Portal 2 ARG Unleashes Flood of Concept Art

[Invariel]

The 10th image of the Aperture series has two typos in the text. Intentional? Good show, Valve.

That image had 3 typos. Tomorrow had an extra 'M', and too had only one 'O'. Aperture Science had an extra A. Two of them needed to cut down on half of the overused letters, one had to put in a letter.

Extra 'm' in "tomorrow", check.
Extra 'a' in "Aperture", check.
"companies" should be "company's" (possessive, not plural.)
"its" should be "it's" (contraction, not possessive.)
Missing 'o' in "too", check. [Edited in.]
Extra 'a' in "Aperture", again.

That's five six now.

(And there is that extra 'o' in too. Not sure how I missed it this time around... I'll go edit that in.)

 

[V TheSystem V]

I'm still willing to believe there is a link to Half Life 2 Episode 3 in there...

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Some of that box art is waaay better than the actual design.

I'm fond of image 21 and image 1.

Anything that shows off the core gameplay mechanics in a very minimalist way. I've never liked the whole floating, slightly transparent head approach to box art, glad they didn't go that way.

Had to refresh the bloody captcha about six times before I got one that was legible.

 

[Zhukov]

Y'know, some (Note: some, definitely not all) of those box art designs are way better then what they ending up going to with.

Also, I strongly approve of tank-top Chell.

Just saying.

 

[mechanixis]

Damn, some of that boxart is mindblowingly good.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

That is one giant chicken!

Yeah, I saw that too. I really hope there's a giant chicken in the final game.

Just an FYI. A lot of these images contain secret second images which you can find using photoshop. Those images are of various locations in Seattle. People found the locations IRL and when you map all of them out using google maps it (mostly) spells the word PRELUDE. Thats actually what the state of the ARG is at the time of writing.

Wow, really? Jesus, that's impressive. The only people crazier then the guys who come up with this stuff is the people who figure it all out.

 

[Marik Bentusi]

I'm happy with the one they went with, I felt the others didn't quite reflect the game properly - I have yet to play the game of course, my info is based on trailers, teasers and the original Portal game.
Some of them, especially the retro-futuristic ones, would make nice collectors editions tho for those that already know about the Portal 'Verse and would just like a pretty cover.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I tabbed into the pictures by clicking on the first Box art (many of those are distinctly better than the official box art, btw) and saw that it said 1 of 30. I said "ooh 30 Pictures in total. Not bad, Not bad at all!"

Then I realized that first slide-show was for Box Art only O_O

 

[Ekit]

With all those awesome box arts to choose from, how could they pick the one they did???

 

[Quaxar]

An Aperture scientist with an afro? I just hope we get to meet that guy!

 

[King_Serpent]

The giant chickens are obviously the main component in constructing portal guns. As we all learned from Bionic Commando a organic brain is the only way to get electronics to work. (Robots made the same way). So simple.

 

[Hydro14]

Just an observation from the concept art for Chell, it seems like several of them have a lot more cybernetics around the legs than before; anyone else reckon that the reason why the player couldn't move at the end of the first game is now taking on a darker meaning?

 

[Thrashgrinder]

anyone knows whats up with the chickens?

 

[teknoarcanist]

Is it weird that some of this unused cover art is making me optimistic about the game itself? Getting this awesome 60's retro-future feel. Reminds me of 2001.

 

[headphonegirl]

Sooo pretty I can't wait till the game hits uk shores

 

[duchaked]

in the words of Kaylee
look at all the Pretty!!!

xD right there with you
and not to mention Shiny