Like Half-Life 2, Portal was a personal journey, with Chell’s interactions with GlaDOS and the environment at large perfectly pitched to immerse the player on an unbroken one-to-one level. But despite the new characters, Portal 2 is… #6 It's still all Named Wheatley, he’s become frustrated by his static nature (the cores are all constrained by being attached to rails in certain rooms), and realising that jumping from his perch with probably smash his insides out, he reactivates Chell for help.
One of these cores is responsible for the whole story.
Instead, Valve has been characteristically smart by populating the labs with sentient personality cores (that warehouse full of computerised brain balls at the end of Portal had to be for something, right?)
Such as… #5 Talking NPCsĭon’t go fearing an Aperture Science populated with atmosphere-killing human characters. But there are even more key changes to the environment. Unless of course, it’s a double-bluff, and she’s secretly watching you the whole time. So as well as seeing more of the place and its sordid back-story, your relationship with the ever-present digital dominatrix will constantly be broken up and punctuated with periods of tense silence. So as she reconfigures the test chambers, she’ll have to send you through a great deal more of the broken-down ‘back-stage’ areas you explored at the end of the first Portal. With the whole place in a state of extreme decay, GLaDOS’ attempts to restart the testing procedure are obviously up against a few challenges. You’ll also see a lot more of the Aperture labs. This creates a captivating visual style (gleaming white sterility juxtaposed with sprawling organic life and sunlight), but also opens up much more varied environmental navigation possibilities. While the pristine testing chambers remain, many of them have fallen apart and become overgrown with plant-life. In that time, the wrecked Aperture Science facilities have gone to wrack and ruin. For example… #4 It%26rsquo s setĬhell has been in stasis for at least a couple of centuries. Everything is the same, but at the same time, everything is now different. Given the tense and beautifully nuanced relationship built between her and GLaDOS in the first game, Valve is eager to build upon what has gone before. With the recent update to the first game extending the ending to show Chell dragged back into Aperture Science following her escape, it’s now confirmed that she’ll be the protagonist again.
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