Portal

Mady By Valve
PC
First-Person > Action > Shooter > Sci-Fi
Rated: T
The game
Portal is a first person shooter that your only gun shoots portals from one place to another, you shoot a orange portal on the ceiling and shoot a blue portal on the wall (there is only orange and blue) and you jump through the blue you come out the orange. This system opens a new style of playing games, on some games you sometimes feel as though you are trapped in this hole and there is no way to get out. Portal removes that feeling and replaces it with a feeling of power and control that all other games remove, you need to get up on that balcony you can get there so easy. There is kinda a half-way story line, You wake up in a room with no exit (if you play it will be confusing at first), and a female voice starts talking to you about passing the some tests and how at the end there will be cake. You move through the tests and you learn many different things about the portal gun, then at the end you hop on a moving platform and you see yourself heading strait for a lava filled room...you then escape and start heading; following some arrows on the wall, written in blood, to the AI mind of the female voice.

The Good
A good puzzle game, it is a first person shooter so some people might get dizzy by the falling and jumping and coming out of walls a ceilings. The game is in some parts extremely comical, like right after you escape from falling in the lava the voice says "Haha, for a second there you thought that I was going to kill you, it was just a test"(She puts a lot of infuses on the cake)"now lay down on your stomach and put your hands behind your head." Later she says "remember when I tried to kill you? Someday we will look back and say 'haha.'"

The Bad
The blood writing on the wall is it.

Opinion
This is one of my most favorite games ever.

Conclusion
Good game, there will be a sequel. If you buy the game I recommend buing it in whats called the Orange Box, It includes Portal, Half Life 2 , and Team Fortress 2. 9/10