Portal

Portal is a game for the ages. It's something that's not only fun, it's a completely original idea for a game. It's a puzzle-first person game created by Valve in 2007. It's a fairly short game, the first time through you can beat it in one sitting, and most people only knew about it because Valve had thrown it on The Orange Box as a bonus feature. But really, this became one of the most iconic games to come out five years ago and even after all this time (five years is eons for videogames) it's still has a few hours of amazing gameplay.

The story of portal is that you wake up from a sleeping chamber in order to be tested by the AI GlaDos. GlaDos had been programmed to test, even after everyone else has died. You play a young lady named Chell, though I don't know how anyone knows that since your name is never mentioned and Chell never speaks throughout the whole game. But, as Doc Mitchell once said, "if that's your name, that's your name" so we'll go with it.

 You test and solve puzzles throughout the whole thing. GlaDos keeps insinuating that after the final test you might be immediately murdered, but is that what really happens? Play it and see.

The puzzle portion comes with the portal gun, you shoot one portal on a wall, shoot the other portal on another wall, go through one, come out the other. It teaches you a knew way to think about physical problems. It teaches you how to think with portals.

Overall: A. This is such a great game that I don't even mind that you can beat it in less than 3 hours if you know what you're doing. If you've never played it, you should.