Valve Complete Pack
Price: $99.99
Availability: Steam
Contents: Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, Deathmatch Classic, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Ricochet, Half-Life, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Portal, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, Peggle Extreme

The world "bargain" can often be abstract. Some consider a bargain to be an item priced at $20, $15, $10 or lower. Valve Software's Valve Complete Pack, which contains some of the greatest games ever made, is $100, but that's still a bargain. If you haven't bathed in Valve goodness yet, there might not be any way to make you see the foolishness of your ways, but I'm sure going to try.


For just shy of 100 bucks, you get 22 games. Of those 22 games, you will receive almost one hour of single-player content for every dollar you spend on this fantastic compilation. In terms of multiplayer, the amount of time you could potentially spend playing TF2, Counter-Strike, HL2 Deathmatch, Deathmatch Classic, and more is staggering. We're talking epic, quit-your-job, sell-your-pets, leave-your-significant-other-before-they-leave-you amounts of time.

What's more, Valve Complete Pack has something for both the hardcore and casual gamer. For your friends and family who don't wish to bathe in FPS awesomeness, show them Portal. It's played from a first-person perspective, sure, but it's no first-person shooter. Convince them to expand their mind with spacial puzzles, have a delicious slice of moist cake, and then kick them off the PC so you can rack up head shots in TF2, bring the world to its knees in Half-Life, relive Quake's glory days with Deathmatch Classic, or hang out with the beautiful and brainy Alyx Vance in Half-Life 2.

Everyone wins, really.