Portal

Video Game
2007
12

IMDb RATING

9.1/10

15K

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From the developer who couldn't count to three if their lives depended on it, comes two of the best games of the last generation (that you can beat in a single afternoon): Portal and Portal 2.

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Artificial Intelligence Adventure Comedy Sci-Fi

A test subject wakes up in a scientific facility controlled by a sadistic artificial intelligence and must escape with the help of the only instrument she has--a gun that makes portals.A test subject wakes up in a scientific facility controlled by a sadistic artificial intelligence and must escape with the help of the only instrument she has--a gun that makes portals.A test subject wakes up in a scientific facility controlled by a sadistic artificial intelligence and must escape with the help of the only instrument she has--a gun that makes portals.

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IMDb RATING

9.1/10

15K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 6 wins & 3 nominations total

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Ellen McLain

GLaDOS
(voice)
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Mike Patton

The Anger Sphere
(voice)

Alesia Glidewell

Chell
(as Alésia Glidewell)

Jeep Barnett

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Jeremy Bennett

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Jason Brashill

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Christopher Chin

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Greg Coomer

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Scott Dalton

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Kerry Davis

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Chet Faliszek

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Paul Graham

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Mary Kae Irvin

Chell
(archive sound)
(voice)
(uncredited)

Lars Jensvold

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

David Kircher

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Realm Lovejoy

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Randy Lundeen

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

Nick Maggiore

Self - Commentary
(voice)
(uncredited)

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Trivia
GLaDOS may be named for the real life Dr. Gladys J. Loring who was one of the psychiatrists who evaluated Mercury Astronaut candidates at Wright-Patterson. These men were put through extreme tests that pushed the boundaries of ethical testing.

Goofs
At the end of the testing chambers, GLaDOS states that the equipment "can withstand temperatures of over 4000 degrees Kelvin," however, Kelvin is not measured in degrees, it's measured in Kelvins.

Quotes
GLaDOS: Look, you're wasting your time. And, believe me, you don't have a whole lot left to waste. What's your point, anyway? *Survival?* Well, then, the last thing you want to do is hurt me. I have your brain scanned and permanently backed-up in case something terrible happens to you, which it's just about to. Don't believe me? Here, I'll put you on:
Strange voice: Hellooooooooo!
GLaDOS: That's you! That's how dumb you sound! You've been wrong about every single thing you've ever done, including this thing. You're not smart. You're not a scientist. You're not a doctor. You're not even a full-time employee! Where did your life go so wrong?

Connections
Edited into Chell's Mind (2010)

Soundtracks
Still Alive
Written by Jonathan Coulton
Performed by Ellen McLain

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Featured review

10/10

Brilliant game!!!

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. =)