Someone To Drive You Home

With the year over I’m going to quickly churn through some of the important games of 2011 that I missed out.

The problem with most sequels is that they are basically the same with a few tweaks and portal 2 defiantly has that but it brings a great cast along for the ride this time which makes a massive difference. Wheatley was a fantastic character and maybe my favourite of 2011 in any medium. Stephen merchant out did himself and if he doesn’t turn up elsewhere in the half life universe I will be very disappointed.

The gameplay itself remains largely unchanged with portals being your bread and butter. The extra tools like bridges and gels where cool but nothing as mind blowing as the portal gun was. While I realise it’s unrealistic for me to expect lightening to strike twice you always hope a developer can pull it off.

The story stuff is fun although I think they could have done away with the whole visit the old parts of aperture labs and had a much tighter game. Not to say its padding the game out it justifies it’s existence but I didn’t really enjoy the Cave Johnstone jokes as much.

All in all it’s worth playing if you enjoyed the original. I never got a shot of the co op(such is the lot of a rental gamer) but I’ve heard it was really fun. As a rental it’s really a no brainier.