The Connections between Half Life and Portal

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Published on April 7, 2020 4:00:25 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIeAxEy8n90

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Half-Life: Alyx (2020)

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With the release of Half Life: Alyx, I’ve really delved back into the cavern known as the Half Life/Portal lore. Since I was learning a lot, I thought I’d share it with you all! So that’s what I did! Anyway let’s hit 100 subs🤞


Half-Life: Alyx is a 2020 virtual reality (VR) first-person shooter developed and published by Valve. Taking place between the events of Half-Life (1998) and Half-Life 2 (2004), players control Alyx Vance as she is tasked on a mission to seize a Combine superweapon. Players use VR to interact with the environment and fight enemies, using "gravity gloves" to manipulate objects, similar to the gravity gun from Half-Life 2. Traditional elements from the series return, such as physics-based puzzles, combat and exploration, as well as some survival horror aspects.

Portal is a 2007 puzzle-platform game developed and published by Valve. It was released in a bundle, The Orange Box, for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and has been since ported to other systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, and Android (via Nvidia Shield).

The Half-Life and Portal universe, also known as the Half-Life universe or the Portal universe, is a science fiction universe created by Valve Corporation in 1998, with the release of the video game Half-Life on the PC platform. It is told through four related story arcs, each stemming from a game: Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Portal, and Portal 2.

Half-Life has spawned since then many modifications, expansions, and sequels, most of which set in the same universe. Most of them were developed by Valve; however, Half-Life's three expansions, Blue Shift, Opposing Force and Decay were developed by Gearbox Software.

In 2005, Electronic Arts took over distribution of the Half-Life series.

Since its first installment, the series has been introduced to many consoles such as the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, as well as Mac. Starting on the GoldSrc engine, a modified Quake engine, the series now runs on the Source engine.

The protagonist of the Half-Life series is Gordon Freeman, a former Black Mesa employee whose attempt to escape from Black Mesa ends up in his employment by the G-Man. In the canon expansions and spin-offs, the featured playable characters are not Gordon Freeman, but rather a HECU Corporal, a security guard, and a pair of scientists, all of them as eager as Gordon to make their way out.

In the spin-off series, including Portal and its sequel, Portal 2, the main protagonist, Chell, a Test Subject, is detained in the Aperture Science computer-aided Enrichment Center, run by the A.I. GLaDOS, the series' main antagonist.

Outro: https://youtu.be/Y25eBJz5XNw