It's a good thing I completed BioShock when I did. I picked up The Orange Box, along with another product which I'll blog about later, on Friday. This is basically the final nail in the coffin for Project Gotham Racing 4, not that I could afford it anymore if I wanted to. I need to play some more of the demo, just for fun, to see if I really want it or if it was just a phase thing. Regardless, I'm not even looking at it right now, this set is so good. Well, let me re-phrase that, Portal is so good, I actually haven't even played any of the other games yet. Like most people who are getting this, I think, I have never been into Half-Life before, but that's part of the appeal of this set. As soon as my family got a PC that was more than capable of running Half-Life, my hardware-challenged friend, Harry, started bugging me to buy it. I never did, and since I never had an original Xbox, I never paid much attention to that re-release, either. As soon as I saw Portal a number of months ago, though, this set became a must-buy. I don't know, but the general attitude before release about Portal seemed to be skeptical. For me, I was just purely excited. Having finished it twice, beating the Advance levels and being more than half way though the Time, Step and Portal Challenges, I think it's safe to say I'm satisfied. Well, as everybody's been saying, except for the length.

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I blame my friend, Harry, for my recent hatred towards racing games. I've never been that into the genre that much, so I had no intention to pick up Project Gotham Racing 3. If I had gotten a 360 at launch, that would have been a different story. My dad, however, is a huge racing fan. I'm no where as near as into it as he is, but I do love the BBC program Top Gear and I do enjoy watching Formula 1. It still came as a bit of a surprise, though, when my dad decided to buy the wireless racing wheel for the 360. He virtually doesn't game at all, and I didn't want it, so I have never really understood why he got it. One plus for me, though, was that it came with PGR3. I didn't really expect to get into the game, but for a while, I did. Once I got through the Arcade mode once on the Bronze, though, I just couldn't go back. Now, though, I wish I could, but there's kinda this thing about me not having a 360 right now that prevents that. Why? Probably the Bizarre Creations blog.

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