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* Both games feature the same protagonist. | * Both games feature the same protagonist. | ||
* {{Spoiler|Both games feature the same antagonist (in ''Portal 2'', only until the end of chapter 5, ''The Escape'', when [[GLaDOS]] was replaced with [[Wheatley]]. However, it doesn't change anything about the fact that the antagonist is the [[Cores#Central Core|Central Core]].)}} | * {{Spoiler|Both games feature the same antagonist (in ''Portal 2'', only until the end of chapter 5, ''The Escape'', when [[GLaDOS]] was replaced with [[Wheatley]]. However, it doesn't change anything about the fact that the antagonist is the [[Cores#Central Core|Central Core]].)}} | ||
* Most testing elements (such as the Weighted [[Weighted Storage Cube|Storage]] and [[Weighted Companion Cube|Companion]] Cubes, [[Sentry Turret|Sentry Turrets]] or [[Super Button|Super Buttons]] are the same in both games. | * Most testing elements (such as the Weighted [[Weighted Storage Cube|Storage]] and [[Weighted Companion Cube|Companion]] Cubes, [[Sentry Turret|Sentry Turrets]] or [[Super Button|Super Buttons]]) are the same in both games. | ||
* {{Spoiler|Both games feature backstage areas known as [[Doug Ratmann|Rat Man]] Dens.}} | * {{Spoiler|Both games feature backstage areas known as [[Doug Ratmann|Rat Man]] Dens.}} | ||
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:* {{Spoiler|In ''Portal'', all maintenance areas are claustrophobic and creepy crawlspaces in a state of serious disrepair. In ''Portal 2'', maintenance areas are spacious, composed of catwalks circling the [[Test Chamber|test chambers]], which are, at this point, revealed to be large rooms on rails, so they can be transported anywhere, as the player was told by Wheatley in chapter 8.}} | :* {{Spoiler|In ''Portal'', all maintenance areas are claustrophobic and creepy crawlspaces in a state of serious disrepair. In ''Portal 2'', maintenance areas are spacious, composed of catwalks circling the [[Test Chamber|test chambers]], which are, at this point, revealed to be large rooms on rails, so they can be transported anywhere, as the player was told by Wheatley in chapter 8.}} | ||
:* {{Spoiler|The [http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Turret_Manufacturing Turret Manufacturing] underwent a major change. In ''Portal'', it was a few small rooms with unfinished turrets standing around, occassionally transported by crane arms of some kind. In ''Portal 2'', the Turret Manufacturing is a large section of the Enrichment Center, probably taking up tens or hundreds of square miles. Boxes are piled up everywhere, sometimes arranged as walls, sometimes just thrown at a pile of some more, all either containing turrets or building them, as seen at the bottom of Turret Manufacturing in chapter 5. Near the same building boxes is a long line of metal sheets that later are cut into a grid containing all the parts of a turret, resembling real-life plastic models with plastic grids joined to parts of the final model. The Turret grids are sent by [http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Aperture_Science_Multitasking_Arm Multitasking Arms] into the aforementioned building boxes.}} | :* {{Spoiler|The [http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Turret_Manufacturing Turret Manufacturing] underwent a major change. In ''Portal'', it was a few small rooms with unfinished turrets standing around, occassionally transported by crane arms of some kind. In ''Portal 2'', the Turret Manufacturing is a large section of the Enrichment Center, probably taking up tens or hundreds of square miles. Boxes are piled up everywhere, sometimes arranged as walls, sometimes just thrown at a pile of some more, all either containing turrets or building them, as seen at the bottom of Turret Manufacturing in chapter 5. Near the same building boxes is a long line of metal sheets that later are cut into a grid containing all the parts of a turret, resembling real-life plastic models with plastic grids joined to parts of the final model. The Turret grids are sent by [http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Aperture_Science_Multitasking_Arm Multitasking Arms] into the aforementioned building boxes.}} | ||
* At many times while playing ''Portal'', the player may see extended pistons that are used to move test chamber walls. In ''Portal 2'', pistons are replaced with Multitasking Arms with the exception of [[Victory Lift|Victory Lifts]], which only had their model changed. However | * At many times while playing ''Portal'', the player may see extended pistons that are used to move test chamber walls. In ''Portal 2'', pistons are replaced with Multitasking Arms with the exception of [[Victory Lift|Victory Lifts]], which only had their model changed. However, pistons are still used, though very infrequently, and only in [[Portal 2 Chapter 7 Enrichment Sphere 6|a level in Chapter 7]]. | ||