Friday, May 6, 2011

Portal 2: The gateway to a new dimension to games

Tricky, funny, just terrific, Who much brain power to call its own, has in this game a real chance to see the end - no one else.

Do you know "Asterix conquers Rome, " the movie? In it, the two Gauls survive "the house to make you crazy. " And also your fate in "Portal 2 ". While Asterix and Obelix to grapple with bureaucracy, you have the pleasure with two wacky robots, a portal gun - and a lot of deadly rooms. Go through this, to save your life!

It sounds complicated - and that it is. Developer Valve, creator of "Half-Life"and therefore first choice for first-person shooter, has invented "Portal 2 " the genre of "ego-Knobler. The longer you play it, the more you have to deal with perspective, angles and basic principles of physics - from the permanent addition to your stupid comments all possible einprasselnden dead, mechanical or otherwise very vote. So real terror - terror has only rarely been so much fun!

Let's go slow

It is still all right at the beginning: As soon as the somewhat chaotic start to the game behind them and take the first tasks to tackle, you are making rapid progress: in a wall to shoot a portal into the wall behind the wide ditch another, then pass through both ready. You are on the other side and escape through a door in the next, something more difficult puzzles chamber.

And so you have already understood the whole game concept - the devil is here in the detail. Because by and by, you always get new and useful set meanness in my face, you must use appropriate in order to reach the exit of the room. For example, energy bands, which you use as a path. Their portals have in this case, the bands grow in the middle of the wall. Later you discover that a band is so good as a shield against wild ballernde robot guards - if you manage to cross it rather than install on edge. And at least at this point of the multi player is likely to move with so much ingenuity the hat. What in the portal 2 to put ideas to turn it into several other companies games.

And the bands are only a step on the way, later you arrive on gel in blue, white or orange. While the blue gel acts as a trampoline, Orange accelerated their movements as long as you run directly on the ground. With the white paint to the environment, and use portals even in dark places.

For those who are still feeling safe, whether the words in a dash must combine these gels is useful to reach the exit. Basically: At the beginning, the gel is never where you need it, but at the other end of the chamber. And now it's your turn: How do you get the orange gel right on the wall? How do you create the white stuff on the ceiling? And from where I throw myself at such a speed in a portal that I shoot out at the same speed from the other and so fly through half the room to the exit?

Almost unique

Although the actual gameplay is a little different, you feel to the classic "Lemmings" recalls. Where you had to transport a band of lemmings from A to B without losing too many. This is where the path from A to B just as important a role. But it suffices him back down himself. And "Tomb Raider" elements are related to: That one is beginning in a room and does not have the slightest idea what to there, many Lara fans will be familiar. Portal 2 is against Mrs Crofts claim but a joke - which fly into the people from Valve here are hard nuts.

Fun the whole thing only if one is really willing to engage in this crazy game idea. For despite occasional spongy control that lets you in falling ever miss a portal, are the stars in this game your little gray cells: without the right approach is nothing - and that is the action fan but in the long run on our nerves. Especially since the developers some new tools and which does not explain the entire game without a single assist.

Conclusion: Portal 2

Another gameplay, heavy tasks and puzzles, a great realization - with these concepts Portal 2 is well described. The gameplay is refreshing until you are properly incorporated into the matter, but mighty tricky. And it makes a lot of fun when you're as willing to reach with thought and consideration to the goal. For friends of cultivated experimentation is Portal 2, however, quickly became a nightmare: If you do not know why he does what has to stop.

Despite consistent refusal of the developer, any help to give the players at hand, Portal is part two of the highlights of 2011 and will certainly be in every hit list.

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