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What a deal! These may not be "new" games, but they are fun and challenging. The graphics are great. The patchwork is done since they are older games, so they work just fine (just be sure to download the patches). These games are addictive. A number of scenes made me jump (things that go "boo" in the night). Very entertaining. I'm running pentium 4 with XP and Geforce4 and 1GB ram--no problems. If you like first person shooters and haven't experience Half-Life yet, buy this game (buy it used like I did for an even better deal). Enjoy!

Half-Life and all of its mods are great, but not worth 33 dollars. Especially since you can get all those except Half-Life and Blue Shift for free via Steam. All you need to do is buy a half-life cd key and download Steam. Steam then gives you the options of downloading, for free, Counter-Strike, Opposing Force, Team Fortress Classic, plus Day of Defeat, Ricochet, and Death Match Classic. Besides these, there are a lot of third party mods that you can download and put on to steam. Natural Selection has a lot of players and it is third party right now.
Also, it doesnt look like it is any different than the first platinum pack, which was 29 dollars when I bought it a year and a half ago.
I gave it five stars because it is a fun game, just don't buy this pack. Buy Half-Life by its self. Save yourself some money.

I've always been courios about Half_Life and Counter-Strike, and about a week ago, my cousin bout this package, and we played all day. Well, the very next day I went out and bought this, and I still havn't put it down! When you first start playing Counter-Strike, sure, some of the more experenced players will put you down for being a noob (someone new to Counter-Strike, but it's ment to be a strong insult), but after a few games, you'll find yourself getting better and better, and soon, you'll lose hte title of "Noob" "Nub" "Newb" ect. and then you'll really start to have fun. A good idea would be to play with a friend that has played before, especially if he/she has a clan, and then you can just scrim (play pratice games) with them. I play with my friends clan and I see my skill rapidly improving. Also, if you know someone else you just got this game, you could scrim with him.her for a while, and both your skills will improve. But that's not it. Aside from the great gameplay of CS, there's tons of maps to play on, and you can also download and make your own maps. Sure, making a map isn't exactly the easiest things in the world at first, but it just takes pratice. And remember, I havn't even SCRATCHED the surface known as the greatness of CS. Plus you get 4 other games, and these are all COMPLETE games. Half-Life is a great single-player game (I havn't tried multi-player on HL yet) and Opposing force and Blue Shift is a continuation of HL. And finally, you get Team Fortess Classic. Now, I havn't played this yet, but I suspect it to be just as great. Now what are you wating for? Go out there, get this, get ome friends to get this, get together, and SCRIM! Perhaps after you get enough pratice and you become semi-good, you can form a clan (A group of people that play together) and magnify the fun 100 times over!