{"id":13614,"date":"2015-06-26T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2015-06-10T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:50:40","slug":"portal-pinball-360-xbox-one-ps3-ps4-vita-wii-u-pc-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/portal-pinball-360-xbox-one-ps3-ps4-vita-wii-u-pc-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"Portal Pinball (360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, PC, iOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PORTAL_BOX\"<\/a>I love the Portal games!\u00a0 They were some of my favorite titles from the last console generation, and I\u2019ve played through both of them multiple times.\u00a0 So I was really excited when Zen Studios brought out a Portal Pinball game for their Zen Pinball 2 and Pinball FX2 platforms!\u00a0 (Reviewed on 360 here)<\/p>\n

You can download and play the new Portal table on consoles that support Zen Studios\u2019 pinball platforms.\u00a0 When you download Pinball FX 2 or Zen Pinball 2 (depending on which game console you own), you\u2019re just downloading the hub.\u00a0 It\u2019s free, and then you purchase separate tables for play in the game.<\/p>\n

The new Portal table is one of my favorites from Zen Studios, not only because it\u2019s based on one of my favorite games, but because the table is so well designed and there is so much attention to detail.\u00a0 Most of the ramps and targets are clearly visible and it\u2019s easy to understand what to do.\u00a0 Activating mission \u2018test chambers\u2019 is easy, too.\u00a0 Just hit the elevator target and make the ball go in it!\u00a0 You can even start the same mission again if you messed up.\u00a0 Plus it\u2019s a very high scoring table, which is always fun.\u00a0 Lots of attention to detail that Portal fans will love, like the fact that when you lose your ball, it goes into a flaming incineration hole like when you drop off the Companion Cube and GlaDOS\u2019 cores from the main game!\u00a0 There is even a hidden Rat Man mini-table!<\/p>\n

The complaints I have with this table are few and far between.\u00a0 Sometimes the lights that tell you which ramps to go up and which targets to hit can be hard to see, but that\u2019s a problem I have with many of Zen Studios\u2019 tables.\u00a0 And all the quotes in the pinball game are just lifted from the other Portal titles.\u00a0 It would\u2019ve been nice to hear some new lines from GlaDOS and Wheatley, but I guess that would be hard to do, I suppose.\u00a0 Plus, some of the multi-ball modes are hard to get.\u00a0 But that\u2019s really about all I can complain about.\u00a0 If you enjoy pinball and\/or Portal games, you should definitely download this!<\/p>\n

\"PORTAL_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zen Studios pinball games are rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Comic Mischief. But hey, it\u2019s pinball. Safe, fairly non-violent, and no reading required. A good choice for a downloadable game.\u00a0 The humor may be a little dark, but I think every kid should play the regular Portal games, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love the Portal games!\u00a0 They were some of my favorite titles from the last console generation, and I\u2019ve played through both of them multiple times.\u00a0 So I was really excited when Zen Studios brought out a Portal Pinball game for their Zen Pinball 2 and Pinball FX2 platforms!\u00a0 (Reviewed on 360 here) You can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13616,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions\/13616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}