Portal

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:11 pm

This game looks incredible, a very original puzzle type game created by Valve that will be included with the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2. It is a sequel/remake of the game 'Narbacular Drop' which was made as a final project in 2005 by students at DigiPen institute of technology. The plot is that you are armed with the "Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device" which in addition to holding all the properties of Half-Life 2's gravity gun can create a portal between two points providing instant travel. It's hard to explain but Gamestop has done a good job of summarizing the gameplay:

GameStop wrote:In other situations, you may be under fire by a gun droid. So all you need to do is shoot a portal open over the gun, then shoot a portal open beneath a crate, then watch the crate fall through the hole and crush the gun. It gets even crazier, and the diagrams shown in the trailer showed some incredibly crazy things that you can attempt, like creating a series of Portal so that you're constantly chasing yourself.

Words really can't to justice to the originality of this gameplay, so you'd best check out the hi-res version of the trailer here.

(Note: If the hi-res mirror goes down due to traffic, it's big and is on the front page of Digg, you can get the torrent for it here, or watch the lo-res version at Gamespot)

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:17 pm

looks sweet. Really awesome concept. Valve just seems to push the bar of originality.

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:25 pm

that is honestly the coolest thing i have ever seen in my life, i have to buy this game, i hope to gawd they come out with a xbox 360 version!

Dr.Cox · Post by **Dr.Cox** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:51 pm

That Game looks Insane .

I must have it.

ExileLord · Post by **ExileLord** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:46 am

Reminds me of the portals in Prey. Looks fantastic.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:22 pm

r0tten wrote:that is honestly the coolest thing i have ever seen in my life, i have to buy this game, i hope to gawd they come out with a xbox 360 version!

HAHA! no. Its all on Valve. On Steam. On PC.

Unless.....

I think theres a Lua Script that can allow you to do this in GMod, but its not as pretty and slick.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:43 pm

TOTAL WIN!!111

Best non-combat game ever, and even then it owns almost all combat games... It scares me without monsters or enemies (except turrets)...its awesomeness cannot be measured by conventional means.

I WANT.

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:43 pm

Cuda wrote:
r0tten wrote:that is honestly the coolest thing i have ever seen in my life, i have to buy this game, i hope to gawd they come out with a xbox 360 version!
HAHA! no. Its all on Valve. On Steam. On PC.

Actually:

Valve wrote:Valve

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:02 am

I think that ias the most amazing game I've ever seen, most puzzle games are 2d a 3d puzzle game has got to be awesome.