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For science, you monster!

If only science was as much fun as Portal 2! I have just finished this game and am finding it hard to imagine having fun on any other game again. Ever. From the makers of Half Life, Portal 2 shouldn't be such a surprisingly addictive, rich and fun game. Half Life provided more to gamers who were bored of blowing the limbs off of mindless AIs with the latest BFG (search for it on Urban Dictionary). Suddenly gamers were immersed in a new world, rich in both story, and real characters who popped up to carry you through the game. While the characters were all great, the science of Half Life obviously drifted into a fantastic, futuristic fantasy. However, unknown to the researchers at the fictional Black Mesa Research Facility (from Half Life), a rival company had been making break through discoveries in teleportation, and had even developed a so-called 'Portal Device'. When Valve introduced Aperture Science as a separate Science Research company into the Half Life universe they...