Portal 2 and portal bundle series#

Success will require them to not just act cooperatively, but to think cooperatively. This new mode forces players to reconsider everything they thought they knew about portals.

The game’s two-player cooperative mode features its own entirely separate campaign with a unique story, test chambers, and two new player characters.

Players will explore never-before-seen areas of the Aperture Science Labs and be reunited with GLaDOS, the occasionally murderous computer companion who guided them through the original game.

The single-player portion of Portal 2 introduces a cast of dynamic new characters, a host of fresh puzzle elements, and a much larger set of devious test chambers.

Portal 2 draws from the award-winning formula of innovative gameplay, story, and music that earned the original Portal over 70 industry accolades and created a cult following.

Players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuvering objects, and themselves, through space.

The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment similar to how Half-Life® 2's Gravity Gun innovated new ways to leverage an object in any given situation.

Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve.

Now Valve is only steps away from finishing the sequel, Portal 2. Step – or fall – into one oval and you come flying out the other, which hopefully gets you closer to the solution, an exit elevator. The ovals mark the openings to an invisible portal.

The game was named after your weapon: the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (ASHPD), a gun which fires two glowing ovals into walls, ceilings, and floors. Portal, a college project turned Game of the Year winner in 2007, did just that with its brain-bending puzzles, innovative gameplay, and witty dialogue. “And then there are other people who say, ‘We don’t really have a choice here. “Once you’ve had success, your gut reaction is to stop and just keep doing what you’re doing,” says Valve founder Gabe Newell as he saunters down a long office hallway in his trademark un-tucked Ralph Lauren polo shirt. At Valve, employee excitement – not an Excel spreadsheet – is the sole metric used to evaluate the company’s next move.

Portal 2 and portal bundle series#

This omnificent developer, best known for its legendary Half-Life series of first-person action games, has spent the last 14 years inspiring gamers and the industry with bold new ideas. But Valve, an independent studio of over 250 world-class artists that Forbes magazine estimates is worth as much as $4 billion, thinks different. Game companies get ossified into a schedule of releasing new sequels like clockwork every 12 or 24 months. Spend enough time around the video game industry and a pattern emerges that’s as regimented as Wolpaw’s sleep. The question is, will he be awake when this happens? Tonight, February 16, 2011, might be the night Portal 2, the new video game Wolpaw co-wrote at Valve in Seattle, will be finished after more than three arduous years of development. Tiptoeing around the house in darkness, Erik puts on a flannel button-down, says goodbye to his wife Diana, checks that his 11-month-old son Jack is soundly sleeping, and pulls out of the driveway in his Ford Taurus. “But nothing was as exciting as eight hours of sleep.” “It was great to be bad-ass until 8 p.m.,” he now says. These days he’s approaching middle age, but even back when he was in high school in Cleveland, Ohio – and nearly flunking out – neither girls nor his activities as part of a mischievous hacker group known for credit card fraud could shake his inveterate sleep routine. The same eight hours he gets every night. His body just knows it’s time to get up at the same moment every day, but only after a luxurious eight hours of sleep. It's four int he morning and Erik Wolpaw’s alarm clock doesn’t go off.