Portal is FREE on Steam until May 24th!

[detourne_me]

I've never played it before... i was always humming and hawing at getting the orange box since i don't really like fps games,  but i just can't argue with the price of free-friftyfree!

[daerdevil]

Excellent news this morning. 

[JKCarrier]

Cool, thanks for the heads-up. I liked the demo for Portal, but I was hesitant to pay full price, since "puzzle" type games by their nature don't have much replay value. So this is neat.

[Marmeille]

The cake is a lie!

Portal is awesome, everyone that hasn't played it yet should get this.

[Uncle Yuan]

Endorsed.  Portal is so awesome you could have bought the Orange Box for that alone and felt you got your money's worth!



But there's no sense crying over every mistake,
you just keep on trying 'till you run out of cake
and the science gets done
and you make a neat gun
for the people who are still alive.

[Silver Shocker]

I really enjoyed Portal. I already have the Orange Box (I got it for 10 bucks at a second-hand shop) but it's still really cool that it's on there for free right now, so more people can try it out. I'm looking forward to seeing what the upcoming sequel will be like.

[lugaru]

Not that anybody needs to be convinced to play a great game for free, but I'll dust off my old orange box review:

http://www.theconnoisseurs.com/orangebox.html

Next up is Portal, a vibrantly creative puzzler poured into the frame of a first person shooter. You are cast as a nameless female guinea pig that has no choice but to participate in a series of spatial experiments devised by a mischievous artificial intelligence. As you advance through levels you learn new ways to harness the awesome power of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, a gun that punches holes in space.


This concept is a little hard to explain on paper so I?ll use an example. Say you need to navigate your character through a corridor but there is a huge pit in the way. Using your portal gun you can make an entrance in the wall next to you and an exit on the other side of the pit. As the game advances you must come up with increasingly complex solutions to the problems you face, doing crazy stuff with the laws of physics and bending space. All through your journey you are companied by the disembodied voice of GLaDOS, the artificial intelligence that has staged this series of experiments. As a narrator GLaDOS is one of the games highlights, as its clumsy attempts to comfort the player are equally hilarious and menacing. The game is quite short and shouldn?t require more than a few hours to finish. According to Steam I took only 1.7 hours to complete the game but I had to rush a lot since I was sneaking in playing sessions while an out of town visitor napped. Still the play mechanic is mind altering and I cannot think of anyone who won?t feel rewarded by the games charming ending.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Awesome game, I benefited from this...and hey, it got me onto Freedom Force too, so it's a win-win-win!