![]() ![]() ![]() She delivers some choice one-liners including, “Your entire life has been a mathematical error a mathematical error I'm about to correct!” and “You were adopted!” which made you laugh but want to smack her senseless at the same time. ![]() The humorous and sadistic dialogue spurted out by the fictitious cake-obsessed AI, GLaDoS, alone makes Portal worth playing. ![]() The satisfaction when you emerge victorious after a tough stage is priceless. The environment is your enemy as you use the portal gun to create ways to get through some of the most trying obstacle courses created. In Portal, there aren’t really any enemies. Most FPSes involve blasting through hordes of assailants with bullets/lasers/any other imaginable ammunition which rips enemies to shreds. So what makes Portal worthy of the 'Best game ever' title?īesides the amazing physics engine, suitably sterile aesthetics and great sound effects, Portal captured players with its originality. Portal was flawlessly executed in my opinion. It was one of those rare games where I didn’t sit there and think “That was great - but, the developers could of changed this, this and this to make it better.” Even the usually vitriolic reviewer Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw was uncharacteristically gushing about it. The publisher tentatively wedged Portal between two bankable titles as a cushion in case the game bombed.īut players embraced Portal with open arms, and its legacy arguably eclipses its Orange Box companions. It was shoved into The Orange Box collection by Valve along with Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Released in 2007, nobody could have predicted the commercial and critical acclaim Portal would receive. And then there is the homicidal Artificial Intelligence. Instead of the protagonist wielding a gun, she uses a portal creating device to get from point A to point B in a series of intricate obstacle courses. ![]()
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