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Line 1: − + − '''Portal''' is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by [[Valve Corporation]]. Set in the Half-Life universe, the two games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman test subject, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within (now abandoned) the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence computer, GLaDOS, that controls the facility. Each test involves using the "Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device" - the "portal gun" - that creates a human-sized wormhole-like connection between nearly any two flat surfaces.+ + − == Setting ==+ − Both series take places in underground labs (both are also rival to each others), Black Mesa (enough its later sequels are take somewhere else in eastern europe put dubbed 'City 17') and forementioned Aperture Science. {{update}} − + − + − + − − == Genre == − Half-life is one of several 1990s games that being Cyberpunk genre as well several Biopunk elements into video gaming (gameplay and enivornment), Its offical sequel Half-life 2 take place 20 to 30 years in future were Earth take control by Combine (transhumanist soldiers) and thier Synth lords (plays word Synthic biology). Which itself take 'Up to eleven' cyberpunk dystopia they only punished people must undergo body modification into that enemies (Combine and weaker Stalkers). − − Portal series is take place in Postcyberpunk-style ruins of underground part to now long ditched corporation damaged by AI named GLaDOS. − − == Transhumanist themes == − Both series share simliar ideas of types of Transhumanism. {{update}} + + +
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'''Half-Life''' (stylized ''HλLF-LIFE'' only first game of series or just '''λ''') is a series of first-person shooter video games that share a single science fiction alternate history. The games in the series all utilize either the GoldSrc or Source engines and are linear, narrative, single-player titles.
The '''Half-Life''' universe encompasses the first person shooter Half Life series, as well as the puzzle-based Portal series.
== Half Life ==
Half-life incorporates both [[cyberpunk]] and [[biopunk]] elements into the gameplay and setting and sequel Half-life features an alien force called the "Combine" who later transform [[transhuman treachery|treacherous humans]] into their "transhuman allies". They are led by "Synth" lords, a play on the idea of synthetic biology.
'''Gordon Freeman''' is the protagonist the half life series, an employee of Black Mesa and physics graduate. Later in the series he's hailed as saviour-like revolutionary against the occupying forces.
== Characters ==
== Portal ==
''Gordon Freeman'' - main hero of most all of half life series, former scientist from Black mesa and gradated from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] with PhD in [[Theoretical Physics]], now unemployee and treated later of series as official savior-like revolutionary against combine.
The '''Portal''' series is take place in apparently post-apocalyptic ruins of the Aperture Science underground research facility, which has been taken over by an [[control problem|out of control]] [[AI]] named GLaDOS.
''Chell'' - main heroine from portal series, test subject from (abandoned) aperture science. Some part semi-reveal in sequel portal 2 that implies that was forced being test subject after massacre with neurotoxin years before events of game. {{update}}
'''Chell''' wakes up as a test subject within the abandoned complex and must discover what is going on whilst being subjected to a series of increasingly deadly test chambers. However the advanced portal gun technology allows her to innovatively defeat both the tests and the AI in the end.
== External links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_%28series%29 Wikipedia:Half-Life (series)]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_%28series%29 Wikipedia:Portal (series)]
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