Now, that isn’t to say this is just another Bridge Constructor game with the Portal licence slapped on top to increase sales. The Portal licence brings with it a collection of instantly recognisable obstacles (such as lasers and turrets) and tools (such as portals and Propulsion Gel) that enrich the game’s somewhat traditional engineering simulation foundation.
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While this reviewer had never played a Bridge Constructor game before this one, the basic premise is easy to grasp yet difficult to master: create a series of bridges to ensure a vehicle reaches a pre-determined exit point.
Bridge Constructor Portal isn’t Portal 3 by any stretch of the imagination, but it certainly scratches an itch for fans of the series. Sure, there was The Lab in 2016 – but that was a free HTC Vive exclusive VR ‘experience’. Since then, players have been waiting for a new Portal game to arrive, along with the ever-elusive Half Life 3 (neither of which is going to happen… probably). It’s been nearly seven years since Portal 2 – which Alternative Magazine Online described in its 10 OUT OF 10 review as “a difficult game to fault” – was released. Developed by ClockStone (under licence from Valve) and published by Headup Games, Bridge Constructor Portal returns players to the Aperture Science Enrichment Center to tackle 60 test chambers of ever-increasing difficulty, under the watchful eye of GLaDOS…
Bridge Constructor Portal merges the classic Portal games (Valve Corporation) with the popular Bridge Constructor (ClockStone) series of games.