Something I felt that was taken away from Portal 2 were speed and accuracy puzzles in favor of players using controllers.

As the game progresses, accuracy becomes more important, as overshooting may end up killing you. Many puzzles deal with figuring out a way to gain enough momentum to propel or bounce yourself to certain locations of the test chamber. You’ll need to press buttons in certain orders, get various objects to various switches to open doors, etc. That soon changes when various elements are added. All this is done through game play, so there are no boring tutorials to deal with.Ĭhambers start off simple enough: Start at entrance, get to exit. Players are eased back into the game – your first steps back into the facility teach you about dodging turrets, rerouting lasers with cubes, tractor beams and a few other concepts so you won’t stumble through your first few puzzles. It was interesting approaching these chambers with a different tool (The Paint Gun), and solving it differently. Speaking of test chambers, while many of them are brand new, you will come across some chambers from Portal 2. You start off with the Repulsion Gel, but it doesn’t take long before you are using both Repulsion and Propulsion gels in unison to solve the test chambers. Your new tool is the Paint Gun, which allows you to spray the gels on almost any surface. As a refresher, the blue gel is Repulsion Gel, which will allow you to bounce when jumping on it, while the orange gel is Propulsion Gel, which will propel you in whatever direction you are moving. Instead of thinking with portals, this time you’ll be thinking with gels – more specifically the blue and orange gels that were used in Portal 2. Besides understanding the reason why you are back in the Aperture lab, there are no big tie-ins to the co-op or even the primary campaign. If you have not played through the Portal 2 co-op, there is no need to worry. When I heard about Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing initiative those feelings started to fade away.Īperture Tag takes place after the events of the Portal 2 co-op (or at least I think it does ). Still, the fact that there was no single player DLC had me a bit bummed out.

Even though no additional single player DLC was released, the multiplayer did a good job of extending the core Portal experience. Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative puts you back in chambers with new tools and ways to solve them.īack in 2011 when Portal 2 was released, it was one of those games that I was sad to see end.

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