15 years ago today, Valve released Portal 2, one of the best puzzle-platformer games ever made.
Original puzzle The Portal adventure was an unexpected surprise that came out of a student paper. Its sequel, which went on sale in 2011, was a high-production product and one of the unforgettable masterpieces of video game design.
Portal 2 built on the idea of going through the portals we create using the appropriate tool. In simple mechanics gameplaya they were inserted gels of different colors and physical properties, but the biggest novelty was a clearly defined story with excellent characters such as GLaDOS, Wheatley the Cave Johnson. A special spice in the story was the charming humor that was once a hit on the Internet.
In addition to the campaign for one player, Portal 2 also brought a separate adventure for two. In it, we controlled cute robots Atlasa i P-Bodya through five different tests. A novelty at the time was that players on the PC and then PlayStation 3 could play together.
In addition to the campaign for one player, Portal 2 also brought a separate adventure for two.
It is an interesting fact that Valve initially considered the idea of completely removing portals from Portal 2, but they gave up because portals were the trademark of the series. It is also interesting that Portal 2 was for nine years Valve’s last game single-player contentsuntil the release of Half-Life: Alyx.
Today, Porta 2 is available in digital editions for PC, Xbox One and Series consoles, and Nintendo Switch. We in the HCL editorial office are extremely fond of this game and have placed it among the ten best games of the last decade.
A huge amount of unofficial expansions and mods have been released for Portal 2. Among them are extremely appreciated Portal Stories: Mel, Portal Reloaded and others. Each of them is free to play, and the only limitation is that these contents are only available on PC or Steam.