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Portal: Still Alive

Portal: Still Alive is a retooled version of the original smash hit first-person puzzle game, with additional levels and challenges. As unwilling test subjects in a sinister laboratory, players must break the…

95 22 October 2008

Portal: Still Alive is an adventure developed by Valve, released 22 October 2008 on Xbox 360.

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What Portal: Still Alive is

Portal: Still Alive is an adventure game developed by Valve and released in 2008. It is available on Xbox 360 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Portal: Still Alive is a retooled version of the original smash hit first-person puzzle game, with additional levels and challenges. As unwilling test subjects in a sinister laboratory, players must break the laws of physics using 'portal' technology to solve puzzles and survive. Featuring a darkly comic story that weaves adventure with brain-bending puzzles; 'Portal: Still Alive' also introduces 14 brand new bonus puzzles to challenge even the most skilled test subjects. Players can also get a glimpse into the making of 'Portal: Still Alive' with commentary from the developers.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Portal series

Portal: Still Alive is the third of 18 entries we hold in the Portal series. It arrived a year after Portal. The next entry was Portal 2 in 2011. Its critic score of 95 is 13 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Portal: Companion Collection at 100.

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How it was received

Portal: Still Alive holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 30 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Portal: Still Alive launched on 22 October 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space and Gears of War 2. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space, Gears of War 2.

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When did Portal: Still Alive come out?
Portal: Still Alive was released on 22 October 2008 for Xbox 360.

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