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Its story revolves around the pre-GlaDOS epoch, even before she was plugged in. At this time, test subjects were monitored by real Aperture Science employees, whose work was tedious, lengthy and repetitive. This is why they decided to build a great artificial intelligence that could both replace them in these difficult tasks, and also take responsibility for many other tasks within the complex and compete with Black Mesa’s superiority. All employees of the Aperture Science complex are now eagerly awaiting GlaDOS. Maybe even a little too eagerly…

This game is totally free and set to be released somewhere around the end of september 2008. It offers a bit more gameplay hours than the original Portal, with 8 chapters, 48 challenges, 6 advanced maps, a brand new storyline and more than 400 lines of speech with english and french subtitles.
-http://www.portalprelude.com/

Portal. And the lack of cake.

If you haven’t heard of Portal, I seriously feel for you. You have led a seriously deprived life. It is a fun, interactive game that makes you think to solve puzzles, while led along by GlaDOS.

Upon hearing of this prequel, my excitement knew no bounds! More fun, more games, and more hours spent in Aperture Science Labs. The game is set to be released soon-ish, and it is a complete game, not just a map-pack, so I have high hopes for it. I would actually even pay money for such a game (if it’s as good as it sounds). Stay tuned for a review once it comes out!

I bet the developer gets hired by Valve.

But I had some free time, so i thought, I might as well give the demo a whirl. Best. Decision. Ever. All those reviews? They were right. The game is simply SO much fun. The graphics are great, the game play is fun, controls are easy to use once you get used to it. We have a winner here.

What is even better is that the game is provided over steam. Now, I love steam. I think having a central control system for the games is the best idea ever. I hate logging into BF2 only to find there was a patch released. Then having to download the 500Mb patch. With steam, it’s always running, so will automatically update the game. So when I want to play, the latest patches have already been applied.

Which isn’t to say that the game/steam is perfect. If you want to play the game, you need to update your graphics drivers to a special release by ATi/nVidia. Then there is the fact that it needs administrator privileges to play on Vista. Once you get past all the itty, bitty annoyances, the game is simply just fun to play.

I seriously recommend this game if you love FPS. And even if you don’t.

I leave you now to go play BF2 on my shiny rig. Did I mention it had 4Gb of DDR2-667 and a 8800GTX? keke