Eurogamer cited that "the way the game progresses from being a simple set of perfunctory tasks to a full-on part of the Half-Life story is absolute genius", while GameSpy noted that "What Portal lacks in length, it more than makes up for in exhilaration".
Think registering your business sounds like a perfunctory and insignificant task?
Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello by Graeme Thomson Canongate £16.99, pp342 That this is the first attempt to offer more than a perfunctory life-in-progress of Britain's most gifted living songwriter says a lot about the task.
The documents also suggest that while staff members of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force eventually consulted environmentalists, they did not do so until late in the game, and then in a perfunctory manner.
Ouellet wrote a perfunctory letter.
Mr. Kramer gave it a perfunctory glance.
Giuliani made not even a perfunctory show of sympathy.
George Bush has pledged support, but in a perfunctory way.
The office did not conduct more than a perfunctory inquiry.
Emer gave her mother a perfunctory kiss and followed them.
