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Posted on: Oct 22, 2008
Portal: Still Alive
WORDS BY: Meghan Watt
Tease your left brain and tantalize the right with Portal’s delicious blend of challenging puzzles, action, humor, and intrigue. As a lab rat caged in the Aperture Science research facility, you must navigate through 32 challenges ranging from pathetically easy to mind-bogglingly difficult. Find your way over obstacles, around seemingly lonely turrets, and across chasms of ambiguous substance with the aid of weighted cubes and your portal-launching cannon — all while listening to a devious robot who wants nothing more than to help you reach your, er, the end.
If Portal already graces your collection in last year’s Orange Box compilation, the 14 new maps tacked onto the Live Arcade edition add little more than an hour or so of interesting brain-twisters with a few extra obstacles (sorry, no GLaDOS here). But if you haven’t gotten your hands on this brilliant masterpiece, now is your chance to purchase the game — independent from the original compilation — while planted firmly on your couch.
On Xbox Live Arcade
9.0
- Innovative concepts and unique challenges.
- Clever humor that'll have you chuckling for months.
- Extra puzzles not enough to draw back old fans...
- ...but what if Valve had made the new challenges co-op?
Wed, 10/29/2008 - 13:51
Posted by gamernerd
Great game!
Mon, 10/27/2008 - 10:39
Posted by DahakaVLD
Best game of the Valve company!
Sat, 10/25/2008 - 19:04
Posted by l TopGunX l
I LOVED portal
But IDK if this is worth the 1200 space bucks
Fri, 10/24/2008 - 13:19
Posted by FirelanderX
I own the Orange Box on PC and 360, yet I still bought this because I am a diehard Portal fan. I absolutely love it, it was worth reliving the fun I had with this game. :D
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Thu, 10/23/2008 - 08:10
Posted by ESCAP1ST
I may have this point of view because I didn't follow this game before it came out, but I was really surprised that Portal SA wasn't a true sequel or expansion. The fact that it's really the same exact game that came out a year ago (with 3 less games included) was a huge disappointment. At least the price is lower!
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 18:16
Posted by ChunkySoup
I have to mostly agree with Dagda Mor. For owners of the Orange Box its not really worth the extra 1200 points. If the 14 levels came as DLC for around 800 I might be interested. Where I differ is that I actually would not recommend this to anyone who has not bought the Orange box. Heresy you say? Perhaps, except for the sole reason that the brilliant 5 games in 1 pack known as The Orange Box can be found for $29.99 or cheaper brand new ($19.99 used)and you get not only the best 3-4 hours of Portal but all the greatness that is Half Life 2. (With the exception of TF2, which sadly, is better implemented on the PC and doesn't reach its full potential on our beloved 360)
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 12:50
Posted by Hill Watcher
I'm not sure I want to spend 1200 points just so I don't have to put in a disc to play Portal, but I am sure that I am lazy enough to.
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 09:46
Posted by JasonPWhite
so what are the achievements like in this new version? it took me MANY moons to earn gold medals on all Portal challenges in the Orange Box version, and i'm not too keen on doing that again...
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 09:27
Posted by The Dagda Mor
I am sorry to say that I cannot justify 1200 points for 14 extra levels (that easily could have been added to The Orange Box in DLC for a much lower price).
But for people that have not played The Orange Box I would get it.