Changes how you think about playing but in short PLAY THIS AWESOMENESS NOW!

User Rating: 10 | Portal PC
If you have not played this, then you fail as a gamer and should be ashamed. I understand fully if you can not afford it but when the day arrives that you can, you better play it for the sake of your soul.

Here's why. See i have owned this game since Orange box day 1 but other games kept coming up and demanding that I pay them more attention so like a fool, i did. However after seeing the front page review i realised that I should at least give it a go. So there i was playing for about 5minutes and i was instantly hooked. This rarely happens in game terms, i hope you are aware of that. Let me explain.

Great games all come from some background with stereotypical features and we all know and love them which is why people play specific genere's of games because they know what to expect and how to play to get good.

Platformers let you jump, are not too difficult and are usually just clean fun. FPS titles give many weapons and either scripted or non-scripted combat. Flight Sims give you realistic flight conditions and that sense of thrill in a dogfight. You know how it works and you know that sequels to your games offer improved graphics, more features and improvements on existing features. However, rarely does a game come your way that offers something completly unheard of and completly thrilling as the Portal gun.

See, its not only fun to use but it's "genius" to use. The whole point of this game is to get from A to B using your own methodical approach on how to do it. As in all games, at first it treats you with baby steps in how to approach the game but eventually you are left to your own brain to learn about gravity and momentum. The game also removes you sense of up, down, left and right in a hugely successful attempt at rewriting a gamers perspective.

Fire the Blue portal anywhere you like, fire the Red portal anywhere you like, look through one and end up looking through the other. If you fire one portal at the ceiling, the other portal next to you and step through it, you fall from the ceiling to where you were just standing. Fire one to your left and one to your right, stare through them and see yourself infinite times over. Likewise you could fire a portal directly above your head and one at your fet and fall through infinity!

Despite marvelling at these mechanics the puzzles can and will be at times a bit much on some people (myself included) as you do need to think a bit beyond the normal in solving your puzzles. That is, forget most of what you know in terms of FPS and puzzle games and just walk in with a clear approach to them. Doing this, helped me.

Ok now a rant on the only reason why people mark this awesome game down, then i will end:

Ignore the "Games too short" rubbish, because its the correct size for a puzzle game and anymore than its current size and it would be pushing it. As it stands now the story that is so beautifully simple; works perfectly as it is, the voice of the tester is often hilarious and perfectly scrpited as are the sentry robots. anymore script and it would seem a tad pushed because its so simplet o begin with.
When you finish the game you are offered advance levels of the ones you just played and also there are challenges to test your wits so there is plenty of repeat value. Besides, if you moan that its too short you, just play it again. It deserves your time because its new and fresh and exciting to play. A smile on your face from start to finish, whats worth more than that?

Buy this game, download this game on Steam, download it from some site just MAKE SURE YOU PAY FOR IT because whoever made it deserves that. And besides its very cheap, if you are on a budget income its ideal and you will be playing one of the most important special little games ever made for years to come, past years, years in parallel universes, years of dimensions within dimensions..ARRRGH! see what this game does to your thinking!
PLAY IT NOW!!!