The Orange Box review

Orange you glad it's so frikkin' good?

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Pros

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    Five amazing games

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    Only sixty dollars

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    Need we repeat ourselves?

Cons

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    Finding time to play them all

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    Striders...they reeeeeal bad

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    Does not include a kitchen sink

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Oct 9, 2007

You can't get much for sixty bucks these days. Dinnerand a moviefor two?Perhaps.A pair of jeans?Maybe one leg.Sothere's no way five incredible games, all worthy of individual purchase, would be available for that low, low price, right?

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You poor naive fool, says Valve, how wrong you are. Their Orange Box is finally here, and its five bigsections - Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, Portal, Half-Life 2, and Half-Life 2: Episode One - are all juicy, delicious, and priced to sell.We've bitten into all of them,so have a taste:

Half-Life 2: EpisodeTwo review
The latest chapter in Dr. Freeman's unusual career is as thrilling as ever.

Team Fortress 2 review
The onlinemultiplayer shooter with the face of Pixar and the heart of Schwarzenegger blows shit up and looks really cute doing it.

Portal review
This first-person, physics-bending puzzleristerrific, hilarious, and over too fast.

Half-Life 2: Episode One review
Way better than The Phantom Menace.Just way better.

Half-Life 2 review
We won't judge you if you haven't played it.But there's always been an empty place in your soul, hasn't there?

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