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Portal 2 is the eagerly awaited and visually breathtaking sequel to the ingenious and innovatively created game Portal, 2007's Game of the Year. This first person puzzle solving platform game has blown the minds of gamers the world over with its riveting storyline and vibrant graphics, and has finally returned with a sequel worthy of its predecessor. This futuristic game has been engineered to bend the laws of physics at will, and challenges you to keep your wits about you with every step you take, with puzzles that place brain over brawn.

Play as the protagonist Chell, a human test subject who awakens in the Aperture Science Enrichment Centre after being kept in stasis for many years. The Laboratories in which you find yourself once again are now in disrepair, due to the Artificial Intelligence robot villain GLaDOS murdering all of the scientists who worked there. Now dormant, you accidentally awaken her in your attempt to escape, and she challenges you once more to a series of test chambers. Unravel the mystics and science that enshroud the power hungry GlaDOS as you make your way through, allowing this uniquely complex storyline to unfold with every chamber you conquer.

Your character will still possess the portal gun, an experimental portal device that can break the laws of spatial physics by creating inter-spatial portals between two flat planes, allowing you to transport yourself at will. You will also be able to produce tractor beams, laser redirection, bridges made of light, and gels that give the objects they cover special properties; all of this is designed to help you make your way through the test chambers. These challenges have been completely revamped in order to offer you, the player, even more to pique your interest throughout, expanding the world you grew to know and love in the original Portal.

Alongside the incredibly rich storyline, superb character development, visually stunning environments, witty dialogue, and the helpful experimental devices provided, there is also a keenly developed co-operative mode to be enjoyed. The co-op picks up right after the single player left off with its own ingenious and original storyline, and you and your team mate will both seize control of two robots and continue the story of the Aperture Science Enrichment Centre. This completely unique campaign allows you to tackle a whole host of new and original test chambers with the help of your partner, each one designed to put both of your minds to the test as you navigate your way through. The level of challenge is raised as you have to incorporate both of your portal guns, and reach a new high of coordination and communication in order to escape GlaDOS' clutches. (Cat Emerson)

An example of a robot jumping through one of the famous portals

One of the robots, keeping hold of a cube as they go through a portal, with the entrance in the background

An example of the scenery type the game offers

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The wait was worth it

5 stars out of a maximum of 5

The wait for Portal 2 was worth every second. I finished the game in a satisfying 8 hours with some very challenging puzzles, and with Valve's usual sense of humour in the Portal series, this game had me grinning at every small events in the game. Voice acting in this game was spot on, Stephan Merchant and Cave Johnson did a bloody good job with capturing the character's personality. All in all, this game is fantastic. I would definitely re-play it in the not too distant future.

2011-11-17by SchnellSnail

Superb

5 stars out of a maximum of 5

This game is the greatest fun. I enjoyed plaing the first Portal very much, but Portal 2 has reached a higher standard. The Co-op mode is particularly nice. I spent quite some time plaing it with a friend and the comments in the game are just too good to be true. I´d recommend this game to just about anyone, because everyone would love it.

2011-10-11by Niklas

AWESOME!!

5 stars out of a maximum of 5

Great game, the sense of humor is just amazing, the guys at valve just have made the best puzzle game since ages. And while doing that, making a graphically great game as well. The only little remark is that the puzzles could have been a little harder, but other then that, great value for money, awesome game:D!!!

2011-09-08by lethalshadow

portal 2 critic

5 stars out of a maximum of 5

While Portal was a great game, Portal 2 is still up to challenge the first title by adding different tools to play with such as paint, jumpers, light footpath, and so on. Humour is there all along the well paced solo game. You'll get some nice coop to play which bring the ability to open 4 portals at the same time making puzzle room quite challenging. Voice acting is great. Great game !

2011-09-08by Sickouz

5 stars out of a maximum of 5

Portal 2 is an excellent sequel. It's twice as long and twice as good with new interesting gameplay mechanics that will have your head in a puzzle. Portal 2 is one of the most intelligent and the most hilarious game of the year and In my mind game of the year. A must buy!

2011-09-05by Sharp

Immense!!

5 stars out of a maximum of 5

Portal 2 is an immense game! Portal game, you will absolutely love this one! I would strongly suggest to everyone that they buy this for their collection.

2011-08-13by Lil Blinx

Highly recommended, well done Valve!

5 stars out of a maximum of 5

A great step up from the original game. Enhanced graphics and a great story line to follow it, A great step up from the original Portal game. I found it a bit harder than the original as well as being more intense and graphically better. I had high expectations which were met from Valve as I thoroughly enjoyed Portal 2. It is very funny, and at times scary, but this is due to the sheer scale of the game. Highly recommended!

2011-08-13by Kranish

POOOOOrtaaaaals

5 stars out of a maximum of 5

I played Portal 1 already a while ago, and loved the concept. Therefore I couldn't wait for the release of Portal 2. Once it was available, I directly bought it, and had my share of playtime in the first few days. The singleplayer story is great, and the multiplayer puzzles are excellent. Even though you can finish the story line in just a few hours, it's worth playing over and over again. You really need to buy this!

2011-08-04by marimii

Amazing!

4 stars out of a maximum of 5

This is definately the most hilarious game I have ever played, where every line of dialogue is either a witty response to another character or just an insult thrown in your direction. Stephen Merchant surpassed my expectations in the game with his comedic effort to make his character 'Wheatley' as lively and as interesting as possible which, for me succeeded. I thoroughly enjoyed the 6 -7 hours of gameplay in Portal 2 which brings back and adapts on what Portal bought to the gaming industry. Without spoiling too much, this game brings a lot more to the table as different gels are now getting involved along with various other materials requiring the player to think outside the box in order to complete every upcoming level. The story is as great as you'd expect any Valve creation to be as Portal 2 refers a lot to the original Portal story, though doesn't directly continue from it. Though I undoubtedly enjoyed this game I feel as though there will be next to no replay value in it, which is the reason for my regretful 4 Star Rating. I have not referred to the online / co-op content as I feel Single Player is the controlling and most important aspect of any game as where Multiplayer is more of an... addon than anything else. People should make their judgement to buy a game solely based on the Single Player! Overall I found Portal 2 an excellent game, constantly making me think of new ways to complete every puzzle it presented me. It was certainly a challenge and that's what's made Portal 2 one of my highest rated games of all time!

2011-06-06by Ryan69

True Cleverness

5 stars out of a maximum of 5

If you liked the first game this really needs no introduction. Portal 2 enhances the portal puzzing experience with an engrossing story that unfolds during the game and all new puzzle elements that will wrack the brains of even the most experienced player of the first game. An incredible experience and a must buy you will want to play over and over again.

2011-05-23by Lincolnno1