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The puzzles are mostly as good as they ever were and the co-op is a minor revelation, but the really outstanding part of Portal 2 is Wheatley. As I wrote in the review:<\/p>\n

If there is better voice acting in a game, I haven’t heard it. [Stephen] Merchant and Portal 2 are every bit as ideal a fit of actor with writing as Jack Black in Brutal Legend, Nolan North and Emily Rose in Uncharted, and Ellen McLain in the original Portal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thumbs up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"yoast_head":"\nPortal 2's Stephen Merchant as good as Nolan North, Jack Black, Ellen McLain - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/04\/25\/portal-2s-stephen-merchant-on-par-with-nolan-north-jack-black-ellen-mclain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Portal 2's Stephen Merchant as good as Nolan North, Jack Black, Ellen McLain - 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