The orange box must be the biggest bargain in gaming history. It contains five of the finest FPS games that have ever been made for the price of a normal release. Even for those like me who already had HL2 and HL2:Ep1 it is still a must buy.
And the sweetest slice of the whole cake is Portal. Without doubt the finest gaming experience I have had in an age. It will be lauded as a classic I have no doubt. It reminds me just how unbelievably awesome the original HL was when it came out. (Until you got to Xen anyway.)
Here is a game which can make you care deeply for an virtual inanimate object. It has a baddie who you really do love to hate because, despite her nutjob passive aggressiveness, she is the funniest thing I can remember encountering in a game. All the way to the end, an absolute pitch pefect gag in everything she says. It has a learning curve that is perfectly tuned so that you do not even notice what a multi-dimensionally spacially aware genius it has turned you into, you just use your new skills to make a break for freedom. The plot ends before it outstays its welcome with scenes that made me elated and a final reward that makes me smile from ear to ear just thinking about it now.
Anyone that did not love it would be someone I could not love. (Except maybe Jan, who I imagine would be trying suppress motion sickness induced vomitting and laughter to such an extent that lumps would emerge from his nostrils and anyone in that state would be a little hard to love.
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And the sweetest slice of the whole cake is Portal. Without doubt the finest gaming experience I have had in an age. It will be lauded as a classic I have no doubt. It reminds me just how unbelievably awesome the original HL was when it came out. (Until you got to Xen anyway.)
Here is a game which can make you care deeply for an virtual inanimate object. It has a baddie who you really do love to hate because, despite her nutjob passive aggressiveness, she is the funniest thing I can remember encountering in a game. All the way to the end, an absolute pitch pefect gag in everything she says. It has a learning curve that is perfectly tuned so that you do not even notice what a multi-dimensionally spacially aware genius it has turned you into, you just use your new skills to make a break for freedom. The plot ends before it outstays its welcome with scenes that made me elated and a final reward that makes me smile from ear to ear just thinking about it now.
Anyone that did not love it would be someone I could not love. (Except maybe Jan, who I imagine would be trying suppress motion sickness induced vomitting and laughter to such an extent that lumps would emerge from his nostrils and anyone in that state would be a little hard to love.