Reviews - Portal: Unity Mod for Portal

Apr 2nd, 2011 3 people agree 1 person doesn't
This review may contain spoilers

This is one of the best mods I've played in a while. However, there are a number of issues that prevent it from being a truly solid game.

a) In the lobby (escape03), there's a metal detector that activates a red field guarding one of the hallways. If the detector is triggered before the boss battle, on the way out the player is trapped on the other side of the field. Portals cannot be used, as all the nearby walls and floors cannot be portaled. This makes it impossible to complete the game normally, even using noclip.
b) The launch video is encoded with the Xvid codec, which isn't installed by default. This results in an ugly error message while the video is supposed to play. While I probably should install a codec pack, it would be a good idea to use a codec that ships with Windows.
c) As another reviewer pointed out, magic illumination breaks immersion. It would be a good idea to add some fluorescent lights to the hallways and chambers à la Portal.
d) The voice acting is much better than a number of other mods, but it ends up being almost completely unintelligible. Adding subtitles is an absolute must - otherwise it's very difficult to tell what's going on.
e) The final boss battle was neat but it was quite counterintuitive - I initially missed the yellow lever by the elevator and assumed that the goal was to redirect the rockets, as in the Portal boss battle. It wasn't very hard to figure out after that was sorted out but it might be a good idea to e.g. make the lever more obvious.
f) While the map design is quite good for most of the game, it seems to suffer from a lack of refinement toward the end, especially after the boss battle. The hallways are too geometric and undetailed, and the elevators are like the ones from Half-Life 1.
g) Finally, it might be nice to dress up the menu screen a bit more, such as by adding a graphical logo.

I'm only nitpicking this so much because it's such a promising mod - unfortunately, a 1.5 update is sorely needed.

Apr 4th, 2013 0 people agree 0 people don't

Great charicters, Great models, Great story!

Dec 1st, 2012 0 people agree 1 person doesn't

Another mod I tried a while ago and was never able to finish. Map design was absolutely superb while voice acting sucked.

Aug 30th, 2012 0 people agree 1 person doesn't

I can't launch it .FUXK!!

Aug 29th, 2012 0 people agree 1 person doesn't

Good, Very Good...

Bom, Muito Bom...

Jul 24th, 2012 0 people agree 1 person doesn't

It's good, gameplay wise, the voice over has an austrailian accent, which I am fine with, but most of the time, it is too quiet to hear, so most of the funny dialouge is lost, it adds some new concepts and ideas to the main game, worth a try!

May 1st, 2012 0 people agree 1 person doesn't

It's a nice mod, but it has a minor bugs.

Apr 26th, 2012 0 people agree 1 person doesn't

super

Mar 23rd, 2012 0 people agree 1 person doesn't

Not that bad. Stuff from Portal 2 makes it cool but at least make the levels a bit more... interesting....

Feb 24th, 2012 0 people agree 1 person doesn't

Very nice mod, but there are no subtitles.