{"id":17555,"date":"2018-03-16T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T00:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17555"},"modified":"2018-02-25T07:03:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T07:03:03","slug":"bridge-constructor-portal-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/16\/bridge-constructor-portal-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge Constructor Portal (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC, Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I just love the Portal games.\u00a0 They\u2019re some of my most favorite puzzle platform titles and evil computer GlaDOS immediately became one of my top video game villains when I first saw her in Portal.\u00a0 And now Portal has teamed up with another puzzle game: Bridge Constructor, to bring you a new bridge building game with Portal themes.\u00a0 At first I wasn\u2019t interested in Bridge Constructor, but after I heard there was going to be a Portal version, I got pretty interested in it after that.\u00a0 So much so that I reviewed the original game here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 And I\u2019m glad I did, as it helped me understand the Portal version better.\u00a0 Anyway, Bridge Constructor Portal is available for nearly all current game consoles, PC, and mobile devices, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

The object is the same as in the original game.\u00a0 You must use a grid based and cursor building system to place platforms, scaffolds, and cables to make bridges so forklifts can make it to point A to point B.\u00a0 They simplified the building tools and omitted concrete, and they took out the rule where you can only build as much as you have budget for.\u00a0 You can still see how much money you \u2018wasted\u2019 on your bridges, but you don\u2019t get penalized.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a fun little score you can keep track of if you wish. When you are finished building you can test your creation by having a forklift drive through.\u00a0 \u00a0Once you get one forklift through, you can challenge yourself by trying to get a whole convoy of forklifts across, or you can start the next level (60 in all).<\/p>\n

But just because they simplified things a bit, it doesn\u2019t mean the game is any easier.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have to deal with all sorts of new obstacles.\u00a0 Mainly you can have forklifts drive through portal doors to appear in other spots on the map.\u00a0 Other obstacles you may have to deal with are forklift-destroying sentry turrets, pools of acid, switches, companion cubes, and bouncing super pellets.\u00a0 So now only must you build bridges, but you may have to build other structures to destroy turrets, flip switches, and solve puzzles.\u00a0 Later on you\u2019ll even have to deal with acceleration and bouncing gels, just like in Portal 2, which can make your forklifts drive faster or bounce around when they touch those colored gels.\u00a0 So they really utilized the Portal themes well.<\/p>\n

The game starts you off fairly easy, and GlaDOS gives you instructions and taunts you at the same time in the entry tutorial levels, so figuring out the game\u2019s rules is a bit more intuitive, thanks to that.\u00a0 But the levels get super HARD about halfway through the game.\u00a0 Aside from that, all the other problems I had with the game are very minor.\u00a0 It would\u2019ve been neat if GlaDOS talked at you more, or sang you a song at the end credits, or maybe Wheatley could\u2019ve joined in on the fun, too.\u00a0 But I guess all that licensing would\u2019ve been too expensive, and this isn\u2019t a AAA game or anything (but nothing wrong with that, as many of today\u2019s AAA titles are way too overbloated and overhyped).\u00a0 Some may find the interface on the PS4 a bit clunky, but it\u2019s certainly an improvement over the original Bridge Constructor.\u00a0 Building requires a bit more accuracy here, so you may have to zoom in more often to get your bridges adjusted just right.\u00a0 And like with other physics-based games, there is a level of unpredictability that can be a bit frustrating.\u00a0 For instance, I could get a whole convoy of forklifts through my obstacles, only to have the last one flip over for no apparent reason.\u00a0 But if you like Portal games and puzzlers like Lemmings, you\u2019ll definitely want to check this one out anyway.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the best puzzle games I\u2019ve played this year so far.<\/p>\n

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

Violence is really only minimal and cartoony.\u00a0 You can send forklifts into dangerous situations that could get them tossed about, exploded, or dissolved into acid.\u00a0 But the drivers of these forklifts look like stick figures straight off the men\u2019s public restroom door.\u00a0 GlaDOS\u2019 humor is pretty tongue-in-cheek as well.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must for the text, and younger gamers may need help with the tougher levels.\u00a0 Even though the game is based on more science fiction than science fact, it could still be considered somewhat educational as it uses real world physics rules to build bridges.\u00a0 You can even view a \u2018resource library\u2019 that gives you hints on how to build the best bridges and even shows pictures and equations on how those kinds of things work.\u00a0 I could see kids spending hours on this and the original game building all sorts of crazy contraptions.\u00a0 Bridge Constructor Portal is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just love the Portal games.\u00a0 They\u2019re some of my most favorite puzzle platform titles and evil computer GlaDOS immediately became one of my top video game villains when I first saw her in Portal.\u00a0 And now Portal has teamed up with another puzzle game: Bridge Constructor, to bring you a new bridge building game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17555","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\/17555","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=17555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17557,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555\/revisions\/17557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}