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Portal Review (continued)
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Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
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ESRB Rating: Teen
Platform(s): Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Date: 2008-10-27
Very unpleasant trying to install and use, so I quit trying
Portal looks like it might be fun, so I got it. I have a new machine (fall 08) which runs everything else very well. Portal would not load correctly for a long time, and then finally after many hours of installation, it ran for about 2 minutes and crashed. It kept doing this so often I quit trying to play it. You must hook to the net and then run it through steam, and it is not worth the headache. TERRIBLE SYSTEM
Date: 2008-10-10
Valve makes yet another original game
Portal is one of the best games I've played in a long time. When you first start the game it opens up with you waking in a small room with walls of blue glass and strange (happy) music playing and you really do wonder where am I?
...that was just to get you started, but here's the real review.
Now you have to understand that unlike other puzzle games portal is not frustrating, what do I mean by that? Well let's take a game like mist for example. When you play mist, unless you're a super genius you're going to be throwing down your mouse every couple seconds. But now with portal, Valve makes the chambers just easy enough for you to not get frustrated. (don't get me wrong they take some skill to learn. But if you think they're too easy then play the advanced chambers that you unlock at the end.)
For the first 15 chambers the game seems to have no other story then that you're some lady participating in a test at a laboratory. But then we come to the 16'th chamber (your training for turrets) now I'm not going to spoil what happens but the game suddenly takes a humorous and somewhat disturbing turn in the story. Also you may have heard about some references to the Half-Life games and curiously wondered what they were. It's not really a big deal in this game though, but Valve has stated that in the future Portal games there will be more hints at Half-life.
Sadly portal is a somewhat short game and even though Valve has achievements, advanced maps, (which I will tell about later) and even challenges (which I couldn't complete) the game just falls short of replay value. So I would suggest that you purchase Portal in The Orange Box as you'll be playing a series if games (not just portal) like Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, and of course the long awaited Half-life 2: Episode 2.
Now I've almost finished my review, (my second shortest yet) I come to one of the most important parts of my review (I stress that.) *drum roll* THE HORRIBLE INSTALLATION!!!! Now if you have played other valve games you will understand that you must both install portal and the program (that we hate for the first few months) called Steam. Now Steam isn't bad software(no spyware no spam...nothing) it's just that being forced to install steam them download the game and finally play it while connected to the internet is somewhat frustrating to some people. But when you start to realize the potential steam has you slowly change your mind. You might ask "what the heck is "steam"??" well it's a program where you download games off the internet, like Call of Duty and Crisis. (NOTE: That's only a few of the games available on Steam.) There's so many things to do on Steam that your head will spin. For instance, the Steam Community and Free mods to download. So all though you'll be frustrated for a while you'll soon realize that Steam is great.
-Have fun playing
Blackout (that's my steam community name)
Date: 2008-09-30
Can't play Portal because "Steam server unable to process request"
I have tried to play this game 3 or 4 times since I got it about a week ago. I can't even play a game I legally payed for and is a single player game with no need to even connect to the internet because Steam's servers are to busy to process my request. My request being to play my game that I legally paid for. I will never purchase another Steam game ever. This is ridiculous. Also, you are not able to play any of the Orange Box games without it first updating, which if you are on a slower connection can take hours. It is not even an option. And one more thing, is forces you to install their Steam software which I don't like.
Date: 2008-08-13
I HATE STEAM
YOU CAN'T INSTALL PORTAL UNLESS YOU INSTALL STEAM. UNLESS YOU WANT TO SPEND 3 HOURS WITH STEAM SUPPORT YOU BETTER HAVE AN INTERNET CONNECTION AND REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD AND BE WILLING TO SUBMIT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS SO YOU CAN START GETTING ALL OF THEIR JUNK MAIL. DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT. LOST $20.
Date: 2008-08-12
A good game overall...
...The antagonist is funny, the protagonist is quiet, and it's filled with puzzles that confuse the mind and infiltrate the body. Overall, as I said, it's a good game.
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