You'll be able to play the cooperative mode of Valve's brainy, puzzle-adventure, Portal 2, cross-platform, as Mac or PC players can team up alongside gamers on PlayStation 3, the developer has announced.
It's just one part of the Half Life creator's pledge to make the PlayStation 3 edition the best console version of the upcoming game.
Despite a vocal history of criticising the PS3, Valve boss Gabe Newell appeared at Sony's press conference at E3 2010 to reveal his new found appreciation of the console. He said consoles are now about "giving gamers a complete, social-connected experience", and "by adopting an open approach to these challenges, the PlayStation 3 is going to excel in this area."
That "open approach" allows the PS3 version of Portal 2 to have features unavailable on Xbox 360, including cross-platform chat and persistent cloud-based storage of your PS3 save games through Steamworks. You'll also be given a free code to download the game on your PC or Mac through Steam.
Portal 2 depicts a lab-rat attempting to escape from te malicious robotic AI, GLaDOS. Much like the first game, you'll wield a handheld wormhole maker, capable of plopping down interconnected blue and orange portals. You also be messing with lasers, tractor beams and goopy, colour-coordinated gels that impart splashed surfaces with special, kinetic properties.
There's also the brain-busting two player mode where four individual wormholes work in tandem to beat some of
Portal's most devious stages yet. Portal 2 will be released in Europe on PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on 22 April.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
