Portal is a First Person Puzzle Game for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC.

User Rating: 10 | Portal PC
Valve is in my "Top 5 Developer Companies", beacause Valve should be proud for such great games like :
Half Life, Counter Strike, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, and of course, Portal.

Portal is a inovative First Person Puzzle Game, in wich you solve puzzles by manupilating phisics, by creating your own portals.

***STORY***

The story for Portal is simplistic at first, yet becomes mysterious and hilarious.

You play as Chell, a young woman that uses the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, in the Test Chambers of the Aperture Science Computer Edited Enrichment Center.

The story is not that thrilling at first, but beacomes intresting later on.
The story is set in the universe of Half Life, and it is obvious beacause of the refrences about Black Mesa. One intresting refrece to Half Life 2, is near the end of the game.

***GRAPHICS***

The Source engine always does it's job.

Chambers are clean, and the Center is rendered well.

The effect of Portals is amazing. It was probably a nightmare to place one portal on one side, and the second to the other, and when you walk to one of them, you can see your character and your sorroundings!
it's kickass to see!

***SOUND***

The soundtrack is fantastic, especially the nowdays popular song wich plays in the end of the credits - called "Still Alive".

The effect sounds of portals, wind, and just everything else sounds fantastic!

***GAMEPLAY***

Portal is unique in it's Gameplay, beacause it centers mostly around puzzle solving with portals, and monupilating phisics, and learning momentium.
What's great about the puzzles is that there are diffrent ways to solve them.

Sure there are moments, where you have to "fight" with your obstacles by using portals (trying to include as less spoilers as possible).

You can also mess around, for instance, placing the portal ablove, and under you, and endlessly falling.

In the fourth quater of the game, when you explore the Center, you can find Easter Eggs, and refrences to Half Life.

***ENJOYMENT***

Portal is a highly enjoyable puzzle game, if not one of those puzzle games where you want to rip your head off, and strugle the game.

After beating the fun and challenging, 20 hour campaign (2 hour when you already beated once), there are also bonus maps and challenge maps!

***THE VERDICT***

Portal is a classic, and let's hope that the annaunced sequel will come soon.

Portal is a must buy for any type of gamer - hardcore, casual, adventure, etc.
Even if you gotta rent the game, chack it out.
It's fun, challenging, funny, and well paced from the beginning to the end.

Score - 10 / 10 - Masterpiece.