The game being played.
19:35 Saturday 29 Dec 07
The last fps I played was Doom. Before that it was Wolfenstein. I have a memory of playing Half Life on something somewhere but not pursuing it for some reason. I mentioned this compilation to the girls before Christmas and the mention worked just perfectly.
So far it’s excellent. I’m a fair way into Half Life 2 and I started Portal – the real reason for wanting the whole thing. I’ll be starting Portal again just to heard the wacky female voice – sounded vaguely like the female robot in Bicentennial Man. Puzzle games I love and this seems to have that edge according to the many blog posts about it. In the main game (maybe it’s not in the first game?) I have yet to hit the apparent slowing down mentioned in many reviews, but the amount of loading and the loading times are bad. Early on I was being pursued, I had no ammo, my health was dropping as the bullets hit – and then the whole thing stopped to reload. That’s one great way to ruin the atmosphere that the game is generating. Had some wacky behaviour too – shooting some barrels some distance away and behind a fence and when they explode I died, plus controlling a machine gun and the controls reversed. Very odd. Appears to need more than 1 headshot to down a bad guy – Bond only needed one in Goldeneye (remember the Dam? the guards patrolling the tunnels and towers?) Still, 4 games at a tenner each. Not bad.
