Portal Stories: Mel, the Portal 2 mod we’ve all been waiting for

Portal Stories

‘Portal 2’ is excellent as is; nobody disputes it. Still, the modder community never ceases in its efforts to expand the possibilities of games, and ‘Portal Stories: Mel’ is in all probability one of the best examples. More than a mod, we could almost say that it is an entirely new game.

This is so because ‘Portal Stories: Mel’ has a new protagonist (Mel), a new core of personality that keeps him company, a new and unknown threat, more than 20 unique maps and a new story, as well as new dialogues, textures, models, and animations. As you can see, a complete mod will surely delight all of us who want more when we reach the end of ‘Portal 2’.

And yes, as you can see in the video, even the Portal Gun has been redesigned to give it a retro touch. In this case, according to official information, it is a prototype from the 70s. The mod, which is unrestricted, has passed the filter on Steam Greenlight and will be available on Valve’s platform sometime this first quarter.

System Requirements

To play ‘Portal Stories: Mel’ it will be necessary to have a copy of ‘Portal 2’ and meet these minimum requirements according to your operating system:

Windows

  • Operating system: Windows 8.1 / Windows 7 / Vista / XP
  • Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (the superior) or AMD64X2 (the ideal)
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics card: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000 or higher
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Hard disk: 7 GB available
  • Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible card

Mac

  • Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6.7 or higher
  • Processor: Intel Core Duo (2GHz or better)
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics card: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher / Intel HD Graphics 3000 or higher
  • Hard disk: 7 GB available

Steam OS / Linux

  • Operating system: Ubuntu 12.04
  • Procesador: Dual core de Intel o AMD a 2.8 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Tarjeta gráfica: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1
  • Hard disk: 7 GB available
  • Sound: OpenAL compatible card