The Orange Box (PC/PS3/360)

[Wools]

Just completed Episode 2 over the weekend. It really has become one of my favourite games ever made. It has the best acting, art, audio and level design in any game.

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The ending of Episode 2 with Eli dying is possibly the hardest to watch death scene in any game. Absloutly horrible to watch and brilliantly acted. When he say's "...close your eye's honey", I nearly blubbed.

[Spatial]

I didn't because I honestly, honestly thought that at any moment

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Dog or something else was going to burst in and save the day.

And then when no one did I was all like OMG!!!!

[ascender]

Just about at the end of the Strider levels and this game just keeps getting better and better. One of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.

[ascender]

Meant to say, I found another level-stopping bug in the game. In City 17 there's a point where Gordon has to get to a certain location and then be joined by a NPC. But in this game I played, the NPC never gets there and ends up getting trapped behind some scenery meaning a section doesn't play out.

Strange that there's now been two points like this which weren't picked up in testing.

[rmoxon]

There was a point at the very end of episode 2 where i sank into the ground and got stuck, I think I actualy got stuck under a certain character, was slightly annoying anyway as i had to watch most of the ending of the game again.

[dogen]

[mr_woo]

That is the best thing i've ever seen. Me want one.

Where'd you get it ?

[dogen]

Here's where I came across it. Delicious Cake

Translastion tells us a fan of Portal made it.

[Malc]

How do I get my hands on one of them cubes! I wan't one bad, is anyone selling them or not?

[angelx]

That is lovely, i would like a few of those!

[EvilBoris]

Just got to the end of Portal, twas brilliant. That is all

[jim g]

I have played HL2, EP1 and EP2 this week, all to completion. All I can say is WOW!.

Halo 3 still gathers dust whilst this was getting played. EP3 can't come soon enough, hopefully it will be on 360.

This whole package is the deal of the year!

[Ian(not Ian)]

Stuck on 18/19 on Portal.
No I don't want to know how to do it.

[merf]

never touched a HL game before and its brilliant, it just feels so clever and logical and I love the way the story is drip fed to you.

i had a couple of trys on launch of Halo 3 (having played the other 2 as well) but have to say its not a patch on Half Life.

can see what all the fuss is about now.

[Dogg Thang]

Wow you guys who had to wait ages for Ep1 back in the day must have been pretty gutted by HL2's ending, or lack of.

What I did really like was

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that I had spotted the guy with the briefcase a few times during the game. The first time I wasn't even sure I had seen him. Very well placed and had me wondering about him without getting in the way. A nice touch.

Not a bad game. Very much Half-Life 2 which I guess is simply what I should have expected but it had been built up by the hype at the time.

Yeah, I felt the storytelling and definitely main character motivation was pants and where they found themseves at the end only reinforced that but the game is a decent old-style corridor FPS (and by old style I mean 'Half Life' style which was cuttng edge in its day). Has some enjoyable sections certainly.

Love that cushion cube thing. I like Portal. It's cool.