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Portal: Still Alive - suck it Xbox

# Jul 22, 2008 at 4:04 PM

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Hellblazer 77363

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It is simply the Portal Map pack released by the "Flash Version Map Pack"

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There is much confusion over what exactly Portal: Still Alive, an upcoming Xbox Live Arcade release of Valve’s excellent platformer-thing, is. After all, it was announced amazingly vaguely during Microsoft’s E3 press conference, and there was little followup. So I asked Valve’s Doug Lombardi, and he explained it to me.

Portal: Still Alive is a standalone version of the original Portal that can be purchased through Xbox Live Marketplace. In addition to Portal itself, it will include a number of levels that are not part of the game’s story, and do not feature story-related elements such as GLaDOS voiceover.

The game is exclusive to Live Arcade, at least for a while, but PC players can get basically the same experience right now anyway. Here’s why.

You may have seen Portal: The Flash Version, a clever Flash-based tribute to Valve’s game. You are slightly less likely to have seen the Portal: The Flash Version MapPack, which recursively ports the Flash game’s levels to Portal itself.

Still Alive’s bonus content consists of 360-certified versions of the levels from that pack. So if you’re a PC Portal owner who, like me, was feeling excluded by Still Alive’s bonus content, fear not: you get to play that content first, and for free.

# Jul 22, 2008 at 4:21 PM

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RAD27-D 82601

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Not even real Valve maps with a nice Glados voice over. Then it's not even worth paying for...

# Jul 22, 2008 at 4:27 PM

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Black Markel J 83053

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Why didn't they just say that at E3? They made us 360 guys think we are getting an original game.

# Jul 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM

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Mykul 81567

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The Micro$oft is a lie

# Jul 23, 2008 at 7:46 AM

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Verden Odela 85182

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They did say at e3 that is was just bonus maps and achievements.

# Jul 23, 2008 at 8:25 AM

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warsjosh 86037

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Like anyone even thought the expansion was coming out exclusively ...

# Jul 23, 2008 at 9:03 AM

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Verden Odela 85182

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I find portal extremely hard on the Ps3 and 360 >.<

Console shooters are lame

# Jul 23, 2008 at 9:39 AM

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BuckyKat 82158

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I've played the map pack on the PC. It's really well done and very difficult. I can't say that it's worth paying for, but it does give you some extra Portal goodness.