This surreal puzzler will mess with your mind. The fact that it comes bundled with Half-Life 2, Episode One and Two, and Team Fortress 2 is the icing on the cake.
Available on:
Xbox 360
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PC,
PS3
Genre: Puzzle Release date: October 10, 2007 Published by: EA GAMES Developed by: Valve
Portal is a comedy puzzle game. A pretty black comedy, granted, but firmly a comedy. Most of the jokes revolve around you being lied to, killed, or thirsty to the point of delirium, but that wont stop you chuckling at least once per puzzle. In fact, thats usually the reason for it.
The puzzle part youre hopefully familiar with from the trailer better yet, the 2005 prototype Narbacular Drop. Youve got a gun that opens rifts in any wall you shoot it at, and once youve opened two, you can walk
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We wrap our brain around this mind bending first-person puzzler
Mar 09, 2007
Even though its built with the Half-Life 2 engine, you won't launch rockets at waves of enemies or find any online death matches in Portal. Although it certainly looks like a first-person shooter and controls like one, Portal is best described as a first-person puzzler. But juicy details regarding this upcoming mystery wrapped in an enigma have been far and few.
Luckily, we got to wrap our brains around a level from a demo of the game. While it may not be the "groundbreaking action game that
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