The Orange Box
The Orange Box is a bundle that includes five titles from Valve: Half-Life 2; Half-Life 2:Episode 1; Half-Life 2: Episode Two; Team Fortress 2, the sequel to the game that put class-based, multiplayer team…
The Orange Box is a puzzle developed by Valve, released 10 October 2007 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux and Mac.
What The Orange Box is
The Orange Box is a puzzle game developed by Valve and released in 2007. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Source.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Orange Box is a video game compilation containing five games developed and published by Valve. Two of the games included—Half-Life 2 and its first stand-alone expansion, Episode One—had previously been released in 2004 and 2006 as separate products. Three new games were also included in the compilation: the second stand-alone expansion, Half-Life 2: Episode Two; the puzzle game Portal; and Team Fortress 2, the sequel to Team Fortress Classic. Valve also released a soundtrack containing music from the games within the compilation. A separate product entitled The Black Box was planned, which would have included only the new games, but was later canceled.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
The Orange Box holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 26 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 90, across 154 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 40 hrs.
What it launched against
The Orange Box launched on 10 October 2007, within three weeks of Portal, Halo 3, The Witcher and Team Fortress 2. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Portal, Halo 3, The Witcher, Team Fortress 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Orange Box yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
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