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PC Orange Box busted open at retail

By Tom Magrino, GameSpotPosted Mar 13, 2008 2:08 pm PT

Unbundled versions of Valve's award-winning Portal, Team Fortress 2, and Episode Pack for PC available April 9 in NA, April 11 globally for $19.99, $29.99, respectively.

Gamers who have any interest at all in playing Valve's smash hit The Orange Box have nothing if not options when it comes to picking up the title. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions notwithstanding, the PC version of The Orange Box can be picked up in all its five-game compilation glory through any number of brick-and-mortar shops, and it is also distributed through Steam, Valve's online digital distribution portal. Steam users are also able to download the award-winning shooter piecemeal, or gift any already-owned components to other Steam users.

Adding one more method of dissemination to the proceedings, Valve distribution partner EA said in February that it would be busting up the PC version of The Orange Box into its individual components for retail distribution as well. Today, Valve revealed unbundled versions of Portal, Team Fortress 2, and Half-Life 2: Episode Pack for the PC will land at retail on April 9 in North America and April 11 everywhere else in the world.

The Game Developers Choice Award-winning Portal will retail for $19.99, while Team Fortress 2 and the HL2: Episode Pack will run for $29.99 a piece. In addition to the first two episodes of Half-Life 2, the Episode Pack will contain Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, and Valve notes that any game already owned from the package can be gifted to a friend via Steam. All three packages operate as stand-alone products, and do not require the original Half-Life 2 to play.

81 Comments

  • bletzinger

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 5:28 pm PT

    Teamfortress is one of the greatest multiplayer games. Love to play it! Meet bunch of friends too. Gameplay is great and so are graphics

  • gamerkingg

    Posted Apr 27, 2008 5:37 am PT

    Me with my spade=you with the cracked head

  • Ratpads

    Posted Apr 18, 2008 4:47 pm PT

    heavy + medic ftw

  • beer_tree

    Posted Mar 27, 2008 4:59 am PT

    Idk about this game. The graphics look too cartoon like but everyone says the Gameplay is great.

  • typeRseries

    Posted Mar 19, 2008 2:11 pm PT

    i bought orange box for 25 bux at best buy on black friday...damn tats cheap

  • markevens

    Posted Mar 17, 2008 5:21 pm PT

    @ 42scarecrow
    Portal is well worth 20 bucks, if even for the 4 awesome hours of the first playthrough. There are also the advanced maps, challenge maps, as well as plenty of awesome user made maps now online.

  • ratix2

    Posted Mar 17, 2008 11:05 am PT

    ghost867:

    yeah, the most well balanced, easily picked up, kick ass hella fun multiplayer game ever released and its not worth $30. sorry, but for all the hours ive put into it its damn well worth $50, not to mention that valve DOES have plans to give the game massive content updates over the course of the year and even beyond that FOR FREE, as well as having a quite large modding/mapping community (thanks in part to hl2 having the second largest modding community in history, second only to the orginal half lfie, but mostly due to the fact that its a kick ass game) and you can say the game doesent have enough content?

    sure, only 7 maps, but so what? most games have 20+ maps at start, but only 2 or 3 of them are any good/worth playing. all of tf2s maps on the other hand are quite good, some better than others no doubt but they are all maps that are of high quality. not to mention that many of the control poing maps are varations on the game mode instead of exactly the same thing every map, so while its a similar game mode its also not the same for every map.

    tf2 is VERY MUCH worth $30 by itself, however, considering what you get for $50 with the orange box, that is a much better deal.

  • Grandstream

    Posted Mar 17, 2008 8:32 am PT

    I rented these on 360. The Half Life series along is worth it. The game's got over 90+ achievements, all that stem from doing little things in the game...TF2 looks pretty fun, and then Portal is just mind boggling...Half Life 2 is awesome though. Enough that I wanna play through it again and try to do even better. Now, I feel like I wanna wait until the price on the 360 version drops to 40, 45 bucks before I buy it.

  • 42scarecrow

    Posted Mar 17, 2008 1:43 am PT

    Theres no point getting any of these separate. May as well pay the extra 20-30 to get all 5.

    Also, portal for $20 a ripoff for a game that could never last anywhere near 10 hours.

    I would pay more for tf2, coz its the game that your gonna spend the most time playing.

  • apoxps2

    Posted Mar 16, 2008 5:41 pm PT

    TF2 is the ****

  • napp123

    Posted Mar 14, 2008 6:25 pm PT

    Tf2 is worth $30

  • ghost867

    Posted Mar 14, 2008 4:47 pm PT

    Portal for $20? Sounds good. HL2: Episode 1 & 2 for $30? Sounds good. Team Fortress 2 for $30? I'm sorry, but unless they really beef up the content or the quality on that game, it so just isn't worth it. The game was not that good, and way to limited for it to be a $30 game by itself. $20? That's perfect, maybe even $25. But $30? That's just asinine.

  • owman

    Posted Mar 14, 2008 3:16 pm PT

    EA must die.

  • nate1222

    Posted Mar 14, 2008 2:50 pm PT

    I'll probably get 'Portal' for the PC. The others look good, but Portal is what sells it. The fact that I won't need HL2 to install it is nice. I haven't used my Steam account in months, though. I hope like Hell they don't require it to install Portal. 'Cause, I can't remember my damn password.

  • xmg0

    Posted Mar 14, 2008 1:29 pm PT

    noice

  • MronoC

    Posted Mar 14, 2008 10:25 am PT

    while there releasing new packs, why not just release the black box?

  • thisranks

    Posted Mar 14, 2008 10:20 am PT

    I got The Orange Box first day release for the PS3. Today, i saw the PC version at Wal-Mart. After seeing the above article, glad i made my original purchase, and didn't get the itch to buy the above mentioned BS.

  • jknight5422

    Posted Mar 14, 2008 8:43 am PT

    If HL2 didn't make me sick to my stomach when I tried to walk around in its FPS game environment, I'd probably have bought a copy.

  • ColdfireTrilogy

    Posted Mar 14, 2008 7:21 am PT

    I wish they wouldve had the black box from the start like they originally planned... I still havent found anyone worthy of having my extra copy of HL2 yet and that is frustrating.

  • joestierman

    Posted Mar 14, 2008 5:05 am PT

    You can also D/L it through steam for the same price as listed here.

    Personally, I liked the black friday sale, where I got Orange Box for $25!

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