Portal 2: Singleplayer Review {Spoiler Freeish}

Notice: If you have yet to play portal 1 or portal 2, you may want to view other stuff ;)

Portal 2 takes what portal 1 had and made it even better!  I'm sure many have gotten confused with some challenges, like me :P,  portal 2 makes you work harder to think with portals to solve challenges.

You wake up in a bedroom type deal(60'ish?), a voice then tells you to complete a small check-up, this part of the game acts like a tutorial on the basic movement of the game. After you complete the check-up, the voice sends you back to sleep.
Sometime later you wake up, the voice you hear suggests you've been asleep for 9999…999… You have been woken up by Wheatley, a personality core, which has come to rescue you. The deterioration of your pod is not limited, as you will become aware when Wheatley "zips" you to safty. So you begin a very different, yet familiar game in Portal 2.

As with portal 1, you are challenged to think with portals, and make your way from point A to B. However, in portal 2 you are not limited to just test chambers, you will find yourself in many types of environments with overgrown wildlife, areas outside of the test chambers, as well as early testing facilities and the industrial heart of the structure. Portal 2 also adds 22 identifiable test chambers (3 more than portal 1, not including the boss room), it also provides other connecting areas giving the player more game play(about 5 hours). In portal 2 you are introduced to 3 kinds of gel, Repulsion gel which is blue and bounces you, red Propulsion gel which increases your momentum and Conversion gel which is white and apparently made from ground down moon rocks. If you think it ends there, wrong, force fields, gravity manipulation and lasers have been added, as well as the classics of buttons requiring cubes to hold down, and turrets. Everything comes together to give you a fresh, very fun gameplay experience that doesn’t get old.

The narration provides a comedic backdrop to the game as you play through the otherwise lonely levels. Turrets also make their somewhat comedic talkative return! I played portal 2 without any help or walk threw, but this leads me to another point, I wounder how many easter-egg related things portal 2 holds. The story telling is awesome, you learn a lot more about the origin of Aperture Science and it’s creator, and how things got where they are today.

Coming to the end of my review, I must give credit to the developers that the graphics are still sharp and crisp, and offering some amazing visuals. Portal 2 deserves its score of 9.6/10

•Graphics - 9/10

•Game Play - 10/10

•Story - 10/10