The Orange Box was bought after I traded in another game, I'd never initially think about buying this game for full price but after playing it, I disagree qith my earlier opinion. Instantly I would have said, quality over quantity because there are 5 games on this one disc... but quality and quantity are evenly matched. I'd heard about Half-Life on the PC but never being a huge PC gamer, I'd never got around to playing it and although this is the scond it doesn't matter as the storyline and gameplay is definately worth full value anyway. Among having 1 full game and two added parts which combined adds up to an immense amount of gameplay ...  Read the complete review

Half Life 2: The Orange Box is one of the best value games you will ever play. There are five games in total included in this package each one of them a gem. There are a few minor problems but at this price it's an amazing deal. Half Life 2 is one of the best first person shooters I have played. I believe it was the first of the modern shooters as we know them. Its use of physics was ground breaking when the game launched and it still holds up today. The gravity gun weapon is possibly one of my favourite weapons in video games. The story in this game is great. You play as the silent protagonist Gordon Freeman as you try to survive against the ...  Read the complete review

I was extremely fortunate to purchase this game from play.com for the tiny price of £11.99. I could have been considered as something as a half life 'noob' before buying this pack. I'm usually not a fan of First Person Shooter games. I normally think that they are mindless and repetitive. After the huge amount of hype surrounding these games (and the excellent price point) I decided to take the plunge and give it a go. I've got to give alot of respect to the makers of this game (Valve I think), because unlike pretty much every other developer, they like to reward their customers by giving lots of bonus and back catalogue games with the latest ...  Read the complete review

In 2007, Valve Corporation released a compilation of 5 games on one disc, The Orange Box. With Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 episode 1, Half-Life episode 2, Portal and Team Fortress. It was a bargain price to pay to play the cracking Half-Life 2. A journey and adventure with lots of questions and enemies. Get ready to explore! Story: Back history: Gordon Freeman, a scientist at the Black Mesa Research Facility, located in a place called City 17, and other scientists accidentally cause an inter-dimensional instability known as a resonance cascade, when doing an experiment on an alien crystal sample goes wrong. Aliens entered through the rift and Freeman fights ...  Read the complete review

You may be familiar with a critically acclaimed series of games called Half-Life. It was made by a developer called Valve. Their first game was Half-Life. Critics said that it 'revolutionised the FPS genre' and it hasn't aged at all. Since then, Valve has made several more fantastic games. So, they've decided to package five of these games onto one CD, and called it 'The Orange Box'. It is available on PS3, PC and Xbox 360. Here is my review of the PS3 version. * * * First of all, there's Half-Life 2. It's even better than its predecessor, and people have gone as far as calling it 'the best game ever'. That comment is, arguably, quite ...  Read the complete review