Perhaps, perhaps, stands with her plot, which begins quite simple and innocently.
The player wakes up in a small glass booth with all the amenities, where it welcomes the cold and non-emotional voice Glados - AI, who controls a certain complex engaged in the study of portals and their properties. That is the case, this is a girl if the computer can have a floor mechanical voice in general will be your companion throughout the game and will make it time from the soul to drink or reveal - black in humor grabs. What other staff, you ask? And he however, you will learn.
From the very beginning of the tests, in the form of which the entire portal is decorated, the player will see the very portals in the action on which the gameplay is built. In essence, these are two holes in space that are connected with each other. The object enters the blue portal - it comes out of orange, and vice versa, while not changing its direction of movement and speed relative to the portal, of course. When you roughly understand how these transitions work, Glados will kindly hand out you a portal gun - a device, with which you can create them yourself (just one blue and one orange can be at the same time), then the riddles in the rooms are dramatically gaining difficulty. Then another number of additional rules appear like walls, on which portals can not be opened, objects like turners that need to be avoided or used for their own purposes. All this leads to the fact that the player's final game is distorted by the worldview - the fact that he used to be an insurmountable obstacle, now it may well be a help, and the level of levels itself expands many times.
It should be noted that most rooms can be solved in several ways depending on how quickly, original and independently of the usual FPS rules you can think. Especially for this purpose, competitive modes have been added to the game - to get a room for speed, using the smallest number of portals and finally making at least steps. Believe me, you yourself will be surprised at how you can cope with the next task!
Sound support in Portal is pleasant. The tracks are not so much, but they accurately convey the atmosphere of what is happening in the game, and the Glados voices and the most turret you still thank them for talking when you meet at the highest level. The song from the final titles - Still Alive - in the first days after the release of the game became a hit, which is quite deservedly remember for a long time.
For the schedule and the embodiment of the laws of physics in the game, the already proven Source engine is responsible. It should be noted that cubism prevails in the architecture here, but even the game looks beautiful. Portal is one example of the fact that the technology should simply allow artists to express themselves, and they will already give the game how many pleasant appearance.
Alas, but not without minus. The main one is brevity. When you study handling portals, the rooms will fly one after another very quickly, and you will probably listen to the Still Alive mentioned much more than expected. However, this can be recorded in Plus - because of its miniature (19 test rooms, two and a half character, etc.) There is nothing unnecessary, tortured in Portal. In my opinion, this is much better than if the developers were artificially trying to stretch the game, which is almost always noticeably naked eye and can cause strong irritation. Someone may not like that there is not even a hint of a network game, although it is clear - to make that several players can simultaneously rape space, very and quite difficult.
And, of course, how any other game from Valve, Portal was free to modify the desire. On the website PlaySector.ru there are hundreds of new levels and "complete" mods, which in quality can compete with the original game, thereby many times increasing the time spent in an embrace with the portal cannon.
So, the verdict: Portal is an excellent game. The original, as a sip of fresh air in a sea similar to each other clones: shooters about terrorists and RPG about the orcs. Just try, and I guarantee - at the end you ask additives.
