Portal = Joy!

 

The only game in Valve’s seminal The Orange Box to be most neglected by me, has to be the highly regarded puzzle adventure ‘Portal’.  I don’t feel good about this, but am so happy that I gave it a proper go now – as in my opinion its pure genius. 

 Simply giving the player the ability to shoot portals in walls and then figure out how to use this device to get from A to B, proves so brain-bending but fun at the same time.  Now add to this the rather funny computer guiding you through the levels, and the game just has so much personality.  All I really want now that I have completed it (and may I add…it has the best boss-showdown EVER!!) – I need downloadable levels to give me my Portal fix.  Get to it Valve!!!!!!

In related news….I have been playing ‘Team Fortress 2′, and although it isn’t quite Call Of Duty 4, this again full of personality online multiplayer shooter has a cell-shaded ‘cartoon’ look which is very appealing to me, and is a class-based game, so u have to pick a character at the beginning who has unique weapons and purpose compared to the others.  The game types aren’t your usual Death Match, Team Death match (which I think this game would kick ass with!) but more ‘capture points’ etc and ‘Capture The Flag’ which normally doesn’t appeal (and is still a bit lost on me now).  But I have had some good fun – especially because the weapons are great – which, if you’re a gamer, is where its really at.