Jarvis Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Release dates: * NA - April 18, 2011 * EU - April 22, 2011 * AUS - April 21, 2011 Welcome to Aperture Laboratories The highly anticipated sequel to 2007's Game of the Year, Portal 2 is a hilariously mind-bending adventure that challenges you to use wits over weaponry in a funhouse of diabolical science. Using a highly experimental portal device, you’ll once again face off against a lethally inventive, power-mad A.I. named GLaDOS. And this time you won’t be alone. Meet an expanded cast of characters as you think your way through dangerous, never-before-seen areas of Aperture Laboratories. Break the laws of spatial physics in ways you never thought possible, with a wider variety of portal puzzles and an expansive story that spans a single player and co-operative game mode. Praise for Portal * "An astounding accomplishment; part abstract brainteaser, part sci-fi thriller, part black comedy. Imagine being stuck inside a 3D puzzle with a playfully cruel sense of humour." Charlie Brooker, The Guardian UK * "Sinister, sardonic and stunningly realised… Valve's idiosyncratic extra [is] a work of genius." Top 10 Games of the Decade, The Guardian UK * "A masterpiece... One of the decade's best villains." Best Games of the Decade, The Onion AV Club * "One of the most influential games of the decade." Wired Magazine * "Ingenious." USA Today * "Brilliantly designed, innovative, witty and wonderfully devious... Absolute genius." Game of the Year, Eurogamer * "Phenomenal in every sense of the word." Game of the Year, Joystiq After its release in 2007, the original Portal quickly went from being an afterthought addition to Valve's jam-packed The Orange Box release to being an over-referenced cornerstone of nerd culture. Now that "The cake is a lie," "Still Alive' and the Weighted Companion Cube have had some time to go from clever to tired to kitsch and back again, Portal's tightly constructed first-person puzzle gameplay and interwoven story have stood on their own as a new classic. Valve has taken its time crafting the sequel into something much grander than the brilliant-but-short experience of the original (which was based on student project Narbacular Drop). The company has kept anticipation high with a slow but steady drip of demos, trailers and information regarding the game, stressing the title's new co-operative mode and a helpfully British spherical artificial intelligence guide Wheatley. More open environments and new gameplay elements like propulsion gel promise to expand the original game's variety of puzzles as well. Though a two-month delay has pushed this long-anticipated title's release back to April, the fact that the game has a firm release date at all makes it one of the least hard-to-wait-for games on this list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Not usually one of these guys but this should go in the gaming forum. On topic: I am extremely excited for this game, Portal was an amazing game, can't wait to see the sequel. I do know that there's no way in hell they'll be able to top the song from the end of Portal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarvis Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 Not usually one of these guys but this should go in the gaming forum. On topic: I am extremely excited for this game, Portal was an amazing game, can't wait to see the sequel. I do know that there's no way in hell they'll be able to top the song from the end of Portal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Yep, was an accident, it'll be moved in a bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorkey Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Is the cake still a lie? D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danman99 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 AMAZING game.... can't wait for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Beyond stoked. They're taking preorders now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChenWei91 Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Battlefield 3 and Portal 2 are the two games I know I'm definitely getting this year. So effing pumped!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Trick Maker Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 I thoroughly enjoyed the first game, though I was disappointed that it was kind of short. I beat the game the night I bought The Orange Box (I stayed up late just to finish the game though LOL). Hopefully the second game is much, much longer. By the way, I think this game is really...overhyped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoggyDepot Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 The online coop is what has had me excited about this game for a while, should be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-SN- Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 It's gonna be a rough year. BF3 Portal 2 Dragon Age Skyrim Shogun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCt2nZF2nLk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 For the original Portal, Valve tapped obscure nerd-rock icon Jonathan Coulton to deliver the science-experiment-gone-nightmare puzzler's iconic end-credit tune, "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthZgszykLs," to huge success. For Portal 2, Valve has again enlisted indie rock help, announcing today that it has secured the talent of The National to write an original song for the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Truculence Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Portal 2 preview If the idea of Portal 2 spoilers fills you with DREAD and TERROR, please hollow out the nearest Weighted Companion Cube and stick your head in it. Or look away. I had it spoiled for me by Valve of all people, who sat me down and forced me to play the first 45 minutes of their dark, comedic FPS puzzle game. For science. Those monsters. It begins in a hotel room. Over the tannoy, an unfamiliar voice – male, flat, not brimming with psychosis – explains that I’m part of an experiment, and they need to check my mental wellbeing. I’m told to appreciate a painting on the wall, (“this is art”) before being ordered to bed. I awake to a broken room, the relaxing, neutral colours smeared with grime. The recorded voice tapers off: “you have been in suspension for 999999…” then another, more characterful voice chimes in. Wheatley, one of the leftover personality spheres of the wrecked GLaDOS, is trying to get my attention. His nervous English voice, that of Ricky Gervais’ comedy partner Stephen Merchant, is another indicator that while Valve might not have known what they had with the original Portal, this time around they’re a lot more confident. Wheatley isn’t the spare, precise, GLaDOS: he’s chatty and lonely and needs my help. Chell is all he’s got left. My room is moveable. It’s one of 10,000 in a vast rack. Wheatley moves it, chatting all the while as it swings and crumbles. The more holes that appear, the more I see of Aperture Science beyond. It’s big. Black Mesa big. But the walls have fallen from neglect. The outside world is vaguely visible through these gaps, a hazy glow in the distance. After Wheatley applies a brief “manual override” to an inconvenient wall (he uses my room to bludgeon it down), I scramble into the facility. The portal gun awaits, as do some of the old test chambers, but hundreds of years of neglect have changed everything. There’s life where there were once sterile white walls. Birds caw, the light feels natural, everything’s tangled in weeds. In a repeat of the first game’s tutorial, I get a portal gun with just one function: placing blue portals. But the game is a lot less cagey about introducing me to the complexities of the tests: three puzzles in and I’m led to one where I need to pop a portal under a cube to get it over to a super colliding super button that leads me to two more switches, one that drops a cube on a slanted panel so it slides into a vat of sludge, another that flips up a section of the floor. I pop a portal on the slanted panel and the cube flies through the fixed portal on the wall above, into the sludge. Next try, I flip the floor section up and it stops the cube flying into the sludge. So it’s a lot denser than Portal. Things get more complex a lot sooner, and the world is almost overwhelmingly detailed. There are warning videos everywhere, one warns of a potential ‘Animal King Takeover’. A dangerous puzzle is accompanied by light jazz to make it more relaxing. In one room there’s a story mural of the history of Aperture Science, showing the moment GLaDOS took over and Chell’s later defeat of her. There’s a giant painting of Chell, as if whoever’s been left behind worships her as a god. And three characters are introduced: the flat voiced, male anti-GLaDOS, Wheatley, and eventually GLaDOS herself. She wakes (“We’ve both said a lot of things you’re going to regret.”), dumps me into the incinerator room and talks of living her death over and over and over again. She was already mad, now she’s focused. This, I guess, is where the new puzzle elements will start coming into play, such as the special gels. She has all these new tools to mess with, but I’m not allowed to see those yet. The rest of the game will remain a mystery until release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truculence Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 New video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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7thMan Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 It got 9.5 on IGN and apparently you get a free PC copy if you buy it for PS3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DollarAndADream Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I'm debating either this or Mortal Kombat. I keep almost deciding on this but MK just creeps back in my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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