Portal 2 Achievements Hint at Half Life 2 Episode 3

Portal 2 has just received its full list of achievements, and speculation is already brewing as one of them seemingly hints at Half Life 2 Episode 3.

Portal 2 will be arriving in April, so the list of 50 achievements that has appeared is not that surprising.

In it, you'll find a lot of amusing challenges and clever names, pertaining both to the single-player campaign as well as the co-operative one, which, according to the achievements, puts a big focus on being creative and mischievous at the same time.

What's more important is that Internet users and Half Life fans are speculating that one achievement, Ship Overboard, which challenges you with finding the 'missing experiment', may hint at the infamous Half Life 2 Episode 3.

That game has been in development for a long time, and Valve continues to refrain from making any type of statement regarding it.

As such, fans have started going through any type of information released by the company in order to search for clues to its existence.

The achievement may hint at the Borealis ship, which, according to Episode 2, may be the key to eliminating the alien Combine from Earth because it was filled by Aperture Laboratories with powerful technology.

Both Portal 1 and 2 take place in the actual labs of the Aperture company, so a connection was rumored for quite some time.

Still, this is all just speculation, at the moment at least, so until we can see for ourselves in Portal 2, feel free to skim the list of 50 achievements that will be in the game.

Pit Boss (30 points) - Show that pit who's boss
Preservation of Mass (20 points) - Break the rules in Test Chamber 07
Pturretdactyl (5 points) - Use an Aerial Faith Plate to launch a turret
Lunacy (20 points) - That just happened
Drop Box (20 points) - Place a cube on a button without touching the cube
Overclocker (30 points) - Complete Test Chamber 10 in 70 seconds
No Hard Feelings (10 points) - Save a turret from redemption
Schrodinger's Catch (20 points) - Catch a blue-painted box before it touches the ground
Ship Overboard (10 points) - Discover the missing experiment
Final Transmission (20 points) - Find the hidden signal in one of the Rat Man's dens
Good Listener (5 points) - Take GLaDOS' escape advice
Scanned Alone (5 points) - Stand in a defective turret detector
The Part Where He Kills You (20 points) - This is that part
Bridge Over Troubling Water (10 points) - Complete the first Hard Light Bridge test
SaBOTour (10 points) - Make a break for it
Stalemate Associate (15 points) - Press the button!
Wake Up Call (5 points) - Survive the manual override
You Monster (5 points) - Reunite with GLaDOS
Undiscouraged (10 points) - Complete the first Thermal Discouragement Beam test
White Out (15 points) - Complete the first Conversion Gel test
Tunnel of Funnel (15 points) - Master the Excursion Funnel
Dual Pit Experiment (15 points) - Do the same test twice
Tater Tote (15 points) - Carry science forward
Vertically Unchallenged (15 points) - Master the Repulsion Gel
Stranger Than Friction (15 points) - Master the Propulsion Gel
Professor Portal (75 points) - After completing co-op, complete Calibration Course online with a friend who hasn’t played before
Air Show (20 points) - Perform 2 aerial gestures before touching the ground in co-op
Portal Conservation Society (20 points) - Complete Chamber 3 in the Hard-Light Surfaces co-op course using only 5 total portal placements
Empty Gesture (25 points) - Drop your co-op partner in goo while they are gesturing by removing the bridge under them
Party of Three (25 points) - Find the hidden companion cube in co-op test chamber
Narbacular Drop (25 points) - Place a portal under your co-op partner while they are gesturing
Asking for Trouble (10 points) - Taunt GLaDOS in front of a camera in each of the five co-op courses
Rock Portal Scissors (20 points) - Win 3 co-op games of rock-paper-scissors in a row
Friends List With Benefits (50 points) - While playing co-op, hug 3 different people on your friends list
Four Ring Circus (25 points) -Enter 4 different portals without touching the ground in co-op
Triple Crown (15 points) - Solve 3 co-op chambers in the Mass and Velocity course in under 60 seconds each
Still Alive (15 points) - Complete Course 4 with neither you nor your co-op partner dying
Can't Touch This (10 points) - Dance in front of a turret blocked by a hard light bridge in co-op
Smash TV (75 points) - Break 11 test chamber monitors
High Five (5 points) - Celebrate your cooperative calibration success
Team Building (10 points) - Complete all test chambers in the Team Building co-op course
Door Prize (20 points) - Examine all the vitrified test chamber doors
Portrait of a Lady (10 points) - Find a hidden portrait
You Made Your Point (10 points) - Refuse to solve the first test in Chapter 8
You Saved Science (100 points) - Complete all test chambers in all courses of co-op
Iron Grip (20 points) - Never lose a cube in Chamber 6 of the Mass and Velocity co-op course
Gesticul-8 (15 points) - Perform all 8 gestures of your own volition in co-op
Confidence Building (10 points) - Complete all test chambers in the Mass and Velocity co-op course
Bridge Building (15 points) - Complete all test chambers in the Hard-Light Surfaces co-op course
Obstacle Building (15 points) - Complete all test chambers in the Excursion Funnels co-op course

Portal 2 is set to appear for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on April 18, in North America, and April 22, in Europe.