Whether you look at //The Orange Box as one game, three games or five games -- whether you're a newcomer to the series who wants to play it in his living room on a console or a hardened fan who wants the PC experience, there's still no faulting //The Orange Box. If nothing else there's still just an enormous feeling of //value.

//Half-Life 2: Episode 2 is perhaps the most perfect and appreciable of the //Half-Life experience yet. The meaty part of the story, //Episode 2 picks up directly after //Episode 1 and sees Alyx Vance and Gordon Freeman desperately trying to make it to White Forest Base to deliver a message of the utmost importance to the resistance.

The story is brilliantly told and the pace is kept fast so that players are constantly moving, barging through obstacles and knocking foes and trials aside. There is no pause, no relief save those shared between characters at pivotal moments of the plot.