If you haven’t heard of Portal till now, I wouldn’t exactly blame you. It’s not a game you would necessarily notice, unless you were looking, or someone dropped you a line. Developed by Valve, on the Source engine, Portal is a physics-based puzzle game. But then, I wouldn’t exactly blame you if you loved the game. Although a relatively short game, Portal offered extremely entertaining (occasionally irritating) gameplay. The game revolved around solving puzzles using ‘portals’ which you could shoot from your portal gun.
Anyway, Valve has now announced the release of Portal 2, after realising exactly how popular the original was. It should be coming out sometime in December this year. Portal 2 will be set many many years after the events of Portal unfolded. Yes, GlaDOS will be back, as the sweet, yet homicidal antagonistic robot. And yes, Chell will be back.
What I’m really interested in, is the fact that Portal 2 will most likely be featuring a new version of the Source engine, which should give us an accurate idea of how Half-Life 2 : Episode 3 will look. Although it hasn’t been confirmed yet, considering the fact that the 2 games obviously underwent concurrent development at some point in their product development cycles, it’ll be great to investigate what new whistles and bangs the boffins at Valve have incorporated into the already-rather-amazing Source engine.
P.S. To those of you who’re die-hard fans of the game, I hope you’ve heard Still Alive by GlaDOS. Amazing song, makes me laugh each time I hear it…
P.P.S. Am really looking forward to meeting the Aperture Science Companion Cube again.
P.P.P.S. The cake is a lie…
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