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Amazon Minimum Age: 204 monthsBinding: DVD-ROM Brand: Valve EAN: 0014633098525 ESRB Age Rating: Mature Item Dimensions: Label: Electronic Arts Manufacturer: Electronic Arts MPN: 09852 Platform: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: October 09, 2007 Studio: Electronic Arts Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: With part 3 of the Half-Life saga in the horizon, this collection brings you from the start so you're ready to take on the third episode of this exciting trilogy. Half Life earns its popularity and reputation at being the first First Person Shooter game to use aq lifelike, realtime plot that pits you in the action as well as behind the trigger. Created by Valve Software, each episode employs advanced technologies for better, more realistic play. In Half-Life, you assume the role of Dr. Gordon Freeman, a recently graduated theoretical physicist who must fight his way out of an underground research facility whose teleportation experimentations have gone awry. The second part of the trilogy of episodic expansions for Half-Life 2, Episode Two picks up where Episode One left off?with Gordon and Alyx traveling out of City 17 and into a vast new environment. The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people people he cares about are counting on him. Intense, real-time gameplay of Half-Life 2 is made possible only by Source, Valve's new proprietary engine technology Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Steam does not require a live internet connection to PLAY games.Yu-jin Chia, While Steam requires a live internet connection to INSTALL the games, one can play the games offline by simply putting the Steam client in offline mode. Additionally, one can turn off the automatic update feature for the games. Steam is by far the best online game distribution system available. Most others require a monthly fee. A steam account is free (no setup fee and no monthly fee). One simply purchases the games desired. Rating:  - DANGER - Do not buy a used copy! Valve won't transfer licencesBeware. A lot of people on here selling "New but opened" copies of orange box are actually selling registered copes and Valve (in their infinte wisdome) refuse to transfer licences from one customer to another (in violation of the "First Sale" doctrine of copyright law). DO NOT BUY a used copy except from an 'authorized valve reseller' (whoever that is, apparently not Amazon, unfortunately). Rating: - great!!Great buy for all who are new to HL2 and those who already have it. You get: HL2: Which I believe is one the best games ever. Nothing more I can say that hasnt already been said. HL2 Episode 1: Fast action and great graphics and gameplay. Not much more to say about this either. HL2 Episode 2: Another fast paced and very intense game. The graphics still hold up and this expansion has less puzzle solving this time which I like alot better. ... Read More Rating: - Orange Box - Insane Deal, Wonderful GamesThe whole notion of sticking all these games together for such an unbeatable price blows me away. Anyhow, as a whole the package, the price, and the games cause my rating to bump up to 5/5 stars but I'd like to break it down by game and review each of them shortly because it is a compilation game. Half Life 2: 5/5 HL2 Episode 1: 3/5 HL2 Episode 2: 3/5 Team Fortress 2: 5/5 Portal: 5/5 Half Life 2: The game picks up what seems to be 15 or so years ... Read More Rating: - best deal5 games in one. EXCELLENT story in the HL2 and 2 add ons. Very cinematic and movielike. FUN FUN FUN |
