Portal

Jan 1, 1970

Portal, tucked neatly alongside four other games, outshines them all and ensures itself a place in posterity.

Jan 1, 1970

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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.

Jan 1, 1970

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Jan 1, 1970

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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.

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.

Jan 1, 1970

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