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Xbox 360 Review: Portal

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Xbox 360 Review: Portal (A small part of The Orange Box)

 

Dear Portal,

 

Let me just get right to the point.  Will you marry me?  I know I’ve only known you for like 2 or 2 ½ hours, but I know that I love you so much that I’ll never get tired of you.  You are easily the most innovative game of the year.  You’re extremely funny, and you only get funnier the more I know you.  Your game play is easy to pick up and play and easy to understand, you just shoot a blue portal in one place, then an orange portal in a different place. Then when you walk through one portal, you walk out the other one.  It doesn’t get much simpler than that, but you still make it so fresh, introducing all sorts of new twists as you play.  My only issue with you is I wish you were a little longer.  And that’s only because I crave more of you to love.  So let’s get married, have a baby and we’ll watch it grow into the greatest game of all time.

 

Love,

 

Every Gamer

9/10 (Would have been a 10/10 if it was longer) 

Newgrounds has a pretty awesome 2d version of Portal available for free HERE (Opens in a new window)

 

Mahalo,


Raul Duke 

 

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Published Dec 13 2007, 10:39 PM by Raul Duke
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sauer said:

Lets hope Valve uses the Portal gameplay to make one of the best games ever. It's hard to imagine a full game based on this concept, they would have to come up with some clever stuff to keep it from getting repetitive. The humor is also a huge part of what makes it so great, hope that won't get lost in the scuttle shuffle either.

December 15, 2007 8:59 AM
 

Raul Duke said:

Well it was written by the co-writer of Psychonauts, so i'm pretty confident that the humor would maintain a pretty high level throughout.  It would be interesting to see what might happen over a full fledged game, but I'm pretty sure that they could pull it off.  Lets hope it's already in the works.

December 17, 2007 2:45 PM
 

corndog said:

shuttle scuffle

December 17, 2007 5:11 PM

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