Portal Reviews

Portal is a first person puzzle game. Set in Aperature science labs, you play as a scientist's daughter who has been subjected to testing. After a brief detention in the relaxation vault you have to navigate your way around a series of easy, challenging, and extremely frustrating levels. Each puzzle represents a floor - or ...  Read the complete review

Portal was first seen in The Orange Box, along with the classic Half-Life 2 and its expansions, as well as Team Fortress 2. Not too much was expected from Portal - after all, its developer Valve only made it for a kind of test. However, it turns out to be one of the best games they've made. You can't get much better; the story is ...  Read the complete review

Portal is a first person puzzle game. Set in Aperature science labs, you play as a scientist's daughter who has been subjected to testing. After a brief detention in the relaxation vault you have to navigate your way around a series of easy, challenging, and extremely frustrating levels. Each puzzle represents a floor - or ...  Read the complete review

Portal is a First person action/puzzle game based in a science fiction setting, in which the player is required to solve number of physics based puzzles. The game relies heavily on the use of a device called the aperture science handheld portal device or portal gun which the player can use to make ...  Read the complete review

Portal is shot in the style of a first person shooter but is really a puzzle solving game in which you progress though twenty different science lab test chambers in search of your free cake. The story line is simplistic but where computer games are concerned I think too simple is better than too convoluted and the humour ...  Read the complete review

Portal is a very pretty (in a clinical sort of way) first-person action/puzzle game released in 2007. It has a good atmosphere and is very intriguing from the outset. It doesn't take long to get the hang of Portal as it is very simplistic and straight-forward with the only puzzles being how to overcome a challenging physical ...  Read the complete review

Portal is a single player puzzle game released by Valve as part of their 2007 Orange Box release. It is available on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 with very little difference between the versions. This very original game is simplistic in its premise, but this premise is absolutely ingenious. Essentially, you control a woman called ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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, ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review