Talk:Core Hub Era

The Core Hub Era demonstrates Valve's first attempt to create a proper follow-up to Portal after the cancellation of F-STOP. This era is named for its inclusion of a hub world that would have interconnected the game's six testing courses.

Gameplay

The player was able to progress through the testing courses in any order.

Story

The player wakes up in a destroyed version of Aperture Science and discovers GLaDOS's chamber. The player reactivates GLaDOS and attempts to repair her by retrieving six personality cores. The ending of this iteration of Portal 2 is unknown.

Characters

Protagonists

Mel

Mel was the original protagonist for Portal 2. When playtesters were disappointed by GLaDOS not recognizing the player, Mel was replaced by Chell and became part of Portal 2's co-op campaign before being cut from the game completely.

Chell

Chell

GLaDOS

GLaDOS in her "carcass" form acts very erratically as a result of being destroyed by Chell in the first game.

Cores

Portal 2 originally had 6 personality cores that the player needed to retrieve.

Aquarium Sphere

early Space Core

Paranoid Sphere / Morgan Freeman Sphere

The Paranoid Sphere is an early version of the Morgan Freeman Sphere.

Pendleton

early Wheatley

Quint Sphere

early Adventure Core