Android hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance.

I'v been enjoying a little bit of post University R&R and I've decided to start clearing titles from my backlog of games but that's a little hard to do when really good games keep coming out on the same week so I got a little side tracked. I found myself replaying Portal in anticipation of its sequel which I then proceeded to devour in less than a day.
I was immediately floored by it not because the graphics were amazing - although the art design is impeccable the graphics themselves are nothing to write home about - and not because the puzzles were especially clever, though they most certainly are, but because the writing is some of the sharpest, most well delivered dialog in a game I've ever seen and the whole thing literally had me laughing out loud which is a rare thing indeed. Just as important the dialog is actually funny: this isn't goofy, childish or hokey the way some other adventure games are. The humor was dark as hell without ever taking itself seriously and it greatly benefits from Stephen Merchant's sensibilities, not to mention his voice, and it also includes snippets from one JK Simmons whose delivery is so spot on that he manages to deliver some seriously callous lines in a way that's both believable and completely ridiculous.



Anyways rather than write a full review of it I'm just going to suggest that everyone with a functional PC get this. The requirements are pretty modest and it runs on both Mac and PC. There's of course PS3 and 360 versions and the PS3 version actually works with the PC/Mac versions meaning if you fuckers get it I'll actually be able to play Co-op with you (there's an included co-op campaign). So really there's no reason not to get it. Well unless you don't like fun I guess and if so well then carry on. Though I should point out that someone who was notoriously against having fun was Hitler. Yeah, I put that out there. Something to think about, hmmmmmm?