Friday, April 15, 2011

Portal


To prepare for the Portal 2 release, I played through the first Portal.  It's still fun.  Yes, figuring out the puzzles to get through each locked room is a great challenge but just playing with the portals gives a lot of enjoyment as well.

I don't want to give away too much for anyone who has yet to experience Portal but there are moments when playing the game when you realize how Portals work, how the physics through Portals work, and how moving through Portals works.  Each of those moments is a wonderful "Aha!" feeling.

And then there is the antagonist.  Your foe in Portal is both unique and entertaining.  Not really that challenging but the difficulty level can be forgiven with the cleverness given to the rest of the game and the good amount of dialogue spoken by the big bad throughout the game.

If you have not played Portal the game only takes (at most) four or five hours to complete so you don't have to invest a lot of time.  I recommend the game on PC as the mouse control really helps but, from what I have heard, the game plays great on consoles as well.  The sequel will most likely offer the same fun, puzzle solving, and experimentation offered in the original.

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12 comments:

  1. This was a triumph, I'm making a note here, huge success xD never gets old

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  2. i just beat it for the first time last month (cause i heard portal 2 was coming out) im proud of myself for not getting stuck for more than a minute or two through the whole game... SCIENCE!

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  3. Cake will be available on the conclusion of the test =D

    oh no, wait it's a trap! the cake is a lie!

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  4. Portal was awesome, what I loved about the game it required you to think and a lot of games don't have that concept these days! Btw the cake is a LIE :D

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  5. Portal was an AMAZING game. Can't wait for #2 to come out.

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  6. What a great game, took forver for me to complete though, i'm not good wtih the physics puzzles.

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  7. Woop portal 2 coming soon.

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  8. btw, the cake might be a lie!

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  9. I still haven't played it

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  10. I've played the first one but not the second one!

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