Preorder The Orange Box get Team Fortress 2 beta access (PC - Steam)

[TLPRIME]

This is my first "deal" post. It's not a huge deal, but you get some cool extras, and I haven't seen it posted yet.

Pre-order The Orange Box from Steam and you get access to the Team Fortress 2 beta that starts 9/17/07.

They also are matching the 10% off that other sellers have been offering.

for $45 you get:

Half Life 2
Half Life 2 Episode 1
Half Life 2 Episode 2
Portal
Team Fortress 2 (with beta access 9/17/07)
and Peggle Extreme (exclusive to this deal)

Also for people that have already bought HL2 and HL2 Episode 1, they are allowing you to give the copies of these games to a friend as a gift.

http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1186&s=0,7,11,469&i=0,10,80,340,100,380,923,3483,220,240&cc=US&skin=3&client=1

*edit* just saw this posted on the PC forum...ah well...I tried

 

[spuffin]

[quote name='BULL_Ship']Don't forget to preload TF2.[/quote]
I purchased it last night but didn't see an option to preload TF2. In my games listing it said it was Not Installed and the availability said something about it not being available (IIRC). Is the pre-load option somewhere else? Granted, I didn't poke around for it because I just assumed we couldn't pre-load the beta (or pre-load ep2/portal for that matter)

 

[MM3_XBOX]

Ordered yesterday as well. Pretty good deal for me, since I've never played HL2, the expansions are a nice plus, and Portal and TFC2 look amazing. I was planning to wait for the 360 version but the price tag here and beta access can't be beat.

 

[Zoglog]

[quote name='SOSTrooper']The gifts are available when the orange box officially releases, which is October 10th.[/QUOTE]

k, thanks. That's kind of wierd considering they make you pay now, they should let you giveout the gifts since those 2 games are already released.

If you preload the TF2, does that auto you into the beta?