“Portal” by Valve Corporation
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 17
Title:
- Portal
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Valve Corporation
Description:
Portal is a new type of single-player game from Valve, creators of the Half-Life and Counter-Strike games. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon.
The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment, similar to the way Half-Life 2’s Gravity Gun changed our approach to how an object may be leveraged in any given situation. Throughout Portal, which is played from a first-person perspec-tive, players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuver objects, and themselves, through space.
Portal is coming in the fall of 2007 as part of The Orange Box, which also includes Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Two. The Orange Box will be available for the PC, as well as the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 console systems.
More information: www.steamgames.com
Hardware:
PC
Software:
Steam/Source
