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Jan 14th, 2008 at 02:21:30 - Portal (PC) |
SUMMARY
Portal is a first-person 3D puzzle PC Game where the only weapon available is a Portal creator. Goals and objectives are straight forward: get to the exit and survive. A creeping computer voice tells the player what to do. Avoiding turrets and using momentum to get across levels add complexity to each level.
GAMEPLAY
This game begins with a common introduction of not knowing where you are and not knowing what to do. The surrounding lab area causes and unfamiliar and almost cold feeling to the area you are in. The only characters that ever appear in the game (other than yourself) are a camera, the occasional turret robots, and the all-faithful companion cubes. The first levels are not too complicated and just require getting used to the portal system. The portal gun at this point only allows the creation of the blue entry portal
The controls on the game are easy to get used to; having only motion controls to worry about, it is easy to fully concentrate on portal making with the ease of either mouse button. Getting used to the physics of the game increases the challenge due to the nature of speed through the portals. As the game puts it "speedy thing comes in, speedy thing comes out," which perfectly describes as some levels require gaining speed from high areas to access the other side of the level.
At a certain point, you acquire another part of the Portal gun which allows you to create the orange exit point. Having control over both portals is extremely fun and allows you to kill a lot of time by endlessly falling with a portal on the ceiling and a portal on the floor. The Companion cubes add to the emotions felt due to them being the only thing you safely interact with. Having heard little about the game and the cube, I felt more attached to the Portal gun than the companion cube. Having completed more than half of what seems to be 19 levels, the gameplay length seems short. Only time will tell how this game ends up and whether the cake really is a "lie".
This entry has been edited 1 time. It was last edited on Jan 14th, 2008 at 22:41:12.
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