Recent reviews by jrstan

absolutely one of the best games ever created.

and if you disagree you obviously have never played, which means you're wrong and can't be trusted.

I WANT TO DIE

Ok. Great Game, now to the boring part of my review.
This game is pretty cool. It has all the aspects of modern-day farming in it. It also has some unrealistic aspects of it. Like, the crazy bikes mod, when u just tap something and you're in space. So many aspects that are amazing, and not graphically intensive at all.

What I think should be improved with the game:
• You should be able to change your Field of View, because there are some people out there who get sick because of it (me included)
• VSync Toggle and Max Framerate selection
• Nothing else. The game just needs these 3 things, and it is complete.

Do I recommend this game? Depends on what you like, but it will have to be a big YES!!!

Talking about this game without mentioning it's predecessor is difficult. Because of this, I took the liberty of forgetting everything I know about the first game, all 300 hours of me playing and speedrunning it, and all 80 hours of me speedrunning the campaign of this game, and played through it as blind as possible.

The best parts about this game are it's story and dialogue. The graphics are good but you can't really compare it to anything because there's really nothing like it on this build of the Source engine besides CS:GO, but that game doesn't really look good compared to this. Great nonetheless.

I won't go through the story because it's too long to read. If you're doubting your purchase, wait until it's on sale or watch some videos, preferably not about the solo or co-op campaigns in order to not have the story ruined. I recommend watching videos on the custom chambers/stories because they add so much to the game thanks to the built in authoring tools you get, both built into the game and the seperate Hammer editor, the same editor used to make the maps in the story.

Throughout the game, you are put into some scenarios that require you to do some ninja moves, such as facing GLaDOS where the first core transfer happens and the ending fight to do the second and final core transfer (if you don't want the game spoiled don't look) but they're not really insane ninja moves. There's really no high difficulty to this. When I played through it the first time on XBox, I completed the game in a few combined hours, longer than PC because of controller issues. It's really not hard and that may be a turn off for the campaign, but custom chambers fix that difficulty itch.

The writers of this game deserve awards. I'm serious. The dialogue is the best in any campaign I've played, and yes, that's including GTA V. The dialogue alone for me was worth the $19.99 I spend on this game, twice (I have this game for XBox and PC).

Challenge mode is back from the first game but without "Least Steps," a challenging, careful, movement based challenge that made the game a real challenge outside the real game. But, at least the game now includes the challenge in one try. If you want to do a fast, least portals run, instead of timing that run seperately, you can run it and if you get a faster time than your run where you didn't care about the amount of portals used, it overwrites your time even though you were going for least portals. It's a time and pain saver. Bring back advanced challenges though.

That's all I'm going to say. If you want more, watch some videos, wait for a sale or a coupon, or just get the game, it's true it's one of the best games, if not, the best sequel to a game ever made.