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Even a decade ago, portals still make it fun to play. Portal 2 takes everything that was great about the brief first-person puzzle game from Valve’s Orange Box and builds upon it substantially. Portal is based around the portal gun. It allows the user to project two portals on walls, floors or ceilings. The portal guns allow you to move from one side to the other like doorways. Following the events of Portal, series heroine Chell has to escape an Aperture Science facility yet again, while learning of the company’s sometimes hilarious, but always intriguing, history from its founder, Cave Johnson.

You can find many different ways to play the portal gun game. Some of them involve gravity and inertia. Others use dopey gun turret targets systems. Gels are a kind of goopy liquid that can be used as paint to cover test sites. Chell is able to use each color to make portals and move faster or bounce on surfaces where they might not otherwise fit. Portal 2 features a separate cooperative campaign in which two people take on the role of P-body and ATLAS, robots. While co-op is just as creative as single-player level, it requires both creativity and timing as well as coordination. It also asks for the same skills from each player. Our Review Are you looking to start “thinking with portals?” The best ways to experience this puzzle classic on modern hardware is on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One X via backward compatibility or the ever-reliable PC version. | Our Review