The biggest addition to Portal 2 is arguably the new two-player co-op campaign. But did you know that Valve was also working on competitive multiplayer? Valve's Erik Wolpaw told 1UP that they "had something up and running -- the best way to describe it is sort of speedball meets Portal. You know, a sports analog." Essentially, the goal was to get a ball from one end to another using portals.
Don't expect to find this mode in the game when it ships next year. Why? "It quickly became apparent that while it's fun for about two seconds to drop portals under people and things like that, it quickly just devolves into pure chaos," Wolpaw explained. "It lost a lot of the stuff that was really entertaining about Portal."
Although Valve have given up on competitive Portal-ing, that hasn't stopped the fan community from creating their own games. Team Portress, for example, mixes a Portal Gun into Team Fortress 2 with some hilarious results.
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Posted: Aug 27th 2010 4:16PM superfrog1993 said
I would LOVE a competitive portal mode. It could be amazing. Obviously I have no idea how it would work but these guys are obviously genius', surely they could come up with something. Even if it was chaos. Maybe a 5 on 1 and the 1 having a portal gun?
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Posted: Aug 27th 2010 5:37PM PlatinumSkeet said
@superfrog1993
If there were spikes, cliffs and other hazards to suddenly drop an opposing player onto it wouldn't be half bad...
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If there were spikes, cliffs and other hazards to suddenly drop an opposing player onto it wouldn't be half bad...
Posted: Aug 27th 2010 4:41PM Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi said
Chaos is too light of a word to describe what a multiplayer Portal game would be like...I can't even think of a word. Did George Lucas coin a phrase for when damn near all Jedi were vanquished from the Galaxy? That's the word I would use
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Posted: Aug 27th 2010 4:42PM (Unverified) said
@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my
If it's a sport and you are playing against other people than you would have to get past them as well, making it un-boring.
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If it's a sport and you are playing against other people than you would have to get past them as well, making it un-boring.
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