About a 4th of the way through it became very obvious that the characters would be making jokes on every level at the exact same queues. For a game with a silent protagonist, all of the other characters talk like their in a Kevin Smith movie. GLaDOS continues to be chatty along with the wonderfully voiced Wheatley.
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In fact I think it might be almost overwhelming. The humor from the first game is still present. While this may seem like nothing more than cosmetic difference, it allows for GLaDOS’ character to shine as she acknowledged the problems with the rooms and comments on her attempts to repair them. Its nice that Valve took some time to create a bit more of a story framework upfront, but it was very comfortable to be back in the test rooms, and GLaDOS agrees.īecause of the time spent in stasis, and with GLaDOS dead, the test areas have fallen into disrepair. Through an accident, GLaDOS gets woken and the situation begins to resemble the original Portal: GLaDOS+You+Test Chambers. After an amazingly animated opening sequence, and Wheatley’s informal and frantic introduction, you are dropped into the test rooms. Your character of Chell has been in stasis for quite a long time and Wheatley is breaking you out of the Aperture Science Labs. Wheatley, an artificially intelligent personality core, similar to GLaDOS, is the first character you meet when starting the game. As one of the most anticipated games of the year, Portal 2 had extremely high expectations to live up to, and I’m not sure that in the end it lives up to all of them.
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While Portal 2 picks up where the first one left off, in both game design and style, it also takes the characters through settings and back stories that no one could have seen coming. GLaDOS and Chell are back and as promised by Valve their adventure is bigger and more ambitious than the modest Orange-Box-included original Portal.