For Christmas I got the game Portal 2 for Playstation 3. I played it around right after I played Little Big Planet 2. I played only a little of the story as the plot was a little confusing. A while after I had some spare time and I read up on the Portal plot from Wikipedia. It made much more sense now but I see now this is a series where there is meant to be a little mystery. If one of those gamers who wants to know everything than just head up to the Portal wiki and it should answer any questions you might have. Portal is made by Valve. So I think your name is Chell. You wake up and start the game in a stasis bed in a small room. A machine called Glados spelled GLaDOS instructs and warns you about an upcoming test situation. The reward for beating all 19 test chambers is cake and grief counseling. You use a portal gun to beat these tests. So if you had a white floor and the exit to the level was up high on the ledge and a white wall was behind it you could shoot a orange portal at the floor and shoot a blue portal at that wall than jumping in the floor portal would make you pop out the blue one so you could get out. (I say white wall because in the game white walls are the only things you can put a portal on).
The crystalline white test chambers
The dirty rooms behind the walls
As the test goes on the puzzle like gameplay gets increasingly difficult and the hazards become deadly. Ever so often Glados even makes lies and little half truths about the hazards. Eventually even facing you up against military drones with real machine guns. Bloods stains, bloody handprints mold, and warnings from past test subjects appear on the walls. The most famous being "the cake is a lie" and a enormous amount of tallymarks supposedly the days stuck there. The creepy drawings and words are found mostly in areas where rooms behind the walls have been struck open by a glitch in the testing area where they past subject had its final days.
The drawings
If you don't complete the chamber you are stuck there, eventually to die from thirst of hazardous areas. Chell eventually completes the test and tries to escape. Here's not spoiling everything and all you really need to know is you are forced to try escaping Aperture labs once again through the test chambers. Everything else will become clear.
The gameplay is like a first person shooter but your never shooting anything but portals. To get to the end of each test chamber you do things such as, picking up a cube to weigh down a button, refracting laser beams into the wall mounted device, therefore triggering something. There are also momentum based moments like this:
If you go in one portal fast then you came out the other portal fast too until gravity intervenes to much.
Portal 2 is a great game and I definitely enjoy it. If you have a Steam account you can get Portal free for PC. Bye and know that the cake is indeed a lie.
A replica of the Portal gun.
By Ashton
the cake is a lie? hmmm….
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