I played Portal for the third time the other day, via borrowed Orange Box from friend. 'Twas fun, of course. I was annoyed at how I did not realize I could get a Storage Cube via rocket fire into tube to prop myself up into the vent, and instead, like the other two times, balanced three computers on top of one another, nearly risking my life because of that rocket launcher in each attempt to get another. Grrr.

So I'm replaying it again so as to make right with myself. (Well, I would just play level 19, but my roommate took his xbox 360 hard drive, leaving me with my other roommate's hard drive, and had to start over. No biggie.)

More importantly, how do I get to advanced levels? Like turrets in cages and such?

Also, I played Half Life 2 for a few moments but had no idea what to do once I got outside. (And they kept hitting me for missing the trashcan when trying to throw the soda can, sheesh, what's up with that? I'm Gordon Freeman for crying out loud!) So, um, what's going on? How do keep moving forward? What is this game about? Do I get the gravity gun?

-CF