{"id":11789,"date":"2010-06-18T13:31:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/e3-portal-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:12:57","slug":"e3-portal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/e3-portal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"E3: Portal 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/06\/portal2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"152\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a week which was pretty, well, <em>weak<\/em> for the PC at the E3 expo, Valve have cheered things up by showcasing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkwithportals.com\/\"><strong>Portal 2<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The enigmatic and iconic <strong>3D puzzle game<\/strong> that saw us outwitting a twisted artificial intelligence named <strong>GLaDOS<\/strong>, hardly needs a sequel, but I&#8217;m certainly excited about the prospect. The original PC ending was patched earlier this year to make room for Portal 2, although the song <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RthZgszykLs\"><strong>Still Alive<\/strong><\/a> made it quite clear that although GLaDOS may have been defeated, she was anything but dead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Few games have ever forced players to think in such original ways, and Portal 2 promises to add some cool, mind-bending new tools to GLaDOS&#8217; experiments. It should certainly keep people too busy to worry about rumored continuations of the Half Life series. It&#8217;s scheduled for a <strong>2011<\/strong> release, but if that&#8217;s too long to wait, you could always give the retro 2D tribute <a href=\"http:\/\/asciiportal.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>ASCIIpOrtal<\/strong><\/a> a go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a week which was pretty, well, weak for the PC at the E3 expo, Valve have cheered things up by showcasing Portal 2. 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The original PC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/e3-portal-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;E3: Portal 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2970],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-11789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionportal-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.4 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a week which was pretty, well, weak for the PC at the E3 expo, Valve have cheered things up by showcasing Portal 2. 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