Product Description
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The highly anticipated sequel to 2007's Game of the Year, Portal
2 is a hilariously mind-bending adventure that challenges you to
use wits over weaponry in a funhouse of diabolical science. Using
a highly experimental portal device, you’ll once again face off
against a lethally inventive, power-mad A.I. named GLaDOS. And
this time you won’t be alone. Meet an expanded cast of characters
as you think your way through dangerous, never-before-seen areas
of Aperture Laboratories. Break the laws of spatial physics in
ways you never thought possible, with a wider variety of portal
puzzles and an expansive story that spans a single player and
co-operative game mode.
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Portal 2 is a unique first-person Action-Puzzle-Platforming game
that tests player's ability to think and act creatively as they
use the game's ingenious wormhole creating portal to produce
their own paths through otherwise sealed surfaces and across the
open spaces of the game. Sequel to the original Portal game --
the surprise add-on hit included in Valve Corporation's 2007
release The Orange Box -- Portal 2 continues the storyline from
the first game, featuring both new and returning characters, and
poses a range of new challenges making for a much deeper game.
Additional features include a new two player co-op mode and an
original soundtrack.
Enjoy an expanded storyline as you return to Aperture
Laboratories to match wits with GLaDOS.
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New characters and functionality expand the Portal gameplay
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Win/Mac software that is playable on both PC and Macs.
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Welcome Back to Aperture Laboratories
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In Portal 2 players awake in the Aperture Science Labs as Chell,
the heroine of the original game. A great expanse of time has
passed since the conclusion of the first game and the gameworld
has fallen into visible disrepair, but placed in suspended
animation, Chell has survived intact and is revived. With the
help of a robotic entity the concluding events of the past game
are revealed and you escape your initial confinement, but in
doing so GLaDOS, the the AI computer antagonist from the previous
game is also reawakened. Just as fickle as ever, GLaDOS' motives
are unknown. Insisting on testing you, it may assist you but may
also be planning something more sinister.
Gameplay
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Like the original game, Portal 2 is a first-person
Platform-Puzzle game. In the single player campaign players
assume the role of Chell, a former test subject trying to gain
her freedom from the Aperture Science facility and GLaDOS, the AI
controller of the facility. Set in the test chambers of the
facility your goal is to make your way through the game levels
using your portal (the Aperture Science Handheld Portal
Device). The portal creates temporary passages through solid
surfaces, allowing for creative platforming and multiple possible
means of clearing a level. The game also requires the player to
solve puzzles at times to clear sections of levels. In addition
to point-to-point movement through portals, players can also
utilize other means of movement of themselves and various
objects. These include: using the momentum of portal movement to
make jumps to open positions like ledges; tractor beams; and
special propulsion/repulsion gels that can be carried or stored.
New Cooperative Mode
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Portal 2 contains a multiplayer option in the form of a
two-player co-op mode. This is playable both locally and online,
with split-screen functionality available in local play and in
select places during online play. Players assume the role of one
of two robotic characters, Atlas or P-body, both new to the
franchise. These two have separated from the control of GLaDOS
and so must survive its anger, divvied out in the form puzzles,
obstacles and misdirection. Each player has control of their own
portal , which they use to platform through the game levels,
avoiding its dangers and relying on each other.
Minimum System Requirements
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PC
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* OS - Windows 7, Vista, XP
* Processor - Dual Core 2.0 )or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
* RAM - 1 GB of RAM on Windows XP, 2 GB on Windows Vista or
Windows 7
* Hard Drive Space - 7.6 GB hard disk space
* Video Card - DirectX 9 graphics card with 128 MB RAM Sound card
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Mac
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* OS - Mac OS X v10.6.6 or later
* Processor - Intel Core Duo processor (2.0 GHz or better)
* RAM - 2 GB (or more)
* Hard Drive Space - 7.6 GB hard disk space (or more)
* Video Card - GeForce 8600M or ATI Radeon HD 2400 or higher
Key Game Features
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* Extensive single player game featuring next generation gameplay
and a wildly-engrossing story
* Complete two-person cooperative multiplayer game featuring its
own dedicated story, characters, and gameplay
* Advanced use of physics allow for the creation of a whole new
range of interesting challenges, producing a much larger but not
harder game
* Original soundtrack
* A massive sequel to the title named 2007's Game of the Year by
over 30 publications worldwide.
* Win/Mac software is PC and Macintosh compatible
Additional Screens
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- Extensive single player: Featuring next generation gameplay and a wildly-engrossing story..
- Complete two-person co-op: Multiplayer game featuring its own dedicated story, characters, and gameplay..
- Advanced physics: Allows for the creation of a whole new range of interesting challenges, producing a much larger but not harder game..
- Massive sequel: The original Portal was named 2007's Game of the Year by over 30 publications worldwide..
- The single-player portion of Portal 2 introduces a cast of dynamic new characters, a host of fresh puzzle elements.
- A much larger set of devious test chambers..