PUBLISHER VALVE COLOUR ORANGE
Valve is a company that likes to solve problems, and in 2007 the problem was that none of its current projects – Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, and a weird experiment called Portal – really felt like a full game. But Valve realised each project filled in the gaps where the others fell short. So was born the greatest videogame anthology in history.
Before launch, the headline act was Episode Two. Although Episode One hadn’t been quite up to the same standard as Half-Life 2, Episode Two promised terrifying new enemies, advanced vehicular mechanics, and some big story twists.