Testing Your Patience (And Affection)

Aperture Science welcomes you to the testing track. If you want to know how well you and your partner can communicate abstract spatial geometry, Portal 2 is the ultimate laboratory.

Science Relies on Teamwork

As the robotic duo Atlas and P-Body, you'll be armed with dual portal devices. That means four portals total to keep track of. The physics-based puzzles start simple—moving a cube to a button—and rapidly escalate into dizzying feats of momentum, lasers, and light bridges.

The "ping" tool is your best friend here. By simply pressing a button, you can place an indicator on a wall to show your partner exactly where they need to shoot their portal.

The True Aperture Experience

Be prepared for "accidents."

Never trust a partner who says "Stand right there and wait for me to press the button."

• There will be moments where you drop a light bridge right as your partner is walking across it, sending them plummeting into toxic water.
• There will be times when you launch them into a wall instead of over a gap.

But underneath the trolling and the playful sabotage is a game that makes you feel like absolute geniuses when you finally coordinate a mid-air, triple-portal maneuver to reach the exit door.