Saturday, 22 May 2010

  • Portal is Now On Mac (Oh, and it's Free)


    If you haven't already heard, Valve has recently made its ever-popular sci-fi adventure game Portal free for download for just a few more days as part of a promotion to celebrate Steam on Mac. As the page insists, there's really no reason not to give the game a try. It's fun, original, and has decent replay value. Not to mention, it's left quite a legacy on the Internet since its original release back in 2007.



    The game is fairly self-explanatory. Through a first-person perspective, you control a female protagonist through a series of puzzles in the Aperture Science building. Using your portal gun, you create, well, portals that help you navigate between impossible spaces. There are all sorts of kooky physics involved, none of which I have the credentials to really question the realism behind. But everything's fairly intuitive, and once you get the hang of the controls, it's a lot of fun.

    There's also this AI character named GLaDOS who "guides" you through the game. In a digitized voice, she makes sarcastic jeers at the main character, which can be genuinely eerie at times. She repeatedly states that the reward for completing the puzzles is cake. When this game was first released, I couldn't go into any forum or discussion board without someone posting some variation of "The cake is a lie." And who can forget the infamous ending song.



    So that's my shameless plug.

    What do you guys think of Portal?

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