Portal: Still Alive is barely alive.
July 23rd, 2008 |
Well, barely interesting. A few details have emerged on the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade title, which was announced at E3.
Portal: Still Alive will not extend the Portal story. Sorry, no news about what’s happened to Chell. No details about the wherabouts of GLaDOS. Not even confirmation of the Companion Cube’s fate. Instead, it will essentially be a collection of newish maps with the same Portal gameplay as before.
If you caught the “ish” above, you weren’t reading it wrong. The maps are adapted from Portal: The Flash Version Map Pack, a third-party add-on to the original game. Those maps were originally developed for a Flash version of the game.
So while we’ll be able to enjoy a few new puzzles and earn a few more achievements, Still Alive doesn’t seem to be quite as exciting as its title implies. Valve has said that more Portal is on the way, although no specific plans have been annoucned.
So while GLaDOS may be still alive, you won’t find her here.
