The Orange Box

10.10.2007
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Genre: Shooter Puzzle
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 warfare on the map; and Portal, the game that blends puzzles, first person action, and adventure gaming to produce an experience like no other.
This compilation gathers several of Valve's acclaimed adventures into one collection. At its heart is the saga of scientist Gordon Freeman, who awakens in the oppressive, dystopian City 17, a human society crushed beneath the rule of the alien Combine. Armed with little more than his wits and a crowbar, Freeman becomes an unlikely symbol of resistance, joined by allies such as Alyx Vance and the enigmatic Vortigaunts as their struggle against the Combine carries them from the crumbling city into the surrounding wilderness. The collection also includes a very different tale, in which a lone test subject awakens inside a sterile research facility and must navigate a series of deadly experiments under the watchful eye of a coldly sardonic artificial intelligence known as GLaDOS. Together these stories span desperate rebellion and eerie isolation, offering a sweeping and darkly imaginative journey through Valve's interconnected worlds.

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Half-Life (last 3 games)

23.03.2020

Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Alyx Vance and her father Eli mount an early resistance to the Combine's brutal occupation of Earth.

09.10.2007

Half-Life 2: Episode Two is a first-person shooter set in the aftermath of the Citadel's destruction. Players control Gordon Freeman as he and Alyx Vance travel through forests and underground tunnels toward a resistance base, facing Combine forces and new enemy types along the way. The game emphasizes vehicle-based combat sequences alongside the series' physics-driven puzzles and gunplay.

01.06.2006

Half-Life 2: Episode One is the first of a planned trilogy of expansion packs/episodes for the 2004 first-person shooter game, Half-Life 2. The episode takes place immediately after the end of Half-Life 2, in the war-torn setting of City 17. The player is forced to deal with the effects of their actions during the main game. The episode is a stand-alone game; while a continuation of Half-Life 2, it does not require the original game to be installed or registered to a user's Steam account to play. It takes advantage of several major upgrades to the Source engine since the release of Half-Life 2, primarily its high dynamic range rendering capabilities and the upgraded facial animation system. Episode One was released together with Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, a port of the original Half-Life's multiplayer, which doubles as Episode One's multiplayer component. The retail copies of Episode One also come with Half-Life 2 Deathmatch for those who have not previously purchased the later title.

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Team Fortress (last 3 games)

12.07.2023

The Summer 2023 Update, also labelled as simply Summer, was a major update for Team Fortress 2 that was released on July 12th, 2023. It introduced 14 new maps, 25 new cosmetic items, 10 new War Paints, 6 new taunts, and 20 new Unusual effects in total (12 for cosmetics and 8 for taunts), as well as a new community-created game mode: Versus Saxton Hale.

20.10.2017

The Jungle Inferno Update was a major update for Team Fortress 2 that spanned throughout 4 days, starting on October 16th, 2017 and finally releasing on October 20th, 2017 after a 1-day delay. It introduced 5 new weapons, 5 new community-made maps, 1 new Valve-made map, 7 new taunts, 1 new kill taunt, 49 new cosmetics (though 4 all-class items are currently unreleased), and many rebalances for existing weapons as well as the Pyro class. It also introduced an overhaul to the contract system with the ConTracker, and introduced War Paint in place of weapon skins.

07.07.2016

The Meet Your Match Update was a major update that saw the official release of Competitive Mode matchmaking and PASS Time, introduced Casual Mode matchmaking, four new maps, eight new cosmetic Items, an all class weapon, four new taunts, two achievements, and two startup themes.

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Portal (last 3 games)

30.07.2024

As with previous works from BinkusTheTrinkus such as Half-Life: Google Translate Edition and Portal: Google Translate Edition, Portal 2: GTE aims to take all of the dialogue, text, and developer commentary of Portal 2, put it through several different languages in Google Translate, then put back into English. This fills the base game with a bunch of garbled nonsense that makes it nearly unrecognizable.

08.12.2022

Experience the critically acclaimed and award-winning Portal reimagined with ray tracing in this free DLC for Portal owners. Start thinking with portals, with RTX on.

17.08.2017

On October 22nd, 2008 a port of Portal was released onto the Xbox Live Arcade under the title: "Portal: Still Alive". Outside of being a simple port of the game, it included 14 new bonus maps which were based on Portal: The Flash Version Mappack made by Hen Mazolski. After 9 years, you can now play these levels on PC! The maps have been revamped a small ammount, with generally improved and shaprer lighting across the chambers. As well as this, our mod includes a mockup of the cut ending of the bonus chambers, was the same as the ending of The Flash Version Mappack, except with GLaDOS removed and other minor changes. It also includes the "GLaDOS Voice Map", a level made in 2009 by Hen Mazolski as a proof-of-concept for a GLaDOS voice actor he had acquired late in the development of The Flash Version Mappack, but did not put to use in the mappack. Features List: The 14 “Still Alive” Chambers playable on PC with improved lighting. The Original Flash Version Mappack by Hen Mazolski. “GLaDOS Voice Map” by Hen Mazolski. Cut "Death Cube” texture used in Chambers 3, 4, 6, and 12. Mockup of the cut escape ending of the Still Alive bonus chambers. “Challenge” versions of the 14 chambers, with the original time, footstep, and portal amount values.

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25.09.2020

Humanity is under siege as the full force of Mental’s hordes spread across the world, ravaging what remains of a broken and beaten civilization. The last remaining resistance to the invasion is the Earth Defense Force led by Sam “Serious” Stone and his heavily-armed squad of misfit commandos. Croteam returns with a high-powered prequel to the Serious Sam series that scales up chaos to unprecedented levels. The classic Serious Sam formula is revamped by putting an unstoppable arsenal up against an unimaginable number of enemies that requires players to circle-strafe and backpedal-blast their way out of impossible situations.

25.07.2019

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a brand-new co-op experience from MachineGames, the award-winning studio that developed the critically acclaimed Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Set in 1980, 19 years after BJ Blazkowicz ignited the second American Revolution, Wolfenstein: Youngblood introduces the next Blazkowicz generation to the fight against the Nazis. Play as one of BJ’s twin daughters, Jess and Soph, as you search for your missing father in Nazi-occupied Paris.

24.09.2013

Unleash a fury of powerful weapons as you blast your way through armies of Alien forces hell-bent on taking you down! Battle through 14 intense levels and prepare to face a barrage of beastly-sized bosses that will test your every skill. Each of your 10 weapons comes with two firing modes and you’ll need all of them! Battle hardened Alien forces will attack you from every direction using various flanking and attack moves. Built with powerful up-to-date graphics technology, awesome physics, destructible environments… experience a truly intense, oldschool styled shooter game!Key Features Wide variety of Alien enemy forces including Infantry, Warriors, Flying Drones, Spiders Huge boss fights – Over 21 enemy types including 8 beastlysized bosses to challenge and destroy through 14 Levels Strong thru-the-gun experience with 10 powerful weapons each with two firing modes Skill shots, head shots and shooting accuracy heavily rewarded Player-triggered destruction of environments and cover helps to advance through levels Built with powerful up-to-date graphics technology, awesome physics, destructible environments

21.03.2001

A first person shooter extravaganza where you take the role of Serious Sam, a badass killer whose goal is to defeat monsters commanded by Mental, an extraterrestrial entity that wants to destroy humanity. Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline arcade-action shooter heavily focused on frantic arcade-style single player action. In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy-fiction and advanced technology is mixed with black magic and psycho-powers, Sam travels through the beautiful world of ancient Egypt and several diverse planets, confronting countless Mental's minions on his way to the Mental's base.Key Features Frantic Arcade-Style Action - Fight your way through 15+ nightmarish warriors in Mental's army, including the charging Sirian Werebull, screaming Headless Kamikaze and other crazy monsters, and finally challenge the multi-story Ugh-Zan boss!

13.12.2022

From the mind of Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites) comes High On Life. Humanity is being threatened by an alien cartel who wants to use them as drugs. It’s up to you to rescue and partner with charismatic, talking guns, take down Garmantuous and his gang, and save the world!

11.10.2024

Starship Troopers: Extermination drops up to 16 players right into the fight against the Bug menace in this co-op first person shooter. Suit up and ship out to a far-off front as a Trooper in the Deep Space Vanguard, an elite Special Forces group within the Mobile Infantry. It’s up to squads like yours to battle against hundreds of bloodthirsty insectoid aliens and take back fallen colonies for the Federation. The only good Bug is a dead Bug!

08.02.2024

Helldivers 2 is a cooperative third-person shooter in which squads of up to four players are deployed from orbit onto hostile planets to complete strategic missions. Players select loadouts of weapons, armor, and stratagems that allow them to call in orbital strikes, supply drops, vehicles, and turrets during combat. Friendly fire is always active, requiring coordination between teammates. The game features a persistent galactic war where community-wide performance determines which planets are liberated or lost.

10.02.2009

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is the sequel to F.E.A.R. and continues the series' trademark blend of supernatural horror and suspense. Many mechanics from the original first-person shooter have made their way into the game, like slow motion bullet time, and intelligent AI. New gameplay elements have also been introduced, like grab and drag movable cover, combat mechs, and iron sight aiming. The environments are now more open and less linear than those in the first game, and are also more diverse.

28.10.2022

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II drops players into an unprecedented global conflict that features the return of the iconic Operators of Task Force 141.

30.11.2022

From the developers of the best-selling and award-winning franchise Vermintide, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a visceral 4-player co-op action game set in the hive city of Tertium. Fight together with your friends against hordes of enemies in this new Warhammer 40,000 experience.

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