For Those Of Us Who Can't Get Enough Jumping Through Portals

 

 

 

The above video is for the official/unofficial prequel to the smash hit game Portal.

 

The prequel is called Portal: Prelude, and I say it's official/unofficial because, well, it's slightly complicated.  Technically it is not an offial prequel to the game because it wasn't made by any of the people who work for Valve.  This was a mod made by fans so that people get to have more fun shooting a portal gun at walls and jumping through them.  However, Valve is fully supporting the project and has even made the game mod available on Steam.  So if that doesn't make it an officially sanctioned mod, I don't know what does.

 

There are a few downsides though.  Even though the game is free, it is only available for the PC, and you need to own a copy of Portal already to add the mod to.  Directions on how to do that can be found on the game's website.  And the other bad news?  No GlaDOS.

 

Portal: Prelude, as its name states it, is an unofficial prequel to the game Portal. Its story revolves around the pre-GlaDOS epoch, even before she was plugged in. At this time, test subjects were monitored by real Aperture Science employees whose work was tedious, lengthy and repetitive. This is why they decided to build a great artificial intelligence that could both replace them in these difficult tasks, but also take responsibility for many other tasks within the complex and compete with Black Mesa's superiority. All employees of the Aperture Science complex are now eagerly awaiting GlaDOS. Maybe even a little too eagerly, as the upcoming events will tell...

 

So even though there's No GlaDOS, that doesn't mean the game is going to be missing out on the great humor of the first game.  This time though, it'll be funny comments from the researchers who are running the tests.

 

Now I just wish this game would come out on Xbox Live Arcade.  I'm not much of a PC game guy, but I'd buy this in a second if it was availabe for consoles.