Orange you glad we didn't say Banana?
Look at it. Just look at it.
Everyone loves the set to death. Everyone plays the set to death. A stack of games, well worth the price twice over, and you're not playing them because you're too busy reading my review. Look, HL2 was off the charts, HL2:E1 and HL2:E2 go along and continue on that path, TF2 could be a game entirely by itself in the awesomeness department, and last, but definitely not least, Portal stands head and shoulders above most of the games that have come out in the past 5 years at least.
All great looking games, all great sounding games, all well polished games, all that it's cracked up to be and more. The only reason we're not giving this game a 10 is because we're waiting for a time when the video game actually cooks, cleans, and tells us how special we are. The only reason we're giving it a 9.5 is because it only goes up in increments of .5. So there you go...
You got all you needed to know. It's an amazing stack of games.
There.
Now go get it and play it.