
Featuring the phenomenal vocal talents of Stephen Merchant as Wheatley and a much more fleshed out story, and absolutely lived up to the hype. Portal 2 came along in 2011, and offered a more substantial game released all on its own. Her darkly humourous robotic narration reveals very quickly that this situation isn’t even remotely okay, and you’ll soon discover why GLaDOS is considered one of gaming’s greatest villains. In the Aperture Science testing facility (a different research centre in the same universe as Half-Life’s Black Mesa) our silent protagonist Chell is led through some portal gun testing by GLaDOS. The story of Portal is what elevates the game from great to exceptional. More so than all these memorable chapters though, the final sequence and meeting with GLaDOS is one of the great moments in gaming history. Everyone who’s played the game before will remember the level featuring a load of military turrets, or the companion cube this collection was named after. It’s so satisfying solving problems with momentum, and makes what should be a slow paced thoughtful game feel more frenetic.įor such a short game, the original Portal is constantly throwing new ideas at you. This means if you jump from a high ledge into a portal, you’ll cannon out the other side and be able to reach all sorts of places. The best puzzles in Portal take advantage of the fact that any momentum you have going into a portal is applied when you exit out of the other side, or as the game so expertly explains it “speedy thing goes in, speedy thing goes out”. You’ll need to use these to put boxes on switches to open doors and find inventive ways around the facility.

Your portal gun can fire two different coloured portals, and if you walk through one you’ll come out of the other. You’ll typically be presented with a test chamber to make your way through, and need to use your portal gun to solve the puzzles to do so.

In case you’ve been living under the rock, Portal is a first person puzzle game that came as part of The Orange Box in 2007 featuring portals. Two of these GOAT contenders are the Portal games, which are now available on Switch in the form of the Portal: Companion Collection. Obviously we aren’t all going to agree when saying a single game is better than all others, but there are certainly some you could mention that would be better received when making such a bold claim. The options in jam.cfg are all annotated so that you can tweak/remove the setting to best suit you.There aren’t many games that you can call one of the greatest of all time without raising a few eyebrows. This will enable the options permanently, to undo this, remove the exec Jam.cfg line from the bottom. To make this permanent, edit the skill_manifest.cfg and add this line to the bottom of the textĮxec Jam.cfg, the file should look like this This will activate the options described above.

To activate the cheats on a one time only basis, when running the game, press ` on the keyboard to bring up the Console and type: Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life Alyx\game\hlvr\cfg This will then give you access to the console by pressing the ` key.įind your Half-Life: Alyx Directory which should be in your steam folder: Go to your Steam Library, right click Half-Life: Alyx and choose Properties.Ĭlick Set Launch Options and paste the following line into the text box: JOY3 Notarget – Makes you invisible to most enemies (Except Jeff, he’s a scamp!)įeatures especially for Jeff who scares the bejesus out of me: JOY2 Look in a direction and press a button and this will create a sound object that Jeff will follow, only use this on the Jeff level as an error is produced on any other level. JOY1 Spawns a Grenade (only use on later levels or an ERROR is spawned) Increases the multitool scan range to save on bending and stretching.īindable cheat keys, bound to the Joypad buttons are as below but these can be edited in the CFG file: Makes the puzzles easy and shows the solution This cfg file has the following features: This is only for the run and gun experience. Please be aware that this will ruin the excellent game balancing Valve has provided and make it far too easy.

This config file eases the experience of Half-Life: Alyx. Cheat configuration file for Half-Life: Alyx
