5/19/2023 0 Comments Portal reloaded walkthroughIt nails the atmosphere of the original games it completely shakes up and revamps the mechanics while staying true to the formula. Something the original games excelled at. Even as you’re making your way through the 25 chambers on offer you get the impression of something sinister lurking beneath the surface. Similar to how Neo felt when he first emerged from the Matrix. You awaken as you’re being thawed from cryo-sleep and you can only marvel at the sheer number of similar subjects in their own chambers. The opening scene of this game also leaves you in no doubt that your character is just a nameless subject to be used and discarded by the Aperture facility. The vast expanse of the areas in between the testing chambers really gives the impression of the size of the Aperture Lab. While the story may be kept lean, the atmosphere in Portal games has always been second to none, I find. Remember to put on your 4-Dimensional thinking cap! There’s a deeper level to the lore that you can find if you go looking for it (there are a lot of interesting theories online as to the true identity of Rat-Man) and this game is no different. The Portal series has never really had much of an in-depth story, with most of the narrative basically revolving around trying to destroy various maniacal robots. However, it would have been nice to have seen some new particle effects or maybe some nicer lighting around the Portals you’ll be shooting all over the place. That thing was hardly a dedicated gaming rig. I remember being able to run Portal 2 on the laptop I used for college 8 years ago. Portal 2, much like GLaDOS herself run on something not much more sophisticated than a potato. It’s great insofar as it allows basically anyone now to play. This is a good and a bad thing if you ask me. Portal Reloaded doesn’t touch the old-school Aperture aesthetic, which is a nice touch, but it also doesn’t do anything to update the graphics at all. On the visual side, it’s business as usual too. What are the visuals like? This is a potato battery a toy for children! And now she lives in it! Suffice to say the standard gameplay and level design is here again and you’ll need to remember how to think with Portals in order to succeed. This would mean that the item ceased to exist in the present so couldn’t exist in the future. For instance, you can bring a cube or turret from the future to the present, but you can’t bring the same item from the present to the future. Likewise, the laws of causality will come into play and prohibit you from doing certain things with certain objects in some chambers. For instance, some mechanisms or features of a particular chamber may be decayed or dysfunctional in the future, while they’re pristine and in perfect working order in the present. The Time Portal is key to solving every puzzle and it brings with it a number of interesting twists on the standard layout of each chamber. You’ll be picking up weighted storage cubes to place them on switches, you’ll be destroying turrets (while they lament their fate) and you’ll be creating lots and lots of portals. The only difference is the aforementioned Time Portal. Since this is a mod for Portal 2 the gameplay is essentially identical to the previous entries in the franchise. Portal Reloaded literally adds another dimension to the series. The Green portal doesn’t allow you to access a far-off area in the Testing Chamber, it allows you to travel 20 years forward (and backward) in time. This game gives you your normal Orange and Blue portals that allow you to pass from one area to another instantaneously, but this time you also get a rectangular Green portal. You are an anonymous Test Subject in the long-abandoned Aperture Science testing facility and you have been tasked with assessing the effects of the latest in Portal technology. The basic premise of the game is identical to that of its predecessors. Even if you don’t have it yet, Portal 2 is €8 on Steam so it’s hardly going to break the bank. Portal Reloaded came out on Steam a couple of weeks ago and is free to download for anyone who owns Portal 2.
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