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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $27.19
You Save: $12.80 (32%)
New (28) Used (9) from $19.85
Rating:  226 reviews
Sales Rank: 346
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Genre: Shooter Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 9852
UPC: 014633098525
EAN: 0014633098525
ASIN: B000PS2XES
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new, Unopened, factory sealed. Ships USPS First class mail with Del. conf. from Georgia.
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 221 more reviews...
 Game uses Steam which causes problems October 15, 2008
Ferdinand
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Great game and a thick plot that only gets better in Episode 2 October 14, 2008
Brian Brauer
Great game and the graphics are top-notch. Team Fortress 2 is a great multiplayer game and good to have along as HL2 EP2 seemed to be short lived.
Doesn't get any better October 13, 2008
E. Plaga
The HL series is simply one of the best games you can play as a FPS. The Orange Box gives a great package for those who haven't played the ones prior to Episode 2. It's a complete set of HL2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Portal and Team Fortress.
The game looks beautiful and can run on a normal PC with a decent, mainstream graphics card. In this day of DX 10 and dual core processors being the "minimum requirement": it's great having a game series like this look fantastic without requiring a new PC.
This is a must have for anyone who likes a FPS.
Luved it October 7, 2008
Gregory M. Bauman (Cincinnati)
This game pack is great. HL was a tad short but portal makes up for it. Portal it self is worth the price of the orange box.
Good Fun October 7, 2008
Gummy Lions (non tax free NYC)
Good fun, portal was very interesting and mind boggling, which gave a good challenge and made you think outside the box on some instances. TF2 is fun, but as online play goes, it's as fun as the people that plays it, too many immature kids playing it for my taste on the open server. And thinks they're cool, by uttering profanities every other word.
Half Life 2 is ok, didn't care much for the storyline, it just didn't grab me.
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