Game-Teched

With games coming and going so quickly its hard to really look at one of them and be that excited for it, but to put it bluntly, this thing looks freaking amazing. If you have played the original portal game I'm sure you know what I mean.

Portal is a physics-based puzzle game developed by valve, the same people who brought us half-life, Team Fortress, and many others, that received critical acclaim for its beautiful graphics, thick backstory, and challenging puzzles.

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Believe it or not, to complete the puzzles, you use a portal gun, given to you by a computer inside of Aperature Science's portal testing facility. I don't want to spoil anything but, at the end there's a large explosion and you (Chel in game) are knocked out, and put into a stasis for hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years. This is where Portal 2 comes in.

Aperature as a company has been gone for years, and you can see that the lab has been over-run by plants and animals, that is, until you wake up your old friend GlaDos, the robot that helped you through the puzzles in the first game, and you are whisked away while you watch the lab get comepletely rebuilt, and you must try to save yourself once again from the secret evils that lay dormant inside of the lab.

All and all Portal one was probably a gam e that would go onto my top games of the 2000's, especially in the PC genre where so many games have been dumbed down to reach a wider audience that could "understand" them better, with this ones rich and complex and odd backstory, to fully "play" the game you have to do research as to why your character is even there, and you have to do all this unless you just want to play around with a portal gun for 5 hours, which can be fun too.
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