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Portal
Portal was an ambitious attempt to tell a story with the depth of a novel and the interactivity of a game, sitting somewhere between interactive fiction and simulation of a computer system.
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27 reviews found100
Four Fat Chicks
Jan 1, 1970
Portal, tucked neatly alongside four other games, outshines them all and ensures itself a place in posterity.
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Armchair Empire
Jan 1, 1970
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The A.V. Club
Jan 1, 1970
Just as Valve's Half-Life 2 is the moody loner to Halo 3's high-school quarterback, Portal is smarter, cooler, funnier, and more sinister than almost any game this year. A.V.
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GamerNode
Jan 1, 1970
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YouGamers
Jan 1, 1970
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AtomicGamer
Jan 1, 1970
Putting Portal into the Orange Box package was a great idea on Valve's part. It might not seem like it at first, as the only things that really solidly link the Half-Life 2 collection with Team Fortress 2 and Portal are the similar controls, first-person perspective, and Steam and game interfaces, but Valve has confidence that if you like any one of the three games, you'll probably like the other two if you give them a shot.
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PC Gamer UK
Jan 1, 1970
Portal is a magnificent puzzle game. The titillating wrongness of every solution and the wonky thinking required to get there make you feel like a space-folding genius, and yet you'll almost never get stuck. Soon you've learnt so many weird ways of perverting the forces and spaces in any room that you can throw yourself through them, like a futuristic Prince of Persia with abilities more improbable and wondrous by far. The solutions eventually become more gymnastic - opening new portals mid-fling and plummeting back through those you've previously opened with pinpoint precision.
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Computer Games Online RO
Jan 1, 1970
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Gaming Nexus
Jan 1, 1970
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CPUGamer
Jan 1, 1970
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