Saturday 28 May 2011



Valve has done it again with the second edition of the smash hit challenge game Portal. Portal 2 takes what we all know and love from version 1, strapped a brand new co-op mode to it and made it even better. Portal is a unique challenge game that make you think in ways that other games just don’t.
With first person shooters renowned for senseless gun slinging fun, Portal 2 has a completely different take on the FPS. Sure in some levels you reach frustration that makes you wish you had an AK-47 on-board, but the sense accomplishment after getting through is one of the most rewarding emotions a gamer can feel.
Can you believe its been more than 4 years since the last edition, Valve please take the profits from Portal 2, expand your crack team of creatives and deliver us a bunch of new test chambers each year !
While always visually interesting, about my only criticism is that visually Portal 2 didn’t blow me away. There were certainly momentous occasions when environments would move and react in ways you had expected or reveal a scale that made you feel the size of an ant. There were however times where textures were relatively low by today’s standards. Its good thing the game is so engaging or this may be a big issue.. it wasn’t.

All in all, Portal 2 is a great game, I give it a 10/10. If it wasn't for Wheatley, played by British comedian Stephen Merchant, it would've only been a 9. :P

14 comments:

  1. Wheatley is a great guy. I wish I were that British.

    Best game I've played in a few years to be honest. Glad to hear we think alike!

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  2. Comedians or not, 5 hours of content for 60$ is absurd. It's a good laugh and everything but they needed to expand the coop mode. Still a good game none the less

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  3. Day 1 DLC was defiantly a minus for me. otherwise i agree GOTY11 material

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  4. I liked the first part. That being said I stil had a lot of fun with Portal 2. Stephen Merchant was awesome. Maybe they'll get Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington for Portal 3 :)

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  5. True.
    At first I thought portal will just be a side project of Valve, like a sub-project.
    But it turns out that this game is totally mind-blowing.

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  6. i love this game however to me it gets boring after a while

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  7. I havcn't gotten my hands on a copy of the game, but I'm eager to play it, even though I'm not necessarily what you'd call a gamer.

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  8. portaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal

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  9. good review and yea it is a great freaking game!

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  10. I agree, Wheatley really made the game that much better, I laughed my ass off all the time when he'd talk.

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  11. i can't wait to try this game

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  12. @Fermium Death Yup. Portal was the last game from the Orange Box that I played, yet it was the best one.

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