But once you walked through the levels, you realized it was no ordinary game. Initially, it seemed very basic where you were the only living creature, trying to make your way through a peculiarly designed science lab full of cubes and lit in yellow and blue light. The same was true for design of the game. In the beginning, puzzles were basic - like creating a portal between two rooms and hence overcoming the wide gulf that separated them - but as the players progressed, the difficulty level increased. In a break from the usual fare, in this game you were only armed with a Portal Gun and were supposed to solve a number of puzzles to advance inside the Aperture Science Laboratories created by a mad scientist.

Portal was supposed to be a slick little game that could provide gamers, most of them hardcore first-person shooter players, some relief from the endless cycle of run, gun and sniping. It was released in 2007, bundled inside Valve’s Orange Pack. So let me fill you in a bit on the story of Portal and why the game has achieved a cult following. I am sure that many readers here may not share my excitement at this news. Portal 2, which is expected to pick the story inside decrepit and abandoned Aperture Science Laboratories, will be released in “coming holiday season”, or in other words, at the end of the year. The official announcement came a few days after some cryptic messages coded inside Morse code and audio streams were released to Steam users. Valve, the company which collided energy beams long before scientists in Geneva dreamed of it and gave us games like Half-Life, Counter Strike and Team Fortress 2, is working on a Portal sequel.

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