Later levels throw all of these into a single stage, but that only makes the experience more tedious, not more interesting.
The game tries to keep things fresh by injecting obstacles and items from the original Portal game into this one you'll encounter talking turrets, companion cubes, speed goo, death lasers, bounce pads, flying balls, and (of course) portals.
Once you've mastered suspension bridges, oscillating bridges, and angles of incidence, the stages force you to go through the motions to show-once more-the tricks you already learned. It doesn't take long, though, before you've seen all of the obstacles Bridge Constructor Portal can dish out. Then it was a matter of going back to work, adding a few more supports and tweaking the angle of ramps, before once again testing my creation. My forklift would often land on a bridge from too high a distance, and I would watch helplessly as it all toppled to the ground. The early going is tense: I would hold my breath as the forklift sauntered across my swaying bridge, hoping that the guy-wires were strong enough to carry the weight. While you start out building simple ramps and roadways, you're soon sculpting hundred-piece structures that dangle impossibly high in the air. Bolts in the ceilings and walls can bear a lot of weight if you hook guy-wires up to connecting points, but make sure you balance the bridge properly, or it's still going to cause your forklift to crash and burn as soon as it lays its wheel upon the road.Īll of the techniques you need are doled out slowly, so it's easy to get a handle on what the game is demanding of you.
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Build a series of triangles, for instance, to hold a bridge in place, or affix an arch to add even more support for your road. With only metal planks and guy-wires to hold your contraptions in place, you have to make smart use of your materials to ensure that the entire structure doesn't topple as soon as you begin.Ī handy "best practices" tutorial teaches you the fundamentals of architecture. Building a bridge is no easy task, though physics are a constant and punishing presence, forcing you to consider the impact of gravity as you build rickety structures.
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The goal is to guide a self-driving forklift full of cute little stick figures from the entry point to a faraway exit-all while avoiding turrets, leaping over acidic lakes, and triggering switches. This scene means nothing if you aren't familiar with that game.and it's just a quick nostalgia jab for those who are.Īs the name implies, Bridge Constructor Portal has you building a series of bridges in the facility made famous in Portal. During one such segment, a picture of Portal's famous cake appears on a computer screen while an instrumental version of "Still Alive" plays over the loudspeakers. Periodic cutscenes borrow familiar artifacts from previous games, but do little with these props other than make you fondly remember happier days. She's there to greet you with an insult at the beginning of some stages, and then you're left on your own in a bleak and bland test chamber. GlaDOS is back to make light of your shortcomings, but her insults feel like diluted copies of familiar quips, lacking the clever tongue-lashings that she used to so easily dish out. The story in Bridge Constructor Portal is little more than a collection of references to the previous Portal games. Even worse: I encountered a game-breaking bug that completely halted my progress at the home stretch. But neither the story nor the puzzles capture your imagination, resulting in a predictable slog that grows more tedious the deeper you get into the adventure. It sounds like the setup for another delicious brain-teaser that will tickle your funny bone while pushing your logic muscles. GlaDOS, an uncaring-though-humorous AI, greets you at the beginning of many levels, setting the stage for the plentiful puzzles that lay before you. Bridge Constructor Portal leans heavily upon its iconic forebears.
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