What is your opinion of The Orange Box?

Im considering getting it, what is your overall opinion of it? Is the story good? Also how easy is it to find a game in Team Fortress 2?

from what ive heard the framerate only gets bad in one or two parts of the game, is that true? If so thats no big deal.

But Im mostly looking to see what you guys think of the rest of the game, framerate stuff aside.

So far I've tried HL2, TF2, and Portal, and they're all great and run really smooth. It's weird, so far I haven't seen any hitches in HL2, and I've been in that hoverboat-river-sailing part in the comparison vids, and my game hasn't chugged or slowed down. Tho, in some parts HL2 is BORING, and the story doesn't make much sense (jst like Halo's storyline...they make good use of cutscenes, but sometimes you just don't kno wat's goin on), leaving you with a bland taste in your mouth after you finished playing for the day. TF2 is VERY fun, and yeah, there's an automatic search engine that finds servers for you, and so far it looks pretty populated. You may start off with a server with just 2 ppl, but before you know it, ppl are joining like crazy, and you can have up to 7-8 (not sure wat are the caps) players on each team. Also, TF2 is pretty easy to pick up and play, and it's VERy quick to put you in the game - and, whaddya kno, teh stat-tracking is instant, unlike Warhawk's stat-tracking where it takes forever to upload. And, for Portal, well, it's prolly the best puzzle game I've played, and surprisingly I found it very trippy (yet still very much playable), even tho I set myself off with knowing what to expect before buying the orange box. Still, the loading in-game is a bit long sometimes (so far around 20 secs is the most loading I've experienced), and the loading outside of the game (I'm thinking the 360 version is the same) is identical (because first, you load the menu which brings you to your 5 games to choose from, and THEN you load the game - kinda annoying). Buy the game, but I still haven't played the other HL2s to tell u wat to expect from that...The game is worth buying with HL2,TF2, and Portal alone, and the package isn't just great because of how many great games you're getting, but because at least 3 outta the 5 games are rly fun (HL2 mite get more fun, who knows). BUy it.

thanks this has been informative for me.

glitch2424, so you haven't played episode one or two yet?

only thing holding me back from getting the game is the framerate problems.. but i heard they were alright so i might get itArsenal325

Coming from a person who isn't afraid to criticize something, the framerate is fine. This is the best value this generation. Don't miss out on it. Every game in the bundle is outstanding.

Framerate only slows down in Episode 2 mostly. Sometimes in Episode 1.

But I have been playing through, and all of HL2 was fine. Any slowdowns are very bearable, and don't ruin the experience. I highly recommend getting this game, it is a great value.

PS. They may release a patch to fix long load times and framerate issues. They already have a STEAM forum dedicated to the bugs in the PS3 version, so hopefully they make the patch quick!