Just when I thought I knew Half-Life company Valve, they reveal a side of their gaming profile I seemed to have missed. In a recent NVIDIA PC Gamer exclusive from Valve, 4 add ons where made available on Steam for free. The pack of freebies includes Oddly named and weirdly addictive ball blasting game Peggle Extreme, Portal: First Slice, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast add on, and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Though not all the downloads have been completed on my Steam account, I’ll update you on what I do know of these titles. Peggle Extreme is an update of an older game, Peggle, duh, where you control a turret that launches a ball at multi colored pegs and so on to finish each level. You see many Valve backgrounds and voices, from the Combine shouting, to the dieing sounds Gordon Freeman makes, to APERTURE Science Glados voice over, the infamous G-Man even makes an appearance. Portal: First Slice is the supposed demo of the amazing dimensionally bending game with the robot boss who’s missing a few screws (and some cake). Why they’d release a demo this late but either way it works for me, I loved the game already, owning the 360 version of The Orange Box. The Half-Life 2 add ons are the basic Half-Life add ons, though one is more of online battles and the other is an expansion of the original game, they are meant for HL2 which in the end equals out to amazing gameplay and hours of play and replay ability.
On another front, my search for a way into the game biz is proving more and more of a challenge as the day goes by. Game Journalism is a tough thing to find information on, I turned up a lot that was helpful but the stuff I need to find is still yielding a negative on my radar. I try to contact game journalists who already have a ton of experience but most of the time I can never get a decent response. I post this in search that by some off chance anyone can lend me a direction to head in, to get me moving in a some what right path. Just post a comment here, or email me at gamereviewer711@yahoo.com
At this time I head off to dream my little gamer dreams and maybe get a good night sleep in. Wish me luck and may peace be with all of you. Wow, cheesy ending.
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