Creators of the Half Life game series, Valve, have given us the ultimate gaming collection by putting together all their incredible Half Life 2 games with the end product being The Orange Box. The Orange Box is 5 Half Life games inside one big err… “Orange Box”. The box includes Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode One, Half life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 and Portal. For those of you who are not familiar with Half Life and are not part of the cult following that it has, here is a super quick description to clarify. Players assume the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist destined to save the Earth from a contingent of gruesome aliens that he unleashed upon the world. There you go, I think that has set the storyline pretty well. 

The latest installment of the game is Half Life 2: Episode Two where you dive deeper into Gordon Freemans struggle against the alien Combine where you will be able to leave City 17 for the very first time. This may be a good time to point out that Half Life 2 and HL2: Episode One are the previous installments of the game, just in case you hadn’t worked that out (no sarcasm intended) so make sure you play them first.  

Team Fortress 2 is the follow up to the original Maharajah of role-based online multiplayer games. Featuring nine distinct roles… Heavy, Spy, Scout, Demoman, Engineer, Medic, Sniper, Soldier, and Pyro Team Fortress 2 you are guaranteed to fall deep into the addictive “Vortex” that is online multiplayer gaming. 

Portal is a new single player game set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories. Players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuvering objects, and themselves, through space. This amazing “Orange Box” has absolutely everything you could possibly want in a gaming experience and has been described as the “Bargain of the century” amongst gamers, so make sure that you add it to your own collection.