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Portal 2 is a game with a great idea that has a lot of potential to provide a lot of entertainment in the future. It took me a little over 19 hours to play through the campaign and cooperatively beat all of the multi player content with complete strangers online.
Single Player
In the single player mode (which I refer to loosely as the "campaign") the story line gets redundant and beside the point very quickly. The transitions between each test chamber are so recycled it becomes painful to sit through given the number of levels there are in the game. The puzzles themselves are interesting and enjoyable however, so just remember that this is a Puzzle-Platform style of game and not an Adventure game. You learn techniques for solving the puzzles cumulatively throughout in a very natural progression.
Overall
Overall I think its a good buy simply because it's a unique experience, and it occupied 19 hours of time for only $30 on Steam. Valve will be releasing some modding tools so users can create their own test-chambers and share them, so there will be some replay-ability down the road and maybe some kind of competitive community. I think its going to be very important that with those modding tools Valve enables users to create their own game mechanics (such as designing the bridge itself, rather than dragging and dropping it onto the chamber). User generated content is generally more creative and interesting anyway. It will give the game a lot more vigor. Valve plans on continuing to release additional test chambers through free downloadable content packs. Personally, I scoffed when I saw the online shop gearing itself up to service a micro-transaction system because I absolutely hate micro-transactions, but I'm sure there will be some people out there that can't complete their experience of this game without a stupid pink head sock.
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