Portal Info

(i am making this via a request)

portal is a popular franchise which started off in 2007 with the valve game called "portal". portal is exactly what it says on the tin, at least at first glance, a game about portals, could not be any more simple, but then again, add a few test chambers, some creepy dark humor and some angry blood thirsty AI's with misleading tales about "cake" and then you have a perfect fun game. the first portal game was created by only a small team at value, just like a sort of side project, to add a small game with the release of the orange box to try and make it abit more full and so people did not realize they where buying games which they already owned like team fortress 2 and half life 2, nothing big was expected to come out of a portal, most certainly not a squeal. made into a cult game and a must play before you die, made even more popular with the credits music called "still alive". portal all together then is just one of these games which just shocked the world with its aspects of first person puzzle solving with no weapons apart from the "aperture science hand held portal device" and the odd one or two cubes.

spoilers ahead!

portal 1

portal 1 starts off with your character waking in up the aperture science enrichment center in which your character has spent some time in the "relaxation vault" in which she has been asleep for awhile, the universe portal is set in is the "half life" which i am sure most people already know what its about, but to put it in simple terms, that a company called black mesa opened up a huge portal to a alien world in which then the aliens came through and took over earth in what is called "the 7 hour war" and somehow a scientist can then go around with a crowbar beating up aliens and zombies with a strange man simply called "G-Man" stalking him around, yet the aliens take over earth sometime in the 2000's possibly 2001 and then proceed to run the earth well into the 2020's. your character in portal is called "chell" her age, and any past about her is uncertain, it is only known that she may of been involved with a "bring your daughter to work day" which aperture science was hosting. the facility which Chell is in is owned by "aperture science" a company who is funded by investors and government funding. Chell is woken up by an AI called "GLaDOS" which means "generic lifeform and disk operating system". something is unusual though about the facility chell is in, there are no signs of any other humans apart from herself. Chell herself is mute through the game, buy it is believed this is because Chell does not want to give her surroundings any attention but yet the truth is, is that valve did not want to waste any money on voice actors. chell then proceeds to do the tests which GLaDOS makes her do to. during the chambers chell finds openings and broken parts which graffiti and pictures, left by a character simply called "rat man" who seem obsessed with an "aperture science companion cube" chell finally makes it to the final test chamber where she was promised cake from GLaDOS but yet instead GLaDOS tried to kill her by sending her into the incinerator room but yet chell manages to escape using portals, chell then procedes to follow hints left by rat man to escape. hell finally makes it to GLados's chamber where chell uses a mixture of portals and a rocket turret to break the corrupted cores of GLados in which then makes her to crash and causes her generator to blow up, sending chell out of the facility, in which then she is dragged away by a "aperture science party escort robot" and then put into another relaxation vault where she is sent to sleep for a number of years.

the rest of the storyline is part of portal 2, which i will not go on about due to people who have not played it yet.

back story of aperture science

aperture science was created in the late 40's from a rich shower curtain manufacturer called "cave Johnson" in which he bought a large salt mine for a investment and for him to make a laboratory for discoveries in which he could make more money from, at this point in time, the main exports from aperture was salt, curtains and asbestos, some of the many inventions aperture science made are the hand held portal device, the weighted cube (a box) the super heavy duty colliding button (a big button) propostion gel (for running), Repulsion gel (for jumping) and many more. testing was very good and there was no money shortages from aperture science through the 50's and 60's. yet in the 70's aperture science started to run out of money, mainly due to their inventions being stolen from a rival company called "black mesa" and also due to lack of government funding and investors, he resorted to giving homeless people 60 dollars to do tests which where everything from portals, to making coal, to removing tumors. by the 80's aperture science had to fire most of its staff and the remaining staff where made to do the tests them selfs in a attempt to not waste as much money and to kill off a few non needed meaning more money saved. at this time, cave Johnson became very ill, from wither mercury poisoning or moon rock poisoning (most likely mercury because he talks about moon rock poisoning but yet it could be the mercury talking) he told aperture science to research in AI's, basically trying to make the facility completely self reliant so no staff would be needed and testing can continue with no need of costs. the facility began to make an AI for him to be placed in so he could continue to run the facility, but yet he died shortly before it was complete, and through his instructions, another person was put into the AI which later became to be known as GLaDOS. a few years later aperture science holed a "bring your daughter to work day" in which the employees took their daughters to work, on that day GLaDOS flooded the facility with a deadly nero-toxin and killed everyone. the daughters though are believed to have been placed in suspended animation in the relaxation vaults to do testing, Chell was one of these people. and from this point the game portal 1 began.

anyways, thats all the info i can say about portal without spoiling it for anyone who has not played portal 2 yet, but anyways, i hope this will help people who do not understand what is happening in portal.