acollegestudent

Well the other day I bought a video game package called The Orange Box. I bought it through Steam on my computer and it cost me $30. Well not me, my parent’s. They were nice enough to buy it for me. It includes Half Life 2, Half Life 2 - Episode 1, Half Life 2 - Episode 2, Half Life 2 - The Lost Coast, Peggle Extreme, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. I downloaded and installed them all and at first I ran into a little snag. I’m running Vista Business 64 bit and recently the 64 bit version of Half Life 2 hasn’t been working (waiting for a Valve update to fix this) so I’m running the 32 bit version of the game. Not a problem. Also Portal would crash every time I ran it so I had to disable the opening video (just the Valve logo and what not) before I was able to play it. Well I beat Portal today which was fairly simple but at the same time frustrating >_<

It was really fun though and a truly amazing game. The puzzles were tricky but I figured them out. Now I just have to beat 2 more advanced stages to get another achievement. Achievements are a cool thing that steam does that makes the games more fun. It’s a lot like xbox 360’s where you get achievements. I haven’t played Team Fortess 2 yet but my roommate really likes the game so I might give it a try. See if I can figure it out… :p

Well anyways I just beat Half Life which I bought for 98 cent’s when it was on sale on Steam which was quite a bargin. So now I’m woking on Half Life 2. Should be fun.

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