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O.P. Portal: Prelude
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Portal: Prelude is an unofficial prequel to Valve's Portal. In contrary to the many map packs and community maps we've seen since the release of this game, this is actually a full-blown modification of the game. Portal: Prelude contains a whole new story with nineteen new levels, new sounds and new portal techniques which makes this mod truly stand out. To be honest, this is a whole new game, and it's completely free.
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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...
Source: Portal: Prelude - About
The mod was announced as a complete surprise, one day the website just popped up and the single blog post in it pointed to the official trailer on Vimeo (HD download is here). The news spread quickly and the more people got to know, the more they got excited. Everything about this is quality, all levels have been constructed with all gaming aspects (complexity, hints, originality) in mind and tested thoroughly.

As much as the announcement was a surprise, so was its release. Originally planned and announced to be released at the first birthday of the Orange Box, they came with another surprise yesterday and told the world that it will already be available one day before the official release on FilePlanet. Unfortunately, this means long waiting times and not too great download speeds when you're a free user (like almost everyone, no?) but it's definitely worth the time when you have followed their website for the last two weeks. On the other side, it'll be available on a dozen of other official mirrors at October 9th at midnight GMT+01 (that's the same as UTC or the time in England with DST taken in account).

I already downloaded it! Can't wait to get it running, have some homework to do first. :( Actually, I was surprised that no-one made a topic about this before... Where are the gamers here? :P

Official website and weblog: http://www.portalprelude.com/
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Portal: Prelude - by Matti on 10-09-2008 at 05:21 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Felu on 10-09-2008 at 05:24 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by aNILEator on 10-09-2008 at 05:25 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Matti on 10-09-2008 at 05:39 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Mnjul on 10-09-2008 at 05:48 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Matti on 10-09-2008 at 05:53 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Th3rmal on 10-09-2008 at 08:11 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by prashker on 10-09-2008 at 08:15 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Th3rmal on 10-09-2008 at 08:17 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by prashker on 10-10-2008 at 08:48 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by lopardo on 10-11-2008 at 12:28 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by aNILEator on 10-11-2008 at 07:28 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Matti on 10-11-2008 at 07:59 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Kenji on 10-11-2008 at 08:50 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by aNILEator on 10-12-2008 at 08:37 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Mike on 10-12-2008 at 09:00 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Matti on 10-12-2008 at 09:23 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Th3rmal on 10-12-2008 at 09:37 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Jimbo on 10-12-2008 at 10:29 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Tardz on 10-12-2008 at 10:46 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by aNILEator on 10-12-2008 at 04:17 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Matti on 10-12-2008 at 04:59 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by TeRaViK86 on 10-12-2008 at 05:47 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Mike on 10-12-2008 at 07:47 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by prashker on 10-12-2008 at 07:58 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by ipab on 10-13-2008 at 11:43 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Discrate on 10-14-2008 at 12:41 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by aNILEator on 10-14-2008 at 02:49 PM
RE: RE: Portal: Prelude - by Discrate on 10-14-2008 at 03:06 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by beestingz on 10-16-2008 at 11:05 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by zogo on 10-19-2008 at 05:34 PM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by kurir on 03-16-2010 at 09:03 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by vows on 03-16-2010 at 11:25 AM
RE: Portal: Prelude - by Chancer on 03-16-2010 at 11:49 PM


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