

Hundreds of years later, she is frantically awoken by Wheatley, a chatty spherical robot, to a rapidly decaying Aperture Science facility. Piloting a blimp.”Īfter killing the evil AI - named GLaDOS - in the original Portal, the player’s character Chell is dragged back into the Aperture Science research facility and put into cryogenic stasis. Portal 2 attended to each of the deficiencies of its predecessor, and the result is a truly great game-playing experience. And sure enough, Portal 2 was different from Portal - different in all the right ways. Not much was known about Portal 2 before its launch, but one thing that was certain was that it would have to be different from the original on some fundamental levels. It was a groundbreaking game, but by the time Valve, Portal’s creator, released extra Portal test chambers in 2008, the concept had been stretched to its limit. By applying this simple idea in different ways, the player navigated through test chambers of increasing difficulty, all while evading the once-helpful robotic test administrator’s attempts to hurt your feelings (and kill you). It was a very short, polished game based on a novel concept - players wield a portal gun that can fire a blue or orange portal onto certain surfaces, and things that go through one portal come out the other, preserving their speed and relative direction. The original Portal was released in 2007 to critical acclaim.
