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The Talos Principle is a puzzle game developed by Croteam and published in collaboration with Devolver Digital in December of 2014. When I first added Talos Principle to my wishlist back in 2014, I thought: Hey neat, a puzzle game made by the Serious Sam dev team, maybe I will check it out someday. And so I did, 7 years later, in 2021, I finally bought and booted up the game. I was expecting yet another simple game puzzle game trying to emulate Valve's Portal series, like the many out there. I was wrong. It has clear inspirations from Portal but it is a rare beast of its own. In The Talos Principle, you will take a journey through the ruins of ancient civilization, solving puzzles in a non-linear order, involving multiple types of mechanics. /// Gameplay In regards to puzzle mechanics, you have your usual suspects: cubes, buttons, turrets, lasers, but there are some interesting ones, that breaks the mold for this kind of game like moving landmines, emp jammers, fans, time ma...

(This review needs a dire revamp, a more in-depth version should be done at some point) Half-Life is a classic first-person shooter, running on the GoldSrc Engine, developed by Valve Software , published by Sierra Entertainment on November 1998. In Half-Life the player fill in the shoes of Dr. Gordon Freeman, 27 years old theoretical physicist late for his first day of work at Black Mesa Research Facility. He gets in the Hazardous Environment Suit, the experiment goes wrong, Resonance Cascade happens. Soon enough the first day on the job turns into a cataclysmic event. Valve keeps Half-Life up to date, so the game runs flawlessly on a fresh install ''out of the box'' on modern systems and hardware. It doesn't need any mods for it to run properly which is a godsend when it comes to older titles such as this one, most publishers just slap a DOSbox on their games and call it a day. Structure and pacing Half-Life is one of the first FPS games to make the jump from dis...