Bang for your buck, The Orange Box will give something you will love over and over again.
The box come with 5 different games.
Haft life 2, episode 1 and two.
Portal, and side story to the haft life universe on the rivals against the Black Mesa doing there own experimentation before the world was destroy.
and Team fortress 2, which a remake of one of the first muiltplayers that had came and went in video gaming history.
Since Haftlife2 and Episode one had already been out but just added to the game, Episode two is what i will be reviewing.
So Episode two start off after the events of haft life two episode one. Gorden Freeman, your scientist turn warrior dude to events unfolded at the Black Mesa experiments with transportation that gone very wrong. woke up in the weak train you escape in from city 17 after it blew up. After getting out and getting your trusty gravity gun back, you go on through the map, where you shortly fine out that the combine( Your alien foe who defeated humanity in seven hours, wish we had the power to do that with Iraq don't you think?.) Are getting back on what you done to there base and there heading to a human base at( I forget what it was called.) White mountain or something like that. Knowing that it was there last chance of getting there own main teleporter back online to there home world for reinforcement, but the base your getting to so you can protect, it has a missile that could stop that.
The game has a right balance of getting all your weapons fast to you early in game, a good vehicle sequence, game play and fighting that makes this very fun to do over and over again. Every part of the map and area give something new and exciting to do and not hardly repaveatve even at the last part of the game. and great shockers too, it definitely pave the way for Episode Three to take place.
Portal, which is actually part of haft life universe, take place in an unknown test area underground fill with chambers with tests and such. you awake, not knowing who or where you are, with an AI voice specking to you and watching every action from video cameras.
The AI doesn't even know what has happen as of late outside, so it following poratcall and commending with the tests.
You are quickly united with a knock off to the gravity gun, the Portal gun, which created wormholes in wall as an entrance and exit point.This give a new great way for doing puzzles. tests that included getting doors open, passing through object to get to where you need to go, even avoiding gun turrets, plasma balls from Haft life, and toxic waste.
Some test even force you to used the portal gun effects from jumping to move on like falling through a portal on the ground and flying out from another to get past though walls. and doing a short of stair jumping with portals.
Although it very fun, after one run, it just way too easy after to do it again. the puzzles you had done you will know how to do again without any difficulty with getting the right shots off anymore( except a few key areas.)
so a bit of disappointment but it still always fun to play.
Team fortress Two is a cartoonist militarily look( Don't get me wrong, it still very fun and clever.) That make it unique to muiltplayer.
It kinda hard to explain the game such a way, so i just copy the review from the main review from game spot. Jeff got it spot on.
"The thing that makes Team Fortress 2 so special is its graphical style. Rather than going with the ultrarealistic military look that's still all the rage these days with the kids, TF2 has an over-the-top, cartoonish design to it that starts with the great-looking characters. They're really well animated, and each class just has a ton of personality. The level design holds up its end of the bargain, with a visual style that occasionally reminds you of old Road Runner cartoons with their rocky, Southwestern styles."
By Jeff Gerstmann, GameSpot
Hoply i don;t get ban from doing that, I love Gamespot :-)
The only thing i didn't like about TF2 was it lagged servers. i have great internet so it not me. very hard to get good server with hardly any lag at all.
Anyways, with 5 games that the Orange Box has to offer. it deffinarty got somthing for everyone and will be with my collectemn for years to come.
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