Lego dimensions portal 2 level pack
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It’s day three of Lego Dimensions week on Tired Old Hack, and after reviews of the Simpsons and Back To The Future level packs it’s now time for the Portal 2 level pack to be scrutinised to smithereens.
Check back on Thursday and Friday for the final two level pack reviews.
Portal fans are already fairly well catered for in the main Lego Dimensions Starter Pack.
The Portal 2 stage in the main story mode is probably the longest in the game, and there’s even an outstanding Portal-related surprise right at the end (click here for spoilers), which would probably be more well-known among the gaming community if more Valve fans played Lego games.
So what more can the separate Portal 2 level pack offer that isn’t already covered in the main game? Quite a lot, it seems.
The Level
The level you get with the Portal 2 level pack is called Aperture Science, though you could probably get away with calling it Portal 3 if you wanted (GLaDOS even describes it as “round three” at one point).
Much like the other wave 1 level packs (The Simpsons and Back To The Future), it’s split into four main sections, with the first taking place in a series of test chambers in the traditional Portal style.
This section feels most like you’re playing a Portal game, with you using your Portal gun to solve puzzles while GLaDOS continually taunts you and Wheatley offers words of advice.
Before long you find an elevator and head down to the second section, where you have to explore the abandoned Old Aperture while old recordings of founder Cave Johnson play over the speaker system (courtesy of new dialogue by Portal 2 voice actor JK Simmons).
Make your way through here and you’ll find yourself in the third section, which gives you a bunch of new test chambers to play through, until finally you reach the fourth and final section: a boss battle against GLaDOS herself.
Of all five Lego Dimensions level packs to date, the Portal 2 level is the longest and most puzzle-heavy.
Although the environments look a bit samey (which can’t really be helped given the source material), the puzzle design and sensational dialogue still makes the whole thing a treat to play through.
The vocal talents of Ellen McLain, Stephen Merchant and JK Simmons all return to voice new dialogue for their respective characters, and you’ll constantly be chuckling away as you play, as is the Portal tradition.
The puzzles are perfectly balanced too. Naturally, given that Lego Dimensions is aimed at a younger audience you shouldn’t expect any of the properly brain-bending stuff you would have encountered in either of the main Portal games, but what’s there will give your noggin a wee workout without potentially frustrating any 11-year-olds who happen to be playing.
They’re relatively varied too, using not only your portal gun as a mechanic but also the provided Sentry Turret and Companion Cube gadgets, blue repulsion gel, orange propulsion gel and High Energy Pellets (the little glowing balls that are fired and can be diverted to trigger switches in the main Portal games).
Essentially, if you’re a Portal fan and you haven’t played this, you’re missing out on a cracking little mini-sequel that may look and play differently but still feels very much like part of the Portal universe.
Chell character
As with all the other level packs, the Portal 2 set also comes with a character minifig and two gadgets. The character in this case is Chell, the heroine from both Portal games.
She’s armed with her trusty Portal Gun, which works just like it does in the games: using both action buttons you can fire orange and blue portals you can then travel between.
There’s one slight catch, mind: you can only fire portals onto special square tiles. Though this may seem a bit limiting, it’s understandable why it’s like this: Lego game stages are far less complex than Portal stages and being able to teleport wherever you like would have made things far too easy.
Thankfully the gun also doubles as a weapon, meaning Chell isn’t too useless outside of Portal environments. She isn’t exactly packed with character though, given that – as in the Portal games – she’s a mute protagonist.
Still, the fact she also has WyldStyle’s athletic ability (letting her double-jump and spin on horizontal poles) makes her a fun shooty/flippy character to play as.
Sentry Turret
If you were to write a list of the gadgets and gizmos you come across in the Portal games, chances are the Companion Cube and Sentry Turrets would be near the top.
It should come as no surprise then that Lego Dimensions has gone with the safe option, including both with the level pack as Chell’s two gadgets.
The Sentry Turret is used in the included extra level for firing at switches, ensuring they stay activated while you run over to the door they’ve opened.
Naturally, in other non-Portal stages it’s used to fire at any enemies who have the gall to come near you, and in this respect it gets the job done.
When you upgrade it to the Turret Striker it can still fire lasers, but it also runs faster on its little dinky legs and can even bust out physical attacks on closer enemies.
A further upgrade turns it into the Flying Turret Carrier. As the name suggests, this acts like a normal Sentry Turret but has the added power of flight, letting you soar around gunning down bad guys like some sort of airborne maniac.
The Sentry Turret is a decent enough gadget and is particularly useful in large combat areas where you know you’re going to be faced with a horde of enemies.
Its upgrades are nothing revolutionary (the power of flight aside) but it’s a solid enough piece of kit regardless. Plus it looks great in real life once it’s built.
Companion Cube
Let’s be fair to the developers here – there isn’t a hell of a lot that can be done with a cube.
The Companion Cube proves this, offering a gadget that is undoubtedly adorable but stupendously rubbish.
In its initial form it does absolutely nothing. Its sole purpose is to be used as a weight you can sit on floor switches.
When you upgrade it to the Laser Deflector and realise that it still doesn’t move but can at least now divert lasers towards switches, you start to think “okay, maybe we’re slowly getting somewhere here”.
But then you upgrade it again to the Gold Heart Emitter, which removes the laser deflecting ability and does nothing again (other than, well, emit gold hearts), you realise that no, it is in fact rubbish.
In a way that’s sort of the joke, so you can’t be too harsh on the Companion Cube. The best thing you can do is buy the small upgrade that lets its follow you unaided and have it accompany you on your quest as a cute little chum.
Final Verdict
The Portal 2 level pack is easily among the best currently available, blowing the likes of the Back To The Future one out of the water in terms of content.
The new level will take you around 50 minutes to beat on your first playthrough (without bothering with collectibles), and is packed with brilliantly funny lines.
Meanwhile, Chell’s Portal Gun is a neat little weapon and the Sentry Turret is a cool gadget. Let’s just forget the Companion Cube.
It’s also worth bearing in mind that the Portal 2 level pack is the only way of accessing the free-roaming Portal 2 Adventure World, which offers a few more hours of puzzle solving and mission-based gameplay.
While the other level packs also offer access to their respective Adventure Worlds, they also have other standalone characters who can unlock them (Bart with the Simpsons world, Doc Brown with the Back To The Future one, etc). Of the level packs currently available, Portal 2 is the only one to feature exclusive access to its Adventure World too.
Ultimately, this is a no-brainer for Portal fans. There’s no drop in quality in terms of dialogue here, and while we’re looking at a third-person action platformer instead of a first-person puzzler, the look and feel of the Portal series is still masterfully maintained.
This is easily one of the best Lego Dimensions add-ons available.
If you want to buy the Lego Dimensions Portal 2 Level Pack and fancy doing it through Amazon, please do it using this link: Amazon UK. It won’t cost you any extra and a cut of the profits will go to me, letting me invest back into improving the site.
Disclaimer: This review was not based on a free promo copy. I bought this product myself.
After almost 5 years, Portal 2 is back as one of Lego Dimensions' launch Level Packs. If you've been wondering what figurines and abilities are included in the pack, I'll break it down for you along with an exploration of the new story level and adventure world.
Putting Portal figures on your Lego portal will blow your mind
The following abilities become available for you to use throughout the Lego Dimensions universe when you purchase this Level Pack:
- Chell: Double jump and use acrobatic poles (the same abilities that Wyldstyle has) and shoot portals onto white surfaces with the Portal Gun
- Vehicle transformations: Sentry Turret (rideable turret that can open switches), Turret Striker (destroy gold blocks), Flying Turret Carrier (destroy silver blocks and fly to reach high-up locations)
- Companion Cube transformations: Companion Cube (weight switch), Laser Deflector (deflect lasers), Gold Heart Emitter (refill characters' health when close by)
The Portal 2 pack includes 5 test chambers and a boss. There were more chambers included in the base game story level, though it took me about the same time to complete both. However, I would have liked to have seen extra effort put into the pack along with a longer level compared to the base game seeing as I purchased this separately. If you played the Portal 2 level in the base game then you'll know what to expect. These puzzles are around the same difficulty level, but with more use of the blue and orange paint that is used to speed up your character or make them jump really high. The Sentry Turret is used in a few places to trigger switches that move pieces of the wall, and the Companion Cube is used throughout to trigger buttons. On the presentation side, Wheatley follows you through the entire level with his typical funny banter, and GLaDOS doesn't stop with her sarcastic and equally humorous lines. The look of the level (and the adventure world that you unlock with the purchase of Chell) is spot-on as it mimics the Portal 2 universe very accurately. One problem I had while playing the level through a second time would have been game-breaking if I wasn't able to fix it. After being upgraded, the Sentry Turret stopped triggering switches. I had to quit out of the level and reset the Sentry Turret's default toy tag in order to fix it. Hopefully they patch this soon.
To be honest, playing the Portal 2 adventure world had me quite confused. It's seemingly very large and sprawls horizontally and vertically. All of the vertical traversing had me lose my sense of direction within a couple of minutes each time I entered the world. Having a map here seems almost necessary in order to explore every area. When you compare it to the other adventure worlds that have a natural progression between areas and a less vertical landscape, it comes across like a mess of platforms and puzzles. I was excited to be able to play more puzzles while in the adventure world which somewhat made up for the lesser number of puzzles included in the story level. They aren't quite as complex, but still fun to complete nonetheless. The world combines designs of Portal 2's early levels (plain white test chambers) and later levels (brown decaying rooms covered in greenery) to create an interesting mix.
Portal 2's adventure world is more layered than GLaDOS' much sought-after cake
The fact that this Portal 2 Level Pack closely matches its blockbuster counterpart means that fans of the series will absolutely have to pick it up. The same could be said for anyone looking for a bit more of a challenge in the Lego Dimensions universe. However, when you finish the short story level and arrive in the adventure world, you run the risk of getting lost forever in GLaDOS' dastardly test chambers.
Portal was one of the more surprising franchise choices for LEGO Dimensions. Portal wasn’t a franchise that had any LEGO sets at the time, and in fact there was even a LEGO Cuusoo pitch for a Portal series of sets that was rejected. But it’s a franchise choice to be thankful for, as Portal brings some of the stand-out content in Dimensions, and this Level Pack is no different. Of the three launch-day Level Packs, it was by far the best, and it still holds its ground against the newer ones. The Portal 2 Level Pack manages to mash the LEGO format together with Portal‘s style and mechanics to make a cool hybrid level that does the source material justice.
The Portal 2 Level Pack reunites Chell and Wheatley, and pits them against GLaDOS the homicidal AI once again. All the dialogue was recorded just for the game, so you get a bunch of new interactions between the characters, with their original voice actors providing the voices. The script is full of the same style of humour as the Portal games, but being a third person game you’re able to see Chell’s reactions to Wheatley’s nonsense.
Puzzles have multiple elements that need to be dealt with
The level structure is similar to the story level, in that it takes you through a series Aperture test chambers (with some segments set outside of these chambers) but the locations themselves are different from those you encountered during the main story. The chambers in this level are more complex, and feel much more Portal-y due to the fact you’re equipped with items from the game. Chell comes with the game’s signature Portal Gun, allowing her to create portals on special surfaces. You can have two portals open at a time, one blue and one orange, which link to each other – jumping in one will send you out the other. You also get minibuilds of the Companion Cube and Turret, which are used extensively in puzzles. The Cube can weight down special switches, and when upgraded it is also able to deflect lasers. The Turret is a vehicle you can pilot which will automatically fire at special Turret Switches when unmanned, allowing you to continue on with bits of the puzzles located elsewhere. It can be upgraded to destroy Gold Bricks and Silver Bricks, and fly.
Where this level excels is in making the most of what comes in the box. Each puzzle combines the special abilities of each of the three toys in different ways. In one puzzle, you might need to just use portals to reach a high-up area. In another, you might need to use the portals to redirect an anti-gravity beam to another location that you need to each. Then in yet another puzzle you could have to hit switches that move a portal around the room, and drop items into the correct locations. The level also features another element that wasn’t present in the story mode – Gel. Portal 2 introduced gels that altered the environment that they were splattered on, and two varieties are present in the Level Pack. Blue gel can be used to bounce much higher than a normal jump would allow, while orange gel is super slippery and will give you a massive speed boost. The gels are just some of the elements used to add extra layers to puzzles beyond ‘Use this character’s skill here’.
Portals allow you to remotely make big messes
It’ll probably take you around an hour or so to complete the level if you stick to the main path and don’t spend much time hunting for collectibles. If you go for full completion of the level it’ll take you well over that, as there’s hidden puzzles and alternate test chambers to find and complete in exchange for collectibles. It’s just the right length, as it feels substantial enough without being padded, and the pacing of puzzles is nice as well. They gradually introduce new elements and build up to tougher puzzles, capping the level off with a boss fight at the end. The fight is rather simplistic, but it’s a nice callback to the games.
The Portal 2 Level Pack also has one of the most substantial offerings outside of its main level as well. A number of levels and Adventure Worlds have puzzles that make use of the toys you get in the pack in order to set up more Portal-style puzzles. So you could be roaming around Jurassic World, only to stumble upon a surprise Portal puzzle to solve. There’s a fair number of these hidden puzzles in the game, which are fun to solve.
Thinking With Portals
Unlike some of the other franchise’s Level Packs, you can’t get access to the Portal 2 Adventure World by buying a cheaper Fun Pack. The Level Pack is the only Portal pack in the game, so if you want to explore all the Adventure Worlds then you’ll need to buy this pack.
And, of course, you get access to a new Adventure World as well. I was confused how this world would work before I played the game, because ‘open world’ and ‘Portal‘ didn’t mix in my head, but they’ve done a good job pulling it off. It’s basically a big hub set in a derelict Aperture facility which you can explore at your own pace. All around the facility there’s more testing chambers scattered about, which you can complete at your own pace. It’s basically a whole extra Portal level that can be tackled in whatever order you like. As a result it feels a bit less exciting than other Adventure Worlds, but if you’ve still got a hankering for Portal after completing the level then you’ll get a lot of enjoyment out of it. The NPCs from the Portal universe make an appearance in here too, providing commentary and humour. GLaDOS gets really snarky if you use a flying character in the world.
If you’re a Portal fan playing Dimensions then you can’t turn down this pack. It does a brilliant job of combining the two universes and offers a lot of enjoyable content. If you’re not a fan then it will do a good job of introducing you to Portal, with puzzles that aren’t as complex as what you’d find in the series, but play with some of the same concepts to deliver puzzles that are entertaining regardless. Chell and her equipment see a lot of use outside of what’s included in the pack, which makes it one of the more worthwhile expansions to buy.
This review was written based off a game or game content bought with the author’s own money. Review scores are designed to be directly compared with other expansions in the same series, not other series. We use the full 10 point scale 🙂
Many of you may have saw this on Brickset while I at work but apparently LEGO has decided to publish the instructions (now removed) for the LEGO Dimensions Back to the Future Level Pack (71201) which confirms the LEGO Portal 2 and LEGO Doctor Who themes for the upcoming toys-to-life game. Other themes that have been newly revealed for LEGO Dimensions include Scooby-Doo Team Pack (71206) and The Simpsons Level Pack (71202) which we already could tell from the blurry image we saw last month as well as Jurassic World Team Pack (71205).
The Portal 2 Level Pack (71203) includes a Chell minifigure, a Weighted Companion Cube, and Sentry Turrent. The Doctor Who Level Pack (71204) includes Peter Capaldi’s Doctor, the TARDIS, and K-9. Also in the Doctor Who instructions (now removed), the licensing page mentions Dalek and Cyberman so could we possibly be seeing them in future packs?
For the Jurassic World Team Pack (71205), we have the Owen and ACU Trooper minifigures, a brick-built Velociraptor, and what appears to be the gyrosphere. Surprisingly, the Owen minifigure will be the second set for the character considering that he’s the main character in Jurassic World and he’s only in the Raptor Rampage (75917) set. For the Scooby-Doo Team Pack (71206), we have the Scooby and Shaggy minifigures, the Mystery Machine, and a pile of food.
If you’re just wanting some of the new characters like Chell and the Doctor and was wondering if the minifigures come off the bases for your enjoyment, rest assured that they do come off as confirmed by LEGO. Thanks for everyone who emailed in. I did see this piece of news but was preoccupied at the time and didn’t have computer access.
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