Portal Reviews

What an odd little game. It starts off really simply, easing you into the simple premise of shooting a hole for you to walk through, and you will simply emerge from another hole. Simple. As the levels progress however, it becomes immediately obvious that there are so many ways to do each level, to pass each obstacle, to take out the enemy ...  Read the complete review

Portal is a highly original, utterly fantastic game created by Valve, that comes packaged in The Orange Box, which also contains Half Life 2 and the expansion, Episode One. However, Portal isn't really connected to the Half Life universe at all, and instead goes off in a whole other direction altogether, with impressive, mind-bending ...  Read the complete review

Set in Apeture Science Labortaries, this intuative pluzzle game shows us how good a developer Valve really is. The game has you in the mysteious labs with a portal device which allows you to make two holes in the wall and walk through them ending up on the side of the other, also known as portals. The aim in all the levels is to reach the end ...  Read the complete review

Portal is an ingenious puzzle game with a hilarious back-story (more of that later). You are equipped with a "portal gun" - you fire it at a wall and it creates a portal through which you can walk, usually into another section of the room. The basic premise is that you're in some kind of training program, being tested by the computer - ...  Read the complete review

Originally released as part of the Half Life Orange Box Portal is a unique blend of a first person shooter and a puzzle, taking place in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories. You play as Chell, a young woman who awakes in the Aperture Science Enrichment Centre with just one goal, to survive a series of levels using the Aperture ...  Read the complete review

Portal, brought to you by Valve who also created Half Life. Portal was made using the same design engine used to create Half Life 2 but don't let that fool you into thinking your PC will play this because it can play HL2. Would that it were my FPS playing friends but sadly its untrue. Portal is badly designed but its implementation ...  Read the complete review

Portal is a Puzzle first person shooter which takes place in the same era as Half Life 2. Portal was made by Valve, a company that has in the past made a great series of first person shooters including the half life series and team fortress 2. The game starts with Chell (The character in which the person plays) waking up in a glass box, aka the ...  Read the complete review

I love this game! My friend showed this to me last weekend, and when he let me borrow the demo disc, I was hooked! It is fun and rather challenging. I love video games that force you to think and solve puzzles. It's much better than just running around and shooting people sometimes. In this game, you get a portal gun, and you have to ...  Read the complete review

Valve Corporation's Portal has been called one of the greatest games of all time. This is quite a lot to live up to. After all, the list of 'greatest games of all time' includes Super Mario Bros, Chrono Trigger, Monopoly and Naked Simon Says. Even if it doesn't make that list for you, it's undeniably a modern classic. But what is it all about? All ...  Read the complete review

The game portal, is the most imaginative and incredibly simple idea for a game I have ever had the joy of playing. The game is set in the Half-life universe developed by the American company Valve, which has a very in-depth storyline that is a great read but not necessary to know to play portal. It all starts with you in a glass enclosure ...  Read the complete review

A mind bending puzzle game by Valve, this will really get you thinking. The basic concept is that you are put in several testing rooms, and have to make your way to the next room. The trouble is, you can't do it by walking or running, you have to use the Portal gun! This gun lets you fire a blue portal, on left click, and an orange portal on ...  Read the complete review

Portal is truly a unique game full of original ideas from the designers of Valve (the guys behing the best FPS ever Half Life) it comes with the great value orange box deal or can be bought seperately. Basically you have to make your way through different sections of a test center with a portal gun (allows you to bend physics by opening portals) ...  Read the complete review

It is so nice to see something new and refreshing, yet fully workable and without fault, as far as I could see. Portal is the new release from Valve which comes with the great value Orange Box game pack which also includes the main game Half Life 2: Episode Two and the multiplayer Team Fortress game. This is a difficult ...  Read the complete review

It's hard to think of what to say about Portal that hasn't already been gushed about by industry reviewers- but I'm going to have a go! Portal is a short but sweet first-person shooter styley game, first released as a part of the Orange Box package with Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2, for the PC and Xbox 360. Although intended as a ...  Read the complete review

PORTAL is a puzzle/strategy physics based game set in aperture science labratories, in which GLADos navigates you through test chambers to test out the 'Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device' or the 'Portal Gun'. Gameplay: Portal has a completely new style of gameplay: using portals to finish a level. Of course you cannot ...  Read the complete review

Portal is something of a rarity in this day and age – a game with some truly original ideas. It is from Valve, the creators of the Half Life series, so you can be sure that it is going to be a polished and slick creation. Built using the bespoke Source engine, it has the same excellent graphics as the Half Life 2 games, along with the amazing ...  Read the complete review