As anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock recently surely knows the long awaited sequel to massive PC game hit Portal has been released. Portal 2 is a mix of hilarious black humor and mind-boggling puzzles involving the same portal-gun that we got to know in the first Portal. The question many of you were posing was if it lived up to its name and I can surely agree with the people that say it does!For the people who don’t know Portal here is a quick summary of what it’s supposed to be:
Portal is a game between you, the protagonist Chell, and GLaDOS, the antagonist. You find yourself at the mercy of supercomputer GLaDOS who is working you through a series of tests that increase in difficulty with every level. To complete these you have to use your wits and a specialized portal gun which can shoot 2 portals that you can move between. By using these you solve the puzzles and eventually beat GLaDOS. The black humor of this game, the taunts of GLaDOS and the continuous grief she is giving you is the reason why the game got so insanely popular under gamers and geeks alike.
As a college student and one with a steady girlfriend and busy social life these days I can’t game as much anymore but for Portal 2 I took the time to complete a game for the first time in more than a year by myself. I’ve been looking forward to playing Portal 2 since its announcement so I had taken of a full 2 days of everything to play with this baby. The installation went smooth and I was surprised to see my laptop could still handle the sweet sweet highest settings that make this game such eye candy.
But enough about the graphics, because Portal was never about the graphics. Portal 2 is truly a wonderful mix of genuine original game play and humor never before seen in a game. When you start up you’re almost instantly drawn back into the comically insane world that is Aperture science. We descend back into what seems like a one-person hotel room with a voice-over telling us to do exercises and look at art. The game forces you to look at art, before being loudly interrupted by the buzzer again to go back to bed. When you wake up again the room is a lot more tattered than the earlier scene and according to the voice-over you’ve been in stasis for over 999999999… You get my point, it doesn’t finish. And in comes our first character, Wheatley, a wonderful little guy.. personality core. He has to help you to get your chamber to the nearest test chamber, and well, he does it, but don’t ask me how he did it. Out you go and into a new adventure with portals, portals and more portals.
Now what made Portal such a success besides the humor was also the new way of solving puzzles it introduced. You’d think Valve would have a hard time besting that, but they somehow managed to. Portal 2 introduces new toys to tinker with during your testing: Discouragement cubes, painting with physics, light bridges and more in each following level. Plus GLaDOS is back with all her sarcastic wit and prowess and proves to you that the part of Aperture Science you saw in the first Portal is but a scratch on the surface of it’s amazing size.
All in all I can say that I loved this game, from the curiosity and expectations I had at the start to the feeling of despair during the numerous grieving and drawbacks I kept getting from GLaDOS and that other guy till the final brilliant finisher and credits song. ON TO PORTAL 3! Thank you Valve
Written by Rain for Derion.Org Entertainment Blog
Portal is a game between you, the protagonist Chell, and GLaDOS, the antagonist. You find yourself at the mercy of supercomputer GLaDOS who is working you through a series of tests that increase in difficulty with every level. To complete these you have to use your wits and a specialized portal gun which can shoot 2 portals that you can move between. By using these you solve the puzzles and eventually beat GLaDOS. The black humor of this game, the taunts of GLaDOS and the continuous grief she is giving you is the reason why the game got so insanely popular under gamers and geeks alike.
As a college student and one with a steady girlfriend and busy social life these days I can’t game as much anymore but for Portal 2 I took the time to complete a game for the first time in more than a year by myself. I’ve been looking forward to playing Portal 2 since its announcement so I had taken of a full 2 days of everything to play with this baby. The installation went smooth and I was surprised to see my laptop could still handle the sweet sweet highest settings that make this game such eye candy.
But enough about the graphics, because Portal was never about the graphics. Portal 2 is truly a wonderful mix of genuine original game play and humor never before seen in a game. When you start up you’re almost instantly drawn back into the comically insane world that is Aperture science. We descend back into what seems like a one-person hotel room with a voice-over telling us to do exercises and look at art. The game forces you to look at art, before being loudly interrupted by the buzzer again to go back to bed. When you wake up again the room is a lot more tattered than the earlier scene and according to the voice-over you’ve been in stasis for over 999999999… You get my point, it doesn’t finish. And in comes our first character, Wheatley, a wonderful little guy.. personality core. He has to help you to get your chamber to the nearest test chamber, and well, he does it, but don’t ask me how he did it. Out you go and into a new adventure with portals, portals and more portals.
Now what made Portal such a success besides the humor was also the new way of solving puzzles it introduced. You’d think Valve would have a hard time besting that, but they somehow managed to. Portal 2 introduces new toys to tinker with during your testing: Discouragement cubes, painting with physics, light bridges and more in each following level. Plus GLaDOS is back with all her sarcastic wit and prowess and proves to you that the part of Aperture Science you saw in the first Portal is but a scratch on the surface of it’s amazing size.
All in all I can say that I loved this game, from the curiosity and expectations I had at the start to the feeling of despair during the numerous grieving and drawbacks I kept getting from GLaDOS and that other guy till the final brilliant finisher and credits song. ON TO PORTAL 3! Thank you Valve
Written by Rain for Derion.Org Entertainment Blog
9 comments:
Portal 2 sucks
that may be the case but portal still sucks
Myself as a gamer who has spread through many genres while collecting GS I have found portal 2 to be one of the worst game currently realesed and I strongly advise anyone from buying it as I sight it as just "a waste of money"
Guess whos back.... back again.... grhym is back... for the win
Review on this review:
I have found this review to not hold enough information about the game the plot walkthrough looks like it has been took straight out of wiki and you also fail to mention that portal 2 is also a console game siting it as just a PC game you tend to get involved in your personal life which tends to drift away from the review of the game itself.
Portal isn't bad at all, it's very interesting gameplay and it's very humourous. Did you guys even clear it? D:
I agree with Padman
Padman, it's odd how you claim it looks like it's taken straight out of wiki. I actually made a plot summary myself because I found the wikipedia summary, or any other I have found, to be way too specific and long for the intentions of my review. So I made one myself.
Thank you all for the feedback though, will use it in future reviews. No problem.
I liked Portal 2, you don't have to like it, opinions are opinions.
just to comment on the abuse that has been going on here i believe that after completing both the single player and multi-player campaign that portal 2 is a truly in-different game that has ups and downs as many games do but the humor and genre is only truly found in the franchise and feel that the abuse that is coming from "padman" and his gs that came from a number of games which he still hasn't mentioned or from which childish games is unnecessary basically the Internet is the the forum in which people can put forward their own views and let people make decisions on their own but don't disagree with everything said or you are part of the many which are destroying the freedom and fun that comes from the blogging community :)
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