#PORTAL BRIDGE CONSTRUCTOR LEVEL 17 FULL#
#PORTAL BRIDGE CONSTRUCTOR LEVEL 17 SERIES#

It’s the little things, like no one calling me stupid when I let my vehicles fall into pools of acid, but what's there is quite amusing.

#PORTAL BRIDGE CONSTRUCTOR LEVEL 17 FULL#

I did feel like they didn’t use GLaDOS to its full potential. Your designs don't have to be perfect and who cares if they fall apart after, as long as you reach the exit. You can try each level as many times as you wish, you can build and remove parts at will, so it's quite satisfying when you really manage to get it working good enough. It can result in some rather silly consequences, but luckily failure isn't punishing on the player, it's a game that very much invites you to fail over and over again. On top of that, you're working your way around lasers, those hilarious little turrets, jump pads and more.

In Bridge Constructor Portal you're not just dealing with two portals, there will at times be multiple giving you an extra challenge to figure out where they all go. I'm not sure I should be allowed to design bridges… However, all that disappointment suddenly vanished when I got into the first test chamber-hello robotic voice of GLaDOS (Ellen McLain), how I’ve missed you! The way she says “bridge”, I could have died from giggling. That’s the problem when you take a beloved franchise and use it in your own games, you’re setting a high bar to follow. It was mildly amusing to read, but disappointing going in. I’ve never been too interested in them, but as a massive Portal fan I couldn’t pass this up. The style of the game is really fantastic, I think they successfully captured the feel of Portal, while being clear it's a different game to the classics.įor a game that makes use of Portal, to the point that the publisher said Valve “collaborated” on it, I was quite surprised by the initial introduction scene not having some kind of funny voice over. If I’m going to be totally honest, this is the first Bridge Constructor game I’ve actually played myself. However, I've put as much time into it as possible to gather some thoughts. Sadly, I got less time than expected on this one as the Linux version only started to work properly the night before release. If you’re looking to get bridgin’ for the sake of science, Bridge Constructor Portal is out December 20.YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view. But I do appreciate the madcap creations of some gap-crossing engineers, like these silly “bridges” by a Poly Bridge player. I was satisfied with World of Goo, one of our best puzzle games ever made. We haven’t really covered too many bridge-building games here at RPS. Portal Space Program? Portal Gear Solid? Portals, Please? It makes me wonder: what other Portal spin-offs would be fun? There's already been Portal in LEGO Dimensions. Some screenshots show a forklift bouncing around on its way to the exit of a level. It looks like you’ll be using the portals and bouncy goo of Aperture as well as beams and girders to get around obstacles in the testing grounds.

#PORTAL BRIDGE CONSTRUCTOR LEVEL 17 SERIES#

Previous games in the series have included one set in the Medieval period and one focused on stunts but this is the first that works with another well-known series. The idea of Bridge Constructor is a familiar one – you place struts and platforms and ask physics not to reject your bridge as you send over a few trucks. In Bridge Constructor Portal we'll see GLaDOS, the robot marm of the passive aggressive puzzler, return to torment the player with what I presume will be a characteristically snide voiceover, provided by Ellen McLain. Portal is being mixed with the Bridge Constructor series to create a spin-off game about making fragile bridges that transport forklifts from one side of the Aperture Science facility to the other.

Portal bridge constructor level 17