Portal 2 [Platinum] - Boxed - PS3

Portal 2 is the sequel to Portal and offers the same first-person puzzle-platformer gameplay. Players continue the story by taking on the role of the young woman Chell, who defeated the artificial intelligence GLaDOS in the first game. After the events of the first game, she was placed in stasis until she finally woke up again. The sequel is once again set in the Aperture Science Labs, which have since been overrun by decay and nature. Much more than in the first game, Chell moves beyond the clean test chambers and explores the grim industrial surroundings of the lab.

Just as in the first game, the gameplay is based on portals. By firing a start and an end portal onto suitable surfaces, certain insurmountable gaps can be bridged. Just like in the first game, there are also many test chambers in which puzzles must be solved, using cubes, turrets, platforms and special portal tricks to build up a lot of speed. GLaDOS returns to torment Chell, scheming for revenge over her destruction, but there's a large number of twists that make her role very different from the first game. Chell gets help from Wheatley, a small robot who opens doors for her and offers her witty insights into her surroundings.

New gameplay elements in the sequel include light bridges, laser redirection and colour-coded gels, developed through the work of the student project Tag: The Power of Paint. The gels provide extra speed, a jump, or neutralise effects. They can also be used with objects such as cubes or turrets.

The game's cooperative two-player mode is entirely new and features its own completely separate campaign with a unique story, test chambers and two new player characters (Atlas and P-Body). The PlayStation 3 version includes some elements of the Steamworks toolset and allows cross-platform play against PC players. More