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Portal (2007) -- PC

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Writers:
Chet Faliszek (writer)
Marc Laidlaw (writer)
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Release Date:
10 October 2007 (USA) more
Tagline:
Now you're thinking with portals. more
Plot:
Chell, a test subject at the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, awakens from a relaxation vault and begins her computer-aided portal training session. full summary | add synopsis
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Brilliant game!!! more (4 total)

Cast

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Ellen McLain ... GLaDOS / Turrets (voice)
Mike Patton ... The Anger Sphere (voice)
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Timers that are counting down in the game aren’t counting down to zero correctly. When the timer reaches 00:01:00 it immediately resets to zero, instead of counting the last second as well. GLaDOS is also saying the numbers at the wrong moment, for example, she says "two" when the timer says 00:02:59, when she should have said it when the timer read 00:02:00. more
Quotes:
GLaDOS: Time out for a second. That wasn't supposed to happen. Do you see that thing that fell out of me? What is that? It's not the surprise. I've never seen it before! Never mind. It's a mystery I'll solve later... by myself, because you'll be dead. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007) (VG) more
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Still Alive more

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14 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Brilliant game!!!, 8 April 2008
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Author: Scelestus-1 from United States

Portal is a work of genius, hands down. Only genius can use cake as a philosophic standpoint, argue to kill an inanimate object, and give you sufficient reason to love things out to kill you (much less call them cute). Further more, what kind of game is this? is it a first-person-shooter? a puzzle game? a comedy? It is (more or less) all three...

Without giving too much away, you play as a character (later on named Chell) that receives a device capable of producing portals. These portals allow you to travel across a room, walking in one portal and out the other instantly. You are guided through an expanse of testing and experimentation by a computer known simply as "GLaDOS", or Generic Lifeform and Disk Operating System. Things are not quite as they seem while you make your way through the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.

This game is worth the attention, and probably the most inventive thing I've seen out of the gaming world in my life. Get it. Now. =)

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