A third gel, that allowed the player to walk on any surface it was applied to, was tested for Portal 2 but cut for the final release. A small sphere with tethered controllers that could precisely track your hand movements. Valve supported the release of this forgotten nunchucky controller with a large level pack released for Portal 2. You could stretch out the cubes that fill Aperture Science, creating bridges from the expanded boxes.
It expanded the Gravity Gun capabilities of the Portal device, too, letting you move objects across larger spaces simply by reaching out. The tracking enabled players to precisely aim lasers around, and slide portals all over the walls. Here, have a peep. VR has been a good place to continue to play Portal 2, albeit without any portals. Valve used the game as a jumping-off point for a number of VR tech demos. The Lab is set in an Aperture Science pocket universe. Moondust is a small playground filled with Aperture equipment set on the moon.
This includes silly hand gestures and a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Portal Stories: Mel follows the previously cut character of Mel as she puzzles her way through Aperture Science.
Thinking with Time Machine is a single-player co-op mode, and my favourite mod on this list. It enables you to record your movements in the game and then replay them to move you through the levels. The depth surprised me: you record yourself flicking switches, moving things, ducking and standing to boost yourself and firing portals. As the name so cunningly suggests, this mod is based around the gels, making each level a parkour puzzle space that is far harder than the main game.
You get to fire the gel out of the gun in this mod, bringing it far closer to the student game that inspired Portal 2. Rocket League has a number of Portal-based accessories for your cars. But my favourite is in Skyrim. That genuinely happened, btw. Special Sections. Player Support. Community Hub. Recent Reviews:. All Reviews:. Popular user-defined tags for this product:. Is this game relevant to you? Sign In or Open in Steam. Download Demo.
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Read Critic Reviews. Shop Merchandise Now. Shop For Portal Merchandise. Add to Cart. Package info. Bundle info. Add to Account. View Community Hub. System Requirements Windows. Only two portal ends may be open at a time: one orange and one blue in color. If a new portal end is created, it replaces the previous portal of the same color. The player can enter or exit either colored portal. The portal gun is also used to pick up objects in a similar manner to the Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator Half-Life 2 , although it cannot propel objects or pull them from afar like the Gravity Gun can.
Guided by a supercomputer named GLaDOS an acronym for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, voiced by Ellen McLain , players use the portal gun to perform a variety of tests, such as creating portals to knock over turrets and moving to a previously unreachable area.
Two additional modes are unlocked upon completion of the main game. In Advanced mode, the hardest levels of the game are made even harder with the addition of more obstacles and hazards. Portal is Valve's professionally-developed spiritual successor to the freeware Narbacular Drop , the independent game released by students of the DigiPen; the original Drop team is now all employed at Valve.
The key difference in the signature portal mechanic between the two games is that in Narbacular Drop the player can place a portal on a wall visible through another portal, whereas in Portal , the handheld portal device cannot fire a portal shot through a portal.
However, the handheld portal device can fire a portal shot while the player is standing in a portal. On March 5, , Portal 2 was officially announced after a series of cryptic clues were released in the form of an update to Portal.
It was released on April 19, The game features new levels and achievements. The additional content is drawn from levels from the map based on Portal: The Flash Version by We Create Stuff and contains no additional story-related levels. According to Valve spokesman Doug Lombardi, Valve had been in discussion with Microsoft to bring Portal to the Xbox Live Marketplace, but was limited by the amount bandwidth that Microsoft was willing to allow for such content.
Portal received universal critical acclaim from critics. Half-Life Wiki Explore. Developers Gearbox Software Valve Corporation. Artists Character models Composers Voice actors Writers. Half-Life: Alyx. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound.
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