If you like Portal or puzzle games in general, you really should check out Portal Reloaded. Creator Jannis Brinkmann explains that “the mod also wants to push its concepts to their limits and explore many new and interesting ways of puzzle-solving.” Whether you like them or not may depend on your tolerance for frustration, but they’re well-crafted. There are 25 new puzzles, and they’re good ones - overall, quite tough but ultimately fair. Later puzzles often build on earlier ones. You are, as usual, given an introduction and a bit of practice to see how it works before you’re turned loose to fend for yourself. In Portal games, every new tool means a new class of puzzles. ![]() ![]() Since portals can still go through other portals, this opens up (so to speak) a lot of new possible combinations and adds a new (fourth) dimension to the game.Īdding a third portal makes the possible puzzles far more complex. Adding a third portal makes the possible puzzles far more complex. The new tool is a spectacular addition to the game. (Although, in Portal style, it’s monologue!) The focus is on the new tool and puzzles - Portal Reloaded has much less story than bigger community projects like Portal Stories: Mel. It contains about 100 new lines of dialogue. It may be a little disturbing at times, and darkly funny at others, but it’s a relatively small part of the game. The focus is on the new tool and puzzles. The importance of these is just what you expect from a Portal game. Portal Reloaded adds new content in three connected ways: a new story, a new tool, and new puzzles. Gameplay - Okay, So It’s More than Just Portal 2 The soundtrack is available for purchase and helps support the creator, PORTANIS. That said, there is new music, in a classic upbeat-yet-ominous Portal sound. More Portal 2 is what we ordered, and it’s what we got. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course. The new time portal is green and rectangular, rather than round and red or blue, but that’s about the biggest difference. Portal Reloaded isn’t a new game, but a mod of Portal 2. You’ll need to manipulate time as well as space to complete the new puzzles. Specifically, it opens a portal 20 years into the future. opens a portal 20 years into the future. You’re equipped with the Triple Portal Gun, which can create a new type of portal. As Test Subject, you are revived from cryosleep to become the plaything of a creepy AI. If you are a fan of the Portal series, it’s worth checking out - especially since it’s free-to-play!Ĭoncept - It’s Portal, Only in FOUR Dimensions!ĭeep in the bowels of the Aperture Science building lies a long-forgotten project. The mod was released on the 10th anniversary of Portal 2 as a celebration of the game. It’s a community-made modification of Portal 2 by PORTANIS that adds a game’s worth of new content. Portal Reloaded is technically not a new Portal game, but it’s close. ![]() Portal Reloaded introduces a new portal that can transport you, as the Rocky Horror Picture Show put it, “through space and, who knows, perhaps even time itself!” Portal Reloaded: Portals, Portals, and Even More Portals!
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