You'll never be this good at games

Portal, Chamber 15, 28 seconds

The depth of Portal's gameplay - combining twitch gaming, observational skills, planning and spatial awareness - creates a dizzying gulf between the casual player and the expert master, the difference that really puts a game into hardcore territory.

Here you'll see some truly advanced thinking with Portals, as the player zips in and out of the physics-bending warp holes at mindboggling pace, using beardy principles like velocity and momentum to crack this chamber with seemingly no effort at all.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.