It deserves it, although it's almost unfair to factor in so many good games as one package hehe.

yeah, but that's only with 11 reviews so far.

They cheeeated! You can't put 5 games in one box and charge $60, jerks!

I would love to see each separate game get reviewed. It's basically like rating 5 separate Zelda games or GTA titles and grading them as a whole. I wanna see them as separate scores, personally.

I bought it last night and will play (and surely love) them all, but still. IT'S NOT ONE GAME! DON'T SCORE IT AS ONE! It's a package, sheesh.

The real king of games! yeah i said it......... lol kthxbai

I don't see how Orange Box is getting all this attention. It's just a repackaging of the dated (and not that great, imo) Half-Life 2 w/ episodes, a tech demo(Portal, albeit a cool demo) and a good but limited multiplayer game. I have it but I wouldn't have rated it above 85%.

Portal deserves the accolades and TF2 as well, so far I'm not seeing what's so special about HL2, just a very mediocre FPS with a good story and a pretty physics engine.

I guess their reviewing the entire thing, I would prefer reviews of each game on their merits not a "OMG 5 GAMES IN ONE DISK" *fapfapfapfapfap* because there is no fucking way that a 2004 game with shitty vehicle sequences deserves anything better than a 7.

Pedro The Lion's David Bazan wrote a song called "Second Best" on the album Control. "Second best, oh second best, i can learn to live with this...."

Half-Life 2 alone rapes Halo 3, so this is no surprised. Also, as amazing as BioShock is, I'd have to give the nod to Half-Life 2 as well. BioShock and Half-Life 2 are amazing games. Halo 3 is an overrated pile of shit just like the other two were.

Master Chief? Meet Heavy Weapons Guy... and his Medic.

Halo 3 = generic FPS pile of dogshit for console gamers.

Guess what - 8 hours of single player hardly qualifies as anything near Epic.. and theres much better multiplayer FPS' out there.

For example - TF2.

i guess i'm about the only person in the world who finds single player FPS's to be boring.

i'd give HL1 a 90 - it broke a lot of new ground and was the first good storyline in an FPS game maybe ever.

HL2 was an amazing demo for the physics engine, the story and game other than the graphics and physics bored the hell out of me
HL2 ep1 and ep2 are just more of the same. more hallways. more enemies. more walking and jumping and crawling. but nothing NEW.

portal is another great demo of a concept - but the "game" is a long tutorial, and 1 hour of escape that should have been 5 minutes. the final boss is cool though.

and tf2, another great idea (the stylized graphics) but they are already making it suck (limited server cvars, limited server filters) so that all the servers are exactly the same... and after 100 hours i'm so bored of it i don't want to play it any more.

how do these games score 9.5? i guess the numbers start at 8/10?

I guess I'll be the one olive branch type and point out that the 360 has (at least in the eyes of aggregate critic scores) gotten 3 of the best games out there in the last couple months. And with the stuff still to come out this fall, it is a good time to be a gamer.

Hm, not surprising.