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Overall Rank: 48
Average Rating: 4.4/5
# of Ratings: 5
US Release Date: 10/10/2007
Platform: PC (Steam)
Genres: Action (First-Person Shooter)
Multiplayer: No
Developer: Valve Corporation
Publisher: Valve Corporation
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This Game Goes Outside the Box...By Using a Portal
dbarry_22 - wrote on 07/22/2012
While Portal may have been just an add-on for the Orange Box Collection, this experiment opened up a new gateway to a fabulous kind of game.
This game is a perfect example that simple can be better. There's not much to it, you start the game as a test subject in a facility where the only contact you have with the outside world is a humorous computer program running the test. Early on you encounter these portals. One is orange, one is blue. You go in one side and out the other. By using these portals to your advantage, you pass 19 tests put in front of you with the promise of cake at the end.
You learn more ways to take advantage of these portals as the game progresses and it's done in a simple straightforward way. First, you only have the ability to go through portals, then …
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