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About Portal
Portal is a single-player puzzle platformer developed and published by Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, armed with a Portal Gun, explore the laboratory and find a way out. Experience innovative gameplay changes the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment.
- Players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuver objects and themselves through space.
- Like Half-Life 2’s Gravity Gun, the portal gun can interact with and leverage objects in any given situation.
- Offers gamers hours of unique gameplay and puzzles.
Portal Reviews
At a launch price of $20 via the Steam digital download service, it's debatable whether Portal is a little too short, even with the epic finale. A few more puzzles would have been most welcome. What's not debatable is that Portal is one of the most unique, funny, and satisfying games of 2007, and we can't wait until Valve produces more of it.
Gamespy
More will undoubtedly follow, of course - as Gabe Newell remarks at the outset of the developer commentary, Valve feels it is only touching the surface of the portal mechanic's potential - and so we have that to look forward to, and the rest of The Orange Box to enjoy in the meantime. We've had potential before, though, with student game Narbacular Drop, Portal's predecessor, and this was meant to deliver on it. And so we're left with a curious contradiction: one of the most interesting and delightful things Valve's ever done, but also one of its least fulfilling. If only we had our own portal gun to bridge the gap to the first infusion of new content, perhaps we could forget it. Either that, or the next best thing - Companion Cube plush toys. It's surely only a matter of time.
Eurogamer
Although some control skill and speed is required later on, the vast majority of Portal can be enjoyed by thinking logically and methodically about how to overcome the problem in hand. And if that sounds boring, rest assured that the humour, flair, and satisfaction that come with progress make playing Portal an absolute dream.
Gamecritics
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Portal is the kind of game that your son’s son will play and enjoy.
Incredible game. A must play. Short, sweet and doesn't overstay its welcome. Honestly its perfect
A short puzzle game with fun gameplay and interesting storyline. Very good game.
An entertaining, unique game that still holds up to this day.