Valve just released this first trailer of Portal, their very experimental first person puzzle game announced with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Half Life 2/Team Fortress 2. Clearly Prey gave the Valve developers some very nice ideas about how use this cool technology.

Portal trailer

BlimBlim
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 | 8:03 PM
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Valve just released this first trailer of Portal, their very experimental first person puzzle game announced with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Half Life 2/Team Fortress 2. Clearly Prey gave the Valve developers some very nice ideas about how use this cool technology.

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usr666

Commented on 2006-07-18 22:06:11

nice, add some action and I'll get it.

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roxwell

Commented on 2006-07-18 22:08:58

What an excellent, original idea.
Very well implemented too.

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Graafke

Commented on 2006-07-18 22:15:15

This looks awesome. I already got HL2 for the Xbox, but with Ep 1 and 2 with and TF 2 and Portal, I'm sure gonna buy it.

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jammy2049

Commented on 2006-07-18 22:15:34

nice. Same, i thought it was a prey knock off, but it makes it so different that you have the ability to actually choose where to put them. That looks really nice... So im guessing the single player will be challenges like that, but the multiplayer could be very interesting!

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Sath

Commented on 2006-07-18 22:19:24

I just love the graphics of the weapon. Looks so real, kind of like the scene from the Doom movie were it goes FPS.

But one thing though, no shooting? just puzzle stuff? kind of weak because the graphics are just beautiful especially the weapon view and the physics are awesome and as well.

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jekyl200

Commented on 2006-07-18 22:29:47 In reply to Burglarize

Posted by cooleo_no1

Looks immense.

Pretty amazing physics.

I'm a little scared of some of the puzzles though, that player must know the levels well, because it looks pretty damn confusing on some bits.

dude, im exactly the same, i was tryin to figure it out the whole way through the trailer!
at least its got singleplayer (maybe just single player!) so no one can see me and you bugger up for a few days lol!

o btw, this package is the one 360 game/thing thats got me REALLY excited!

in my list its above gears, halo 3 etc...

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Phaethon360

Commented on 2006-07-18 22:31:06

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/11351/HalfLife-2-Epi...

Unfortunately, it seems that the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions won't include Team Fortress 2, which will be part of the PC combo.

Dunno what that means for Portal, but I hope its still in Console version.

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thedudex06

Commented on 2006-07-18 22:57:07

wtf!!!! this game gunna be huge......ive never seen the soure engine running so good

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Jollipop

Commented on 2006-07-18 23:02:29

Looks pretty good, if somewhat confusing.

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Ferretwave333

Commented on 2006-07-18 23:38:31

wow I would have paid for this alone. But couple this with Episode 1, 2, the original classic Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and this! WOW. The graphics rock, but I'm very scared of whether I'll be able to figure this one out. The idea of a portal gun rocks, then it seems it also functions as a gravity gun too. Can't wait.

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FireWire

Commented on 2006-07-18 23:46:39

Man i would definitly pay money just for this game alone :D must be the first time in years im excited about a puzzle game!

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JediMasterMalik

Commented on 2006-07-18 23:46:39

I totally agree, looks incredible. I love the humour in the trailer! Can Valve do any wrong? Seems not. :D

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Jato

Commented on 2006-07-19 00:18:25

This looks insane, that gun especially just looks fantastic!
Obviously it doesn't have many enviromental stuff going on, but everything else is just spot on!
The motion blur, animations, framerate, overal feeling, etc...
I really hope they build a FPS around this with a story and all, but it looks like it's just basicly a first person puzzle game, pity....

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Hiro

Commented on 2006-07-19 00:32:00

Taken from the original press release via GameSpot;

"Team Fortress 2 and Portal will be included with all retail and Steam versions of Episode Two for the PC. In addition, these products plus Half-Life 2 and Episode One will be available in one tremendous offering for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. New videos from Episode Two, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 will be released next week. "

Seems both Portal and Team Fortress 2 will be included in the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Half Life 2

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xbox360

Commented on 2006-07-19 00:58:46 In reply to usr666

Posted by usr666

nice, add some action and I'll get it.

dont need action. just some realy strange and hard puzzles. and this trailers looks like that kind of game.

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DirtPipeMilkShake

Commented on 2006-07-19 01:21:37

all hail the mighty valve. the source engine is looking better than ever! cant wait to play this. i cant stop playing EP1.

Posted by usr666

nice, add some action and I'll get it.

are you ill? go play HL.

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Freniger

Commented on 2006-07-19 03:47:56

Not only does that look fun, but the graphics are incredible. I didn't the Source engine could pump out stuff like that.

Maybe it's because the enviroments are so small and low poly.

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Rob91883

Commented on 2006-07-19 06:01:28

This puzzle game is going to be amazing

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scazza

Commented on 2006-07-19 06:29:46

What people don't get is that this is :
-an expiriment
-a puzzle game

so the lack of action can be forgiven, as with the weird bland graphics at places.

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Acert93

Commented on 2006-07-19 06:34:38

The 4 people behind this game at the DigiPen school now work at Valve.

http://www.digipen.edu/main/Gallery_Games_2004#Nar...

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Kidmc

Commented on 2006-07-19 08:55:41

This is the s**t . It looks good and seems as though it will play great aswell , looking forward to this one .

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BooMMooB

Commented on 2006-07-19 11:03:15

exactly, this project was started up on a homemade engine way back in 2003-4 or sumthing. If anything, the prey developers got the inspiration from Portal, not the other way around.

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MoBiUGeArSkIn

Commented on 2006-07-19 12:51:24

Prey originally went into developement back in 1998 at 3D Realms. They demoed the game at E3, WITH PORTALS, but it was running on old tech. Shortly after it's demonstration things went bad and the project was shelved. So the world knew about Prey long before this thing.

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MightyHedgehog

Commented on 2006-07-19 12:55:08 In reply to BooMMooB

Actually, the Prey portal concept has been around and public for almost ten years. Not sure if they ever planned on giving the player as full control over them as N Drop and Portal do, but Prey's portaling system was shown off back in '97 while the game itself was started in '95...

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KillaCrow

Commented on 2006-07-19 18:02:00

Who cares who did what first, this game looks AWSOME. Its like messing with dimensions.

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