Portal

Portal, though short at 5 hours, represents the best that gaming can achieve. I do not make this claim lightly, as I believe Portal holds the spot with no more than a half-dozen other games as representative of the medium's best offerings.I'm sure others can write summaries on the plot ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before beginning Portal, I had heard a lot of great things about the game. The introduction in the game was fluent going straight to learning the basic mechanics. Each level contained a specific task to do and once that task was completed, the player would be told to go into ...

THE GOOD: Accurate FPS controls; A groundbreaking and exciting new gameplay mechanic, the portal-gun; Innovative puzzles that use very well the portal-gun and the game's impressive physics engine; Effective sound effects and art design; Great new character, named GLaDOS, with some genuinely funny speech lines and a terrific voice acting; ...

If Portal was released on it's own then I don't think it would have gotten the praise it got. However because it was a great deal packaged in with Four or so other games then you see it as a bonus mini game thats quite good! My problem with Portal ...

One third of the new content in the Orange Box, Portal is too short to be worth the price by itself, but it's one of the most inventive and enjoyable games in a long time for the few hours it lasts. It has a simple setup; you're a test subject ...

This was a triumph. I'm making a note here, huge success. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. I'm a Mac user but I installed BootCamp and Windows XP (and Steam) just to try this out, based on word of mouth. It was completely worth it - the most fun I've ...

Portal isn't a very long game. In fact, after you know what you're doing you can probably beat it in 2 hours. I know this because i have played the game to completion more then a few times. This is a testament to how sweet those 2 hours are.Portal is ...

Portal is an amazing revolutionary game. It's a puzzle game which requires you to make portals to advance. You have to use the law of physics to guide you as you get through a set of 3-D levels. It's addictive, fun and well compelling. The game is with out doubt ...

 There comes a time in everyone's life when they buy something because of sheer curiosity. Portal is one of mine. I bought Orange Box for PC, however, I would have bought Portal if it were separate from the bundle just because it looked so interesting. I also like games that ...

Portal, to me, is the pinnacle of game development.  It has everything that a great game needs, excellent gameplay, tight controls, great level design, a reason to want to keep playing, and great sound design and music.But what sets this apart from all other games are the characters.  The three ...

Portal is part of a new compilation put out by Valve Software called The Orange Box, which contains a few other games but none are as inventive as Portal. Portal is a first-person puzzle game in which the player embodies a test subject for a mysterious corporation called 'Aperture Labs'. ...

Portal is an experience, and then blah, blah, blah, please insert here another canned phrase for an awesome game. Really. Now. Those crazy Valve guys take time in what they do, and so should every reviewer of this game.Portal is a "just-long-enough" take on the FPS formulae, only it's not ...

Portal was a game announced at E3 06 and had everyone talking. The concept is very simple. You have a gun that shoots two, different-colored portals (orange and blue), and when you walk through one, you come out the other. You'll find yourself solving puzzles that range from elementary-grade simple, ...

Potal is a very challenging game full of secrets scary  rooms intimidating puzzles and enemys.It's a great way to loss your mind lol the game at time is like wtf i was here and were is the ledge that i can portal to,It drove me bonkers because i ethier kept ...

Portal is a brilliant puzzle type FPS that uses some sweet gameplay mechanics to keep you thinking. Also, GLaDOS, the computer voice that talks you through your tests, kept me laughing most of the game. It has a surprisingly awesome story shoved into a game that really didn't need one, ...

For those of you who haven't been paying attention, Portal is one of the five games included in Valve's Orange Box. At first glance, it looks like a bare-bones puzzler in the vein of IQ (PS), with splashes of color being the exception rather than the norm. At the game's ...

Ok, so last Christmas I got the Orange Box, mainly for Portal and HL2.When I played Portal, I was confronted with some pretty good puzzles and a pretty funny game.Then I completed it."Ok" I said, "that was alright".I played it a couple of times after that, but once you've gone ...

This game is not only original, but a great reminder of the potential of video games. Portal is a game in which you generate portals (wormholes) in order to solve puzzles and get from one area to another. It is a simple concept, go in one portal come out another, ...

I am never in a hurry. It's that characteristic that produces my ease of lifestyle, calm demeanor and ungodly laziness. I watch television almost exclusively through DVR recordings, I shower at the end of the day instead of the start and I don't take out the trash until it mutates ...

Portal is a Sci-Fi puzzle game, The game is set around is Portal gun that can shoot two portal that you can sovle puzzles in away its base on the Gravity gun from Half-life the only drifferents is that you fire portal instead of pulling things apart. There are 19 ...

Innovation in gaming is something we all appraise. Sometimes just tiny little details of brand new content make up for a purchase, and in the case of Portal the innovation meter can be taken to a whole other level. It's safe to say Portal is like nothing you've ever seen, ...

Portal is a game that has been greatly overshadowed by the second Half Life 2 add-on, but is well capable of standing on its own. Originally included in the 'Orange Box' bundle, which also included Team Fortress 2 and the anticipated Half Life 2 Expansion, 'Episode 2', it is easy ...

           I was very skeptical when my friend recommended this game to me. "Greg, this game is like, one of the best games I've ever played", he said. Now I'm not the type of person who just straight up likes games. I'm very picky. Also, in general I've found that ...