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It’s also available for PC and plays really quite well on there too, but I’m talking about the xbox360 version here.
This is great value as it is 5 games on one disc and buying pre-owned it is quite cheap.The orange box features Half-life 2, Half-life 2: Episode One, Half-life 2: Episode Two, Portal and the sequel to the classic Team Fortress, Team Fortress 2.
The games are fun as I am a big fan of the half-life series and the easy game play but the complex seeming story lines really captured me.
Being introduced to Portal was extremely fun mainly because of the portal gun that you can control.
I enjoyed Tem Fortress 2 but as I didn’t have xbox live at the time i couldn’t get all the benefits.
Sometime in your lifetime you will have had to have heard of Half-life or Half-life 2, so you will probably be able to grasp the concept of the latest game in the series.
Half-life 2: Episode Two picks up where you left off in Half-life 2: Episode One, but if you haven’t played or finished Half-life 2: Episode One then that’s there for you to learn what’s been happening to Gordan Freeman (the main character and who you play as in the half-life series) and Alex Vance (Gordans friends daughter).
In Portal you play as a test subject trying to test newly developed ways to get around and benefit people……. APART FROM THE ONES THAT ARE DEAD! That last line is part of the portal ending song “Still Alive”. Anyway You must go through some easy and difficult puzzles with the “Portal Gun” which shoots blue and orange portals. The way it works is you jump though the blue portal and Viola you appear out the orange portal or vice versa.
In Team Fortress 2 (or TF2 for short) you choose what class you are out of these 9: Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy Weapons guy (or heavy for short), Egineer, Medic, Sniper and Spy while you battle with other players either over system link or xbox live. You can play alone but then theres noone to fight with.
The ambush is my favourite bit of HL2 Episode 2. What happens is you and Alex Vance are on your way to White Forest, Black Mesa’s brother. The road you are driving is windy and you are about to pass the White Forest inn hotel when suddenly… BOOM!
You hit a force field and have to take cover in The White Forest Inn to avoid being killed by Hunters (little mechanoids that shoot Flechettes at you) and have to fight your way out.
My Favorite part of HL2: Episode One is when you have to escape city 17 on a train. It goes like this: you and Alex have just finished escorting survivors to trains and about to board your own.
Unfortunately there is a roller door blocking the way. You find the wheel that opens it and your about to run through yourself when wouldn’t you know it there’s a strider standing there. It then proceeds to blow the wheel up, so you have to run around and up freight containers to find a way to destroy it, so you can meet up with Alex and escape city 17.
My favorite part of HL2 is when you get the organic gravity gun which is so powerful i t can pick up human enemies and even hold balls of pure plasma. The sheer power from this thing is what makes me love that particular part so much.
My favorite part of portal is when you have to defeat GlADoS, the robot that controls most of the aperture science labrotories because she is about to flood the chamber with deadly nuerotoxins that she claims to be able “to eat this stuff on cereal”.
The creators of these five excellent games is valve.
In summary the XBox 360 The Orange Box Is A really cool game that I recommend that you play todau.
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