When I first began playing the original Portal, I was skeptical. The premise simply didn’t sound very interesting to me. The only thing that convinced me to play it was the recommendation of a friend who is normally very picky about his games – so I figured if he likes it, why not give it a try?

In short, I’m very glad I decided to play Portal. It’s a puzzle game at heart, but it has such an engaging story and great sense of humor that I found myself yearning for more “tests” after I’d beaten the game. Most of the game revolves around testing rooms, which after some manipulation using the portal gun, will allow you to progress to the next room. If you’ve seen the movie Cube, it’s somewhat like that: you move from one death trap of a room to the next.

So you’d think that when Portal 2 was announced, I’d be excited. Actually, I was just the opposite. I was convinced that the designers would never be able to recreate another Portal game and have it work as perfectly as the first one did. I was wrong.
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