aperture tag the paint gun testing initiative

These levels were crucial to helping the player understand the new mechanics, and were a lot of fun to play. You even get to re-visit a couple test chambers from the first few games, and are encouraged to solve them not with the Portal Gun, but with your Paint Gun. This is about the same experience I had playing the first Portal and Portal 2, so to me Motanum was spot-on with designing the perfect learning curve. I admit I had to consult a walkthrough a few times for the last few test chambers, having a few “ah-ha!” moments upon doing so. I was able to quickly solve most of the earlier puzzles but began scratching my head frequently on the final leg of the game. The test chambers are very well designed, and gradually increase in difficulty much in the same way test chambers in the original Portal games do. Portals themselves also appear, but as secondary elements activated by buttons and switches. Other testing elements from the Portal series make a return, including cubes and buttons, floor switches, lasers, and turrets.

A new energy field grill makes an appearance in the mod walking through it will force you to have access to one, both, or neither of the gels for a specific part of each test chamber. Inspired by the student game Tag: The Power of Paint (which inspired the gel mechanics in Portal 2 in the first place), players will need to solve test chambers by bouncing up walls and over gaps, as well as jettisoning off ramps and past deadly spikes. It is not the usual Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, but rather a new gun that is capable of spraying surfaces with the blue Repulsion Gel and orange Propulsion Gel introduced in Portal 2. That new challenge comes in the form of your unnamed protagonist’s weapon. The mod, created by Eugenio “Motanum” Roman, adds a unique and fun new challenge to the diabolical and dangerous test chambers of Aperture Science. Last week, the user-created Portal 2 mod Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative, became available on Steam. Those who have played the game for a while, however, are by now used to the formula: shoot blue portal here, shoot orange portal there, fly across the room and reach the exit. Fans keep the experience fresh through submitting user-designed test chambers, and more gamers are experiencing the game for the first time thanks to Our Lord Gabe Newell’s many Steam Sales. Three years after its release, Portal 2 still proves to be one of the more popular games on Steam.

Aperture tag the paint gun testing initiative