Portal the Board Game
Valve plans on releasing a Portal board game later this year and while no release date has been set it’s being planned for the fourth quarter of the year. Like the video game it’s based off of the board game requires a lot of planning and strategy to play. It has a mixture of co-op and single player where players can either join forces when they choose to or just go solo and try to win on their own.
You play as Aperture test subjects moving around Aperture to try out the test chambers. The goal is to take the lead and take out all the other test subjects. Right now the game is in its prototype stages but it’s already such a unique and entertaining game that Cryptozoic, a company many video game creators to go for board game versions, didn’t have to make a lot of changes to the game saying “they had a really solid, functioning game already.”
While this game will easily appeal to all portal fans it’s intended to stand alone as its own entity, and if it does well it could mean more board games to come.
Jacob Carpenter is the writer for TSCN.TV and also a blogger under the name JSnakeC on IGN
