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The Orange Box Review (continued)
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Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
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ESRB Rating: Mature
Platform(s): Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Date: 2008-11-09
Most worthwhile 30$ a gamer can spend
The orange box comes complete with 3 games, one of those having 2 expansions called episodes. Half 2 and it's two follow up episodes are a lot fun, combining first person shooters with puzzle elements and allowing you to use the innovative Gravity Gun with the Havok Physics engine for an exceedingly fun experience.
Team Fortress II is a fun multi-player shooter with plenty of online applicability.
Portal was declared game of the year by a number of sources so go check it out.
Date: 2008-11-09
How a great game goes bad.
I bought the game from Amazon and dowloaded it. It played perfectly the first time. The next time and ever since it has not played and no one can seem to assit me.
Date: 2008-10-27
Cool game, great deal!
Came as specified in brand new condition. Orange box is awesome, and it's the best deal for the money. I highly recommend it.
Date: 2008-10-17
Meet Satan. His name is Steam
The Orange Box seems like a tremendous value. The atmosphere and play mechanics of Half Life, the frustrating yet still amusing Portal, and the bash and go Team Fortress 2.
But you get another bit of software for free. It's called Steam, and it connects you to the Valve servers. It also needs updating right out of the box, so be prepared for thrills as you sit and wait... and wait...
It's default settings have it run on start up, so it sits in your system tray like a barnacle. You have to change settings to get rid of it.
Thanks for the great games, Valve. Too bad I have to have steam running to play them.
Date: 2008-10-15
Game uses Steam which causes problems
This game uses Steam - a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation.
Some of the problems with Steam:
1. Privacy - steam collects information from users, without notifying the user at the time of collection or offering an opt-out. This leads many people to consider Steam to be a form of spyware.
2. Steam is a worldwide delivery system yet it allows publishers to geographically restrict where a game is available, and at what price. Many people have found that in regions outside the US games are either not available, or are sold at grossly inflated prices compared to the US.
3. To play a game that uses Steam you must connect over the Internet to the Steam website and create a Steam account. So if you are without Internet access you will be denied access to run your game. Also Steam's Internet servers are not guaranteed to be running at all times, so you will also be denied access to your game if their servers are down.
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