAMEPLAY The game plays extremely well ...  Read the complete review

The Orange Box is a collection of source games:- 1. Half Life 2 2. Half life 2: Episode 1 3. Half life 2: Episode 2 4. Portal 5. Team Fortress 2 It also hs 2 extras that you can download via steam (valve's game distribution and anti-piracy software) which are peggle extreme and Half Life 2: Lost ...  Read the complete review

Team Fortress 2 is the highly anticipated multiplayer shooter than has been in development since 1998. So was it worth the wait? Team Fortress 2 is the multiplayer component of Valves Orange Box, as its name suggests it's a team based shooter but it doesn't involve any fort building! (Slightly off topic but for an awesome fort building ...  Read the complete review