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    Portal

    Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Oct 10, 2007

    A first-person puzzle game developed by Valve and graduates of DigiPen, Portal forces a human test subject to run a gauntlet of grueling spatial experiments administered by a malfunctioning, psychotic artificial intelligence named GLaDOS.

    metalhead000's Portal (PC) review

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    Portal Revolutionizes First-Person games, and it is a must have!

    When Valve announced that they were going to release Portal, everyone was excited. The gameplay altered anything that you would see from any Puzzle game. Portal is very Unique and will have you thinking more than any Puzzle game avalable.

    Pros and Cons:
    + Unique Gameplay.
    + Makes you think.
    + Achievements.
    + A great amount of replayability.
    + Your not using a gun with Bullets in it.
    + Each map is detailed.
    + Perfect Physics.

    - Only 19 missions.

    You start out in the game in a glass box. You hear a voice from a robot who goes by the name of GLaDoS. She guides you throughout the game. Once you get out of your little box, you have a gun with you, but it isn't a gun that has bullets in it. It's called a Portal Gun. You left or right click to shoot out different Portals. You start out by shotting one Portal, but you get to shoot two Portals. That's when the game gets challenging.

    You have to colored Portals. One is blue, and the other is orange. If you shot a Orange Portal in one area and a blue in another and you went through the blue Portal, you will come out of the Orange Portal, and Vice-Versa.

    You have two Main Objectives. The First is for every Map, which is to get to the elevator. The other Objective is to find GLaDoS. The ending is pretty cool, so try to play the game for yourself.

    There are only three things in the game that would kill you. The first is falling from a certain height. The second is a electric ball. The third is Androids, which shoot Bullets at you. Your able to kill Androids by simpley picking the up, and putting them down.

    There really is no set Difficulty. The Puzzles are Difficult for yourself. On your first go at Portal, you'll most likely spend 6-10 hours on the Story. If you want to earn some of the Steam Achiviments, the Story Mode will take you about 2-4 hours, since you would already have an idea what to do. Or, you would just like to find the secret cake.

    The Graphics are beautiful. They are game that surpass this games Graphics, but they are still beautiful.

    Voice Acting for GLaDoS is really trumendous. When it malfunctions, it will sound exactly like a machine malfunctioning. When she is happy, she will sound happy. It's just purley amazing.

    All of this is put into Portal, and it is such a Perfect game. The unique Gameplay is Amazing and the game will make you think as hard as you can. Sometimes you might need to look at Walkthroughs to get past levels! Portal is a must have for any Gamer, wether you like games with First-Person Prespectiveness, or you just love solving hard puzzles.

    Portal is truely Revolutionary.

    Other reviews for Portal (PC)

      The Cake is a Lie. 0

      Valve really do not do much to innovate any genre of games they make, at least in the gameplay aspect. Sure, they may have created the most innovative gaming service when they released Steam, and created a great way of story-telling in first person, but how the games they create play haven't really been something they've been too inventive with. Well, now, that Portal has been released, you can no longer say that. Portal is genius. Pure genius. If you jump into the game not knowing or have seen ...

      12 out of 13 found this review helpful.

      Mind-bendingly clever, superb fun, and hilariously funny. 0

      Tucked away within The Orange Box, Portal at first doesn't appear to be anything particularly special. Considering that Half-Life 2: Episode Two and Team Fortress Two got most of the press coverage beforehand, it is somewhat surprising that Portal has been the most well received and critically acclaimed game included in the package. However, it deserves every bit of credit it has got. The game may be short, but is incredibly sweet, in a humorously dark and twisted kind of way.Set somewhere withi...

      6 out of 6 found this review helpful.

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