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The Orange Box is a video game compilation for Microsoft Windows, the Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3. The Windows and Xbox 360 versions were produced and...
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Game Overview

The Orange Box is a video game compilation for Microsoft Windows, the Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3. The Windows and Xbox 360 versions were produced and published by Valve Corporation and released on...

The Good

The Half-Life 2 saga represents some of the greatest shooter gameplay ever made, Portal is a brilliant and humorous puzzle game, Outstanding visual and audio design, An unprecedented value.

The Bad

The frame rate struggles at times and the loading times are a bit long.

The Bottom Line

Once again players assume the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist destined to save the Earth from hordes of gruesome alien attackers. Valve has created a fully realized world in Half-Life 2, with objects and characters that feature accurate physics properties, behaving with the appropriate mass, density, and physical properties of their real-life counterparts. Extremely intelligent computer AI result in enemies that plan, adapt, and respond to the player's actions.

The next-gen console version comes packed with bonuses in addition to the genre-expanding original Half-Life 2 game. Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two add-on levels are also on the disc, as are the stunningly complex puzzle game Portal and the online phenomenon Team Fortress 2.

Game Screenshots

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Character Profiles

Alyx Vance
A member of the resistance against the Combine, Alxy is a skilled hacker who works with Gordon (and on her own) to take down the oppressors.

GLaDOS (Portal)
Also known as: Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System GLaDOS is intensely passive aggressive computer AI in Valve's videogame Portal.

Gordon Freeman
A hero of the Earth resistance formed in response to an alien invasion, Gordon has become a legend in the world of Half-Life.

The Weighted Companion Cube
The Weighted Companion Cube is your only friend in Portal.

Game Features

Half-Life 2: Episode Two -- the second installment in Valve's episodic trilogy advances the award-winning story, leading the player to new locations outside of City 17.

Portal -- a pioneering type of single player action game that rewrites the rules for how players approach and manipulate their environment -- much like how Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun reinvented the way gamers interact with objects in the game.

Team Fortress 2 -- an all-new version of the legendary title that spawned team based multiplayer action games. The game's daring new art style features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date.

ESRB Game Ratings

This game is Rated: Mature
Content is most suitable for persons ages 17 and up. This game is likely to contain violence and blood, suggestive themes, or strong language.

Content Descriptors:

Blood and Gore, Intense Violence