Summary
Portal 2 has been a hot topic of discussion over the last couple of months. Most gamers we know are talking about it, and even those who have never played the first game are intrigued as to what all the fuss is about. Indeed, if this next iteration of the portal-popping puzzler doesn’t top the charts on hype and positive word-of-mouth alone — even before anyone has taken it out of the shrink-wrapping — then I’d be totally amazed. Hype, of course, can be a very bad thing and can destroy games totally if they fail to live up to their billing. Yet, from the moment Portal 2 was announced, I haven’t once been worried that Valve would let us down.Portal introduced such great technology with the portal gun and laid down a solid framework from which to gain further inspiration; the sequel simply had to be even better. The good news is: Portal 2 doesn’t disappoint. From the captivating storyline and the casting of the brilliant Stephen Merchant as Wheatley, to the sheer volume of challenging test chambers and the ingenuity that has gone into their design, Portal 2 is everything it promised to be and much more.
