Someone’s gone ahead and scanned the entire cover feature for Portal 2 in the latest Game Informer. Fast, wasn’t it?

Apparently, the game takes place hundreds of years after the original game. Aperture Science looks like it’s in some sort of jungle now. GlaDOS, the computer beast you killed during the first game, returns. Chell, the girl you played as in the first game, returns as the protagonist and test rat, as well. That may confuse you at first, since it’s hard to believe any human being is still alive after that time. We’ll go with GI and assume she’s been stashed in some chamber where she doesn’t age.

The previously mentioned co-op campaign is a separate story from the single-player game. Instead of playing as humans, you’ll play as two bipedal robots.

Valve’s throwing in new ways to make the Portal puzzles even harder. Physics gains a bigger role, where a portal could be used from an air vent to suck air from one area to another. Then there are reflection cubes, which can be used to reflect lasers from one cube to another.

For those worrying that Portal 2 will be as short as the first, Valve said that the first game was a “test bed”. The second game is a full-fledged release; thus the $60 price tag.

Portal 2 Thread 56k warning GameInformer scans [PALGN via VG247]