The Orange Box - More Info on Separate Titles, Plus Boxshots

March 14, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Digital Distribution, First Person Shooter, Press Releases, Release Dates, Screenshots, Steam

EA decided to slice the Orange Box up and sell Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2: Episode 2 and Portal as separate titles. Today, The official press release from Valve confirms all of that. Including previously reported pricing ($19.99 for Portal, $29.99 for HL2:EP2 and Team Fortress 2) another interesting thing to note is that Half Life 2: Episode 2 won’t be a separate title. Instead, it will include Half Life 2 : Episode One as well as Half Life 2: Deathmatch and will be called Half Life 2: Episode Pack. In case you already own these titles, you can gift them to others via Steam. Full press release and official boxshots after the jump.

Box Shots:

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Valve, creators of Half-Life® 2 and Counter-Strike®, today announce the retail launch dates for the stand-alone, PC versions of Team Fortress® 2, PortalTM, and the Half-Life 2: Episode Pack are April 9th in North America and April 11th around the globe.

Portal - the unique single player game that mixes puzzle, adventure and first-person action - is expected to retail for approximately $19.99. Portal has been named Game of the Year by over 30 publications worldwide and earned 40 more awards for special achievements in game design, writing, and music (”Still Alive” by GLaDOS and Jonathon Coulton).

Team Fortress 2 (TF2), the sequel to the game that put team-based, multiplayer gaming on the map, is expected to retail for approximately $29.99. TF2 has been named Multiplayer Game of the Year by Gamespy.com, PC Gamer magazine, and other leading media outlets. This retail version, like all PC versions of TF2, includes the recently released Badlands map and the ability to receive auto updates via Steam® including the upcoming release of Goldrush, a new gameplay mode and map that combines the escort style gameplay of Hunted with the timed attack and defend gameplay of Dustbowl.

The Half-Life 2 Episode Pack - which includes both of the award winning new episodes for the highest rated and best selling first-person action franchise of all time, plus Half-Life 2 Deathmatch for online play - is expected to retail for just $29.99. As was the case with The Orange Box, customers who already own one of these titles will have the ability to conveniently “gift” the game via Steam to a friend.