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Portal 2 (2011)

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Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Valve Corporation.
It is the sequel to Portal (2007) and was released on April 19, 2011 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
The retail versions of the game are distributed by Electronic Arts, while digital distribution of the Windows and OS X versions is handled by Valve's content delivery service,Steam.
Portal 2 was announced on March 5, 2010, following a week-long alternate reality game based on new patches to the original game.
The sequel's release on Steam was preceded by a second multi-week alternate reality game, the Potato Sack,
involving 13 independently-developed titles which culminated in a distributed computing spoof to release Portal 2 several hours early.
Like its predecessor, Portal 2 primarily comprises a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player's character and simple objects using the "portal gun",
a device that can create inter-spatial portals between two flat planes.
The game's modified physics engine allows momentum to be retained through these portals, which must be used creatively to maneuver through the game's challenges.
In addition to retaining most of the original Portal's gameplay elements, the sequel added new features, including tractor beams, laser redirection, bridges made of light,
and paint-like gels that give surfaces special properties (e.g. accelerating the player's speed, allowing them to jump higher).
These gels were created by the team from the Independent Games Festival-winning DigiPen student project Tag: The Power of Paint.
Within the single-player campaign, the player returns as the human Chell, having awakened from stasis after many years.
Chell must navigate the now-dilapidated Aperture Science Enrichment Center with the portal gun while the facility is rebuilt by the reactivated GLaDOS,
an artificially-intelligent computer that appeared in Portal as its main antagonist.
The storyline is longer than that of Portal's, and introduced new characters, including: Wheatley, a personality core voiced by Stephen Merchant; and recordings of Cave Johnson,
the deceased CEO of Aperture Science voiced by J. K. Simmons.
Ellen McLain reprised the role of GLaDOS. Jonathan Coulton and The National produced one song each for the game.
Portal 2 also includes a two-player co-operative mode,
in which the robotic player-characters Atlas and P-Body are each given a portal gun and are required to work together to solve test chambers specifically designed to require co-operation.
Valve provided post-release support for the game, including additional downloadable content and a simplified map editor to allow players to create and share test chambers with others.
Though many reviewers were initially concerned about the difficulty of expanding Portal into a full sequel, critics universally praised Portal 2.
The game's writing, pacing, and dark humor were highlighted as stand-out elements, with critics applauding the voice work of McLain, Merchant, and Simmons.
Reviews also highlighted the new gameplay elements, the game's challenging but surmountable learning curve, and the additional co-operative mode.
Numerous gaming journalists ranked Portal 2 among the top games of 2011, including several naming it their Game of the Year.

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