This song was a delight during the end credits and it’s even better now that you can listen to it whenever you want. The main Portal 2 theme, ‘Want You Gone’, is even better – GLaDOS actually sings (in English this time) about the events of the game… she’s a bitchy, lonely, psychotic robot with attitude. ![]() ‘PotatOS Lament’ is eerie and beautiful, the wordless robotic-tinged singing truly captivating. The score steps up a gear whenever American opera singer and voice actor Ellen McClain – who voiced the evil GLaDOS in both Portal games – is featured. (Who can forget ‘The Part Where He Kills You’?) It probably won’t sound like much of anything to non-gamers the majority of the time, but the score will definitely cause fans to stop and remember the various great moments liberally dotted throughout Portal 2. Thankfully, tracks such as ‘I AM NOT A MORON!’, ‘The Reunion’ and ‘Machiavellian Bach’ do plenty to turn those bleeps and bloops into something more than just a jumble. Listening to the Mike Morasky’s score separate from the game itself often causes great disparity – by no means does the music suddenly sound terrible of course, but out of context it can come across like a very basic collections of bleeps and bloops, and even become rather annoying at times – take Disc 2’s ‘Die Cut Laser Dance’, for example. In AMO’s original review of Portal 2 on PlayStation 3, it was noted that the fantastic musical score knew “when to lurk in the background or spring to the forefront.” In short, it matched the onscreen action step by step, portal to portal. (Credit to Mike Morasky and the rest of the valve team involved for the creation of the music.Alternative Magazine Online reviewed Portal 2 in 2011, describing it as “one of the greatest video game sequels ever made.” Valve Corporation has now teamed up with small record label Ipecac Recordings to release Portal 2: Songs To Test By (Collector’s Edition), a physical 4-CD collection of the award-winning music of Portal 2 (with previously unavailable music from the original Portal featured as an added bonus). Have fun playing Half-Life with the Portal 2 Soundtrack! -Skamlox So you'll have to play that part for yourself!) 16 demos are included (although #13 does not exist) including most chapters of the game, they get the gist across if you don't want to play through the whole game just to get a sense of how the new soundtrack affects the atmosphere (There is no demo of the ending though I think that it's quite good. ![]() If you want to restore the original music, you can take a backup of your media folder first, and simpy overwrite the modified tracks, or on Steam, use the 'Verify Game files' tool from the game's properties to redownload the original tracks.Ī series of demos is also included, which demonstrate areas of interest with the soundtrack, simply copy the 'demo' folder's contents into the contents of your Half-Life/valve folder, and type 'playdemo p2demo_#' from the console ingame. ![]() zip file into your Half-Life/valve folder, (You can usually find it at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life\valve) and overwrite the original files. ![]() To install, copy the 'media' folder from the. Play the game alongside 28 amazing songs, taking the place of the original soundtrack to add a new layer of atmosphere and immersion to your experience. Enjoy the sights and sounds of Half-Life with the all the ambience, energy, and excitement of Portal 2's unique soundtrack.
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