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Portal, HL2:Episode 2, and TF2

Shawn McHenry — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:46:34 +0000

Well. I got the Orange Box for Christmas and I beat both Portal and Episode 2. I loved them both, Like aways, A great job by Valve. I am no review writer, But heres my thoughts.

Half Life 2 : Episode 2 was great. I learned a lot more about the story and it was much longer than the short HL2:EP1. It was reasonably long enough to captivate my attention and the puzzles and difficulty were Hard, but Challenging to the degree where you want to keep playing. The new Jeep vehicle was awesome and well, yeah. I can't say much more without Spoiling it. Great Graphics, Awesome Game play and Alyx is still hawt!

Portal was also great. Its short, But fun and you can download maps for it (http://myaperturelabs.com/ for example). It was challenging and fun. I really think they did a great job with the puzzles and etc. A few of them took me awhile to figure out. A lot of flinging, Turret Grabing, Running, Precision and Brainpower. Which is perfect. Portal has a lot of Potential and some surprising details come out of it too.

Awesome

deckard47 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:44:00 +0000

I just finished Episode 2, and I have to say, that was one of the coolest final battles I have ever seen in a game, very epic. Also, the ending (ooooh, secret!) was great, Valve really beats everybody else when it comes to meaningful storytelling. Well, I guess it's time to go fill out those achievements. How long till the next one?

Sunday Fun

deckard47 — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:43:00 +0000

So I beat Portal yesterday (awesome), but I am still working through the bonus missions, the last bonus mission is crazy hard. I'm a chapter into Ep. 2, and it is as awesome as I hoped it would be. Finally, this comic amuses me, especially the strip in the link. Portal review might be up soon? Dunno.

I'm Back

deckard47 — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:12:00 +0000

So now that the imperial oppressors here have let me use the internet again, I can post an update. The Bioshock review should be up some time today, so that should be fun, I guess. Oh, and I hate that there were two huge bugs in Portal and Ep. 2 (I couldn't hear any voices!), but I love that Valve patched it in about 2 days. Good for them. Oh, and Portal rocks, it'll just be nice to hear the voice now. Episode 2? Holy shit, I'd forgotten what a great game world Valve has created. I'll be doing that for a while, see you there.

Also, happy birthday to Will, I would buy him a drank, but I can't right now.