The Orange Box From:Valve , Electronic Arts ,
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Amazon Maximum Age: 240 months
Amazon Minimum Age: 204 months
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Valve
EAN: 0014633098525
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Height: 1 inches
Length: 7.5 inches
Weight: 200 hundredths-pounds
Width: 5.25 inches
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Packaged Height: 110 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 15 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows Vista
Platform: Windows XP
Platform: Windows 2000
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 2007-10-09
Studio: Electronic Arts
Feature:
- Characters - Advanced facial animation system delivers the most sophisticated in-game characters ever seen. With 40 distinct facial muscles, human characters convey the full array of human emotion, and respond to the player with fluidity and intelligence
- Physics - From pebbles to water to 2-ton trucks respond as expected, as they obey the laws of mass, friction, gravity, and buoyancy
- Graphics - Source's shader-based renderer, like the one used at Pixar to create movies such as Toy Story and Monster's, Inc., creates the most beautiful and realistic environments ever seen in a video game.
- AI - Neither friends nor enemies charge blindly into the fray. They can assess threats, navigate tricky terrain, and fashion weapons from whatever is at hand
Product Description:
With part 3 of the Half-Life saga in the horizon, this collection brings you from the start so you're ready to take on the third episode of this exciting trilogy. Half Life earns its popularity and reputation at being the first First Person Shooter game to use aq lifelike, realtime plot that pits you in the action as well as behind the trigger. Created by Valve Software, each episode employs advanced technologies for better, more realistic play. In Half-Life, you assume the role of Dr. Gordon Freeman, a recently graduated theoretical physicist who must fight his way out of an underground research facility whose teleportation experimentations have gone awry. The second part of the trilogy of episodic expansions for Half-Life 2, Episode Two picks up where Episode One left off?with Gordon and Alyx traveling out of City 17 and into a vast new environment.
The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people people he cares about are counting on him. Intense, real-time gameplay of Half-Life 2 is made possible only by Source, Valve's new proprietary engine technology
Customer Reviews:
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Haven't played yet but steam seems reasonable., 2008-07-15
Why isn't he orange box a complete 5 star blockbuster? The reason = steam -- you probably know by now by looking at the reviews. The game itself is perfect, the games you get for the price is an absolute steal.
Most people would consider steam a flaw but it's a necessary evil more like. The only flaw is that it is not offline capable straight out of the box, so you'll have to spend a good amount of time updating. But other than that, steam is a magnificent piece of game management. It updates everything for you via bittorrent and allows you access to all your games in one place -- pretty neat if you ask me. And it's free.
Barring unforseen circumstances like loss of internet connections or pirated games, I don't see much reason for anyone to complain. Don't like it? Pay more and buy the games seperately, otherwise get this because the best game ever made along with a bunch of other games for essentially nothing sounds great to me. Wouldn't you agree?
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