I would buy the orange box just for team fortress 2 and potal, but it gives even more.

User Rating: 9 | The Orange Box PS3
By wotchadec | Review Date:
The orange box is a 5-in-1 game, featuring Half life 2, half life 2 ep 1 & 2, team fortress 2 and portal. Half-life 2 and it's episodes were a little hard for me, but they still keep me addicted for hours. However, it is the other 2 games featured in the orange box that I wish to talk about for now.
Team Fortress 2 is an online FPS - Purely online. It has brilliant gameplay, as do most online games. It's a shame that it features only 5 maps, most of the time only 2 being selected in online modes. Despite this, it offers an amazing amount of gameplay. The cartoony graphics aren't everybody's taste, but it's quite comical to see somebody set alight when you cook them to death with a flamethrower. The weapons in the games can be accessed through certain classes, some having certain powers. For example, a spy has the ability to disguise as the enemy and sneak past unnoticed. Some have more powerful weapons, but are noticeably slower or weaker in armour, or ranged. But classes offer an amazing range of originality for all FPS, allowing you to shape what kind of gamer you are. Whether you prefer to go hell for leather and blow up everything that moves, or prefer to sneak past quietly and take the enemy from the backlines.
But perhaps the best game in the orange box, portal, is a puzzle game that is not only highly addictive, but highly original. The basic setting is that you wake up in a science lab which has levels, and in order to get to the next level you must use a portal gun to shoot portals to access other parts of the levels without dying, or accessing other parts of levels. There's an amazing amount of things you can do with the portals, like creating "never ending holes" and shortcuts throughout levels. The levels, ofcourse, get progressively harder, introducing switches and enemies to the game. The gameplay is, like team fortress 2, excellent. The visuals are pretty good, sounds are ok, and themes are excellent if you love those "Robots gone wrong" genres. Overall, the orange box offers a wealth of gaming, and is brilliant value for money. If, like me, you have never played any of the games featured in the orange box, this is an essential. Even if not, the 2 games team fortress 2 and portal are worth the money on their own.

Gameplay - 10
Visuals - 9
Sound - 8
Value - 10
Tilt - 9

Overall - 9

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