

It is possible to die by toxic radiation and fire, in a realistic sequence in which the player collapses on the floor, their vision turned sideways. Though this would appear to be suitable for younger children to play, the game is part of the Half-Life series of FPS's and is therefore directed at that audience. Players can create sets of portals in walls which they then walk through in order to traverse through a number of test chambers in an underground research facility. On top of all of these it has extremely hilarious but very dark humor (mainly the humor is the computors great underestimate of human intelligence, it thinks its outsmarting you the whole time when its not.) Overall, great game!! The plot is fairly hard to grasp, since the only scource of information is a computor that may or may not be lying to you, but it is a great one.

Additionally to that it has great charecter developement of the computor, the only charecter in the game, its personality (or at least the players perception of its personaliy) slowly changes throughout the game until it is completely different. One idea used many times in the puzzles is that momentum is conserved through portals, if you go in one fast you go out the other at the same speed, or as the computer said "in layman' s terms, speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out". Portal is a great game, even besides the story, it makes you think in a very different then normal way to solve the puzzles, with portals.

