"Unbelievable," I was earnestly but dispassionately told by the in-game narrator in Valve's upcoming teleport-centric action puzzle game Portal, after solving one of its early challenges. "You, subject name here, must be the pride of subject hometown here."Check it out over here.
"Subject name here" and "subject hometown here" were, of course, delivered in a different, somewhat less distinct, tone of voice, highlighting the lack of personal information as if to make the existing lack of humanity in Portal's cold, sterile environments that much less personal.
Valve's Portal previewed
Posted on Tuesday, May 08 2007 @ 3:10 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck