Valve tried putting competitive multiplayer into Portal 2, but ditched it due to the ensuing �chaos�.
�Along with co-op, [we had] the idea of sort of a competitive Portal multiplayer,� game writer Erik Wolpaw told
1UP.
�We went down that path, actually, for a little while and had something up and running. The best way to describe it is sort of speedball meets Portal. You know, a sports analog. And it quickly became apparent that while it�s fun for about two seconds to drop portals under people and things like that, it quickly just devolves into pure chaos.
�It lost a lot of the stuff that was really entertaining about Portal, which was puzzle-solving. Cooperative puzzle-solving was just a much more rewarding path.�
Portal 2 will include
two-player co-op when it releases next February.
Can you imagine Portal DeathMatch with 16 players? Someone should mod it.