Most of your building work will involve the metal struts and junctions, but you can also create cables that have a much greater possible length than the struts, allowing for the player to experiment with both suspension bridge and truss bridge designs. The game makes sure to teach you some basic bridge constructing methods, as a bridge that isn’t properly laid out will not be able to support the weight of the forklift or perhaps even itself. Every level has certain anchor points in the environment you build off of, stretching out metal struts and connecting them at junction points to build your bridges. Luckily, creating a bridge is a snap, at least when it comes to the construction part rather than the planning. Each chamber is designed to be difficult to navigate for the forklift, the player needing to build bridges that will let it overcome geometry and missing floors to get to its destination, the chambers gradually getting more and more complicated as you’ll soon need to build gargantuan, complex structures to help it weave around the many obstacles to the exit. This doesn’t mean the forklifts are invincible though, as there are plenty of things in the chambers like lasers and acid that can destroy them, and since they always try to drive forward, they might end up stuck if the bridges don’t give them the room to build up speed or make them face the wrong direction.
So long as it gets there in-tact, it doesn’t matter if it loses its riders or performs some dangerous flips or jumps, the level will be considered a success. The goal of each level in Bridge Constructor Portal is to create a bridge capable of getting a forklift to a chamber’s exit.
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The Portal series is mostly here to provide a recognizable coat of paint to the affair while bringing over elements from Valve’s puzzle game series to make the bridge building more interesting.
Much of this carries over from the first two Portal games tone-wise and perhaps the game does lean into it a bit too much to try and remain faithful to it, but it doesn’t fulfill the same narrative purpose considering you remain within the Aperture Science framework for the whole game rather than resisting the injustices of the corporate environment. This ideology isn’t really kept secret, but it is obscured by the corporate speak and deceptive tone of the notifications and warnings given to employees about their deliberately unsafe work environment, the robotic AI GLaDOS overseeing the player’s work to both provide them useful info for the experiments that will be conducted while nailing in that they are expendable in the pursuit of science. As it turns out, portals are a wonderful fit for a bridge building game.īridge Constructor Portal involves the player taking on the role of a new employee at Aperture Science, a company so devoted to the pursuit of science that it it will happily and openly jeopardize the safety of its researchers and even their families if it could provide some valuable research data. However, thanks to an increasing openness with their intellectual properties, we did finally get a return trip to the world of Portal but in a most unexpected yet still quite appropriate form. The DLC brings more levels and more fun to the game formula, providing additional challenges in the Aperture Laboratories where you will build your bridges and portals along 30 new unsafe test chambers.ĭon’t know if you are a player who enjoys puzzles games, but if you have already played Portal or Bridge Constructor, you should really try this DLC.The two games that make up Valve’s Portal series united some interesting puzzles about spatial awareness with some expertly written comedic villains, but as Valve drifted more and more away from producing video games, it seemed like we wouldn’t be paying another visit to the series any time soon. And now, 21 months later (yes, that long), ClockStone brings more life to the game with a DLC by the name of Portal Proficiency, adding more levels of crazy fun do the title. In our review, back in Feb’2018 ( link for those interested), the game scored a solid 84%.
The game was well-received by the media, scoring 78 on Metacritic. When ClockStone announced that the fifth installment of their engineering series Bridge Constructor, Bridge Constructor Portal, the third to hit Xbox One platform, would be in the Aperture Laboratories… I went nuts! I doubt someone has ever imagined adding Portal elements to Bridge Constructor, but yes, somebody did! And I must say that adding Portal elements (including GLaDOS ?) to Bridge Constructor gameplay was awesome! Portal is one of my all-time favorite games.
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