Portal 2: Songs To Test By

The soundtrack (on 4 discs) comes in a high quality double jewel case. It also includes a short comic as part of the tracklist sheet. The only downside is that it didn't include the TF2 or DOTA item codes.

I won't go into detail about the quality of the music itself. If you've played the game then you know that Portal 2 has an excellent selection of atmospheric, electronic, glitchy, and occasionally intense songs to accompany its visuals. This 4-disc collectors' set covers the complete soundtrack. Many tracks are made up of beats/sounds that you would normally hear in-game while triggering certain objects/puzzle solutions. Here, they have been woven together to create new mixes in order to make everything you heard in the game more listenable and presentable. This creates a very unique collection of tracks, in addition to having all of the music that plays during events and within areas. The first three discs cover all tracks from Portal 2's single-player and multiplayer campaigns. However, as a bonus, the fourth disc contains the equally-brilliant (though much more brief) complete Portal 1 soundtrack, along with a bonus mix of "Still Alive" featuring Jonathan Coulton's vocals in place of GLaDOS. The set is housed in a standard 4-disc jewel case and contains a booklet featuring a mini-comic, the track listing, and some artwork. The disc art for each disc represents a different personality core (very clever). There's a lot of material here for a very low price; however, keep in mind that all of these tracks are available to download for free, legally from the official website. This set is mainly for collectors who want to own a physical copy with high quality sound.

This is online for free, but I wanted a physical copy since I enjoy having the actual CDs in my possession if possible. Plus, this came with a few codes for Steam; one code for a few items in Team Fortress, and the other for a copy of DOTA 2. I like it when companies release music for their games, and include a bonus for buying it. The music is the usual high quality of a regular CD bought from a store. I really enjoyed Portal 1 and 2, and the music being put onto a physical set that comes with a few extra goodies is nice to have, especially from Valve since they seem like they are one of the few companies left to actually take their time on all their products (Half-Life 3 anyone?) Overall, this is another item for my collection that I am satisfied and excited to have. Some people complained that when they received it, it was busted up. Mine came in a bubblewrap tight packaging with cardboard on the back, and the shipping info on the front. The packaging felt solid, but it made me have to use scissors on the plastic for the shipping packaging because it was wrapped so tightly that pulling on it made the casing creak and shift around (which isnt good for the plastic jewel case.) My one and only problem was with Amazon sending it two days after it released, but they made up for it with it arriving two days earlier than the promised date. Worth the $15 I spent on this, and would definitely pre-purchase something like this again if they release another music collection compiled of the quality music from their games.

The physical copy of Portal 2:songs to test by is awesome, the disk faces are the personality cores and the fourth disk is the portal 1 soundtrack. another perk is that, while you can get the track free from valve, the tracks are available on amazon cloud player so you can play them from anywhere which makes things a lot more convenient. The set comes with codes for free tf2 and dota 2 items as well. Over all these are a must have for any portal fan.

You get four discs, filled to the brim with great tracks from Portal 2 and some of Portal 1. I believe the content of the 4th disc isn't completely downloadable from the Portal site (or is on another page). Like game music? Like Portal? Buy it? Free TF item code (not sure for what, I didn't see anything in my inventory, but I never played TF2 on PC) and a Dota 2 Beta Key (admittedly, you can find them as easily as you used to be able to find broken AOL discs)

So first when i got the box, it shows some nice artwork on the front, and a track listing on the back.Then when i opened it i was greeted by 4 personality cores, all CD's are printed with the eyes of Wheatley, Rick, Space Core and the Fact Core.The first three CD's contain the 3 volumes of the 'songs to test by' album, with all the sounds from Portal2.The last CD contains all the soundtracks of portal1. In the box you can also find a small comic about the turret lullaby and codes for DOTA and TF2.The music in this album is soothing and is great for solving problems/schoolwork, most tracks are ambient and dont contain any distracting lyrics. (except for the last one)This album is not only nice to play in a CD player but also great for having on display as it's very pretty.Music in this album can be both found on the portal2 website, the Orangebox digital soundtrack bundled with Audiosurf.And in it's entirity on Spotify. Though in spite of this wide availability i do really recommend to purchase this as it brings a bit of the virtual portal2 into the real world ;)

Overall, it came really fast and all CDs play well. But it sadly did not come with booklet or extras that I've seen other people have gotten and I honestly wish I had since I really love collecting CDs. :/ Also, the background for the first CD is not centered and the same image is on the other side. I'm not sure if that's normal or...something else??

Daughter is a Portal addict, we found the item she wanted quickly, delivery was prompt and the item was as we expected.

Great album, but available free online and no longer contains Ap-Sap code.

Beautiful soundtrack.

Der Soundtrack ist einfach großartig wie das dazu gehörige Spiel Portal 1&2.CD 1 bis 3 enthält den kompletten Soundtrack von Portal 2.Und CD 4 den bis jetzt noch unveröffentlichen Soundtrack von Portal (1).Inhalt der Collectors Edition:-4CD's mit den Soundtrack von Portal 1 & 2-Ein CD Key für das "What is in the Portal 2 Soundtrack Box" Item in Team Fortress 2.-Ein CD Key für die Dota 2 Invite, mit welcher man sofortigen Zugang für Dota 2 über Steam bekommt.-Ein Portal 2 Comic.Das alles ist in einer 4CD Box, die CD's sind sehr hochwertig verarbeitet und bedruckt auf der Vorderseite.

Portal 2 es uno de los mejores juegos de la década y probablemente de los mejores de toda la historia. Este Set de cuatro discos incluye también la banda sonora del primer Portal.Algo importante y que realmente me decepcionó, es que el set YA NO incluye el código promocional para Team Fortress 2, este había sido la razón por la que hice la compra y la verdad no esperaba esto ya que en ninguna parte de la descripción decía si lo incluía o no (tampoco el CD de TF2 lo dice, pero éste sí incluye el código).