Review : Valve Organge Box's THE PORTAL

So this Was A Game I Managed to grab from Steam recently for free.I was steadfastly ignoring the game,until My friend - CODE NAME : PAiNkillER -threatened to kamikaze himself in an ongoing LAN Game .I'm Glad he did...

So Basically Portal is a Offering from Valve and it comes along with the Famed Orange Box Set.Well Avid Steam Players would have already grabbed the copy for free,that is if they haven't already bought the box set yet.Well

In a sentence the game can be summed up very crudely in the words “You enter into a hole and you come out of another,while solving puzzles”. lame as the sentence is game isn't.


What we see is that a gem of a creation called "Narabacular Drop" mutating into (in a good way that is) Portal,Driven by a Source Engine.

The game starts with you waking up in a Glass Cell In A room run by a company called Aperture Science,and a highly irritating computer voice/which you will later love and in process mentally assigning it a sweet and caring personality until reality hits you in the face when you discover its a psychopathic aggressive old nut job of a Baker going by the name of GLADOS,who finds Baked "cakes" funny.

The Sheer Objectivity of the bitch make you wanna bring the whole thing down using nothing but a knife,while chanting Jingle bells.But its Usefulness and quirky humor is what keeps you away from doing that.

In the first few levels are basically trained how to get in and out of pre-set portals,where u can have control of only one entry/exit point,then as the game gradually introduces you to portals you eventually end up with a gun that you can use to fire portals onto walls, ceilings, and floors. Your primary and alternate fire buttons will then enable you to create blue and orange portals, respectively, so basically moving through one portal sends you out of the other one. This becomes your travel mechanism through out the game. You can also pick up objects, such as large boxes, which often must be placed on specified areas to open doors that lets you proceed through a variety of test chambers.This Too is Made easy Using the portal Gun Effectively.

Initially the game is all too easy but once you start progressing things gets a tad bit tricky ,requiring you to control your momentum plus applying plain old logic,to avoid or eliminate obstacles.There are Multiple Ways to Get the solution.Having a Whole different form of game play gives it a very good upper edge, as its refreshing to play this game . The only trivial faults I can come up with is its distasteful Visual Scenarios,while serving its purpose well could have been better visually ,which can be useful in adding to the complexity of the game . Also the game is really short,just around 3 hours of game play.

But it more than makes it up with its concept which it give it a real good replay value as the levels can be played with different difficulty settings that provide a neat challenge to anyone who is ready to tackle it.

Here Is a review Of the In game components.Honestly don't bother to read it go Get the game,

Till Then Game In & Game Out.

Sound: 07/10

Graphics: 08/10

Visual delight: 03/10

Game play: 10/10

Ease Of Controls: 10/10

Value for Money: 10/10 .. Especially If you Grabbed it For Free

Replay value: 10/10

Overall Rating: 9/10

Additional Details:

System requirements

Minimum:
1.7 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, DirectX 8 compatible video card, Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Mac OS X
Recommended:
Pentium 4 processor (3.0 GHz or better), 1 GB RAM, DirectX 9 compatible video card, Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Input methods : Game pad, keyboard and mouse