B.E.D.A Day 28 - Portal 2 Single Player: A Review

So yesterday I completed Portal 2's single player, which was unbelievably awesome, and seeing as i may have to wait a while to play co-op seeing as the PSN is down currently due to its "technical difficulties" :\ I thought I might as well review the single player now and talk about the co-op whenever it is i get to play it. So Portal 2's single player is of course a continuation of the Portal 1 storyline, which Valve amended shortly before announcing Portal 2 with a video, which showed Chell being captured and put into stasis instead of escaping. You are woken up an indefinate amount of time after your incarceration by the AI core Wheatley, who is superbably voiced by The Office's Steven Merchant, who then attempts to help you escape from the crumbling and decaying Aperture testing facility, which due to years of neglect is full of rusted metal and plants that have broken in and flourished.

Unfortuanatly due to Wheatley's bumbling, but hilarious, ineptitude you accidently reactivate GLaDOS, aslo superbly voiced by Ellen McLain, the maniacal AI antagonist from the first game with an obsession with testing you "in the name of science" and so starts your quest to bring down GLaDOS once again and finally escape the Aperture Science testing facilty once and for all. For what may intially seem like a simple physics based puzzler, it has an incredibly deep storyline and canon, and through the course of the game you come to learn the history of Aperture Science, mainly through the charming voice of Aperture founder and CEO Cave Johnson, who is also amazingly voiced by J.K Simmons. What makes this game though, aside from the unique gameplay, is the superb cast of supporting characters who take centre stage in the game due to the muteness of the series' mute protagonist Chell, with the comments made by GLaDOS and Wheatley being absolutly hilarious most of the time, amplified by their robotic voices and lack of emotion, also with a few key characters appearing at the end that are also epically funny (SPOILER: IM IN SPAAAAAAAAAACCCCCEEEEEEE!!! :D)

The gameplay is relativly unchanged from Portal 1, though there is a lot more variaty this time around due to the inclusion of new devices such as Aerial Fath Plates, which catapult you through the air, and various gels in the later levels, that add a completly new twists to the game and how you "think with portals"

Overall Portal 2 is an absolutly superb game in almost every aspect and I would encourage anyone who has even a slight inkling to take a look at the game to go out an buy it, if you are a serious gamer you won't regret the purchase :)

Score: 10/10

Question: have you played Portal 2? what did you think of it?

DFTBA