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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.

    sirmokona's Portal (PC) review

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    The hell...what did I just buy?

    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 apparently formulaic at all. Scenario after scenario, Portal is a puzzle you solve with the greatest invention ever since popcorn and that thing they use for car tires nobody cares about: the portal gun. Instead of drafting through hordes of generic and boring enemies, you create portals through walls, and cakes, and beheaded wolves, and maybe just certain walls to get to the exit.

    That's the end of it.

    Except. It's plagued by wit (You've never known wit this way). Dialogue and plot-twists and...stuff? That battle-hardened Gamers have come to like but have never seen in this way. There are very few ways to convey an opinion that won't spoil you the entire game. I know you won't care anyways! So I won't even try. Too hard.

    It's got sounds and...uh....3D environments? Andreallyit'sgot the best story evar.

    Etc.

    I found it increasingly funny, addictive. And.

    The hell just go and buy this game, it's worth more than reading through pages and pages of generic reviews.

    Yeah, I just did this for the kicks.

    And free publicity to that Empire I love -which is Valve-.

    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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