Wheatley



known as Wheatley, is a personality core of masculine programming and English West Country accent who appears in the single-player campaign of Portal 2.

He serves as the game's, guiding Chell through her efforts in escaping the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.

Wheatley is voiced by British actor and comedian.

Portal 2






Aesthetics
The Portal 2 aesthetic theme is showcased in Act 4 of the single-player campaign. It is characterized by either mass-scale destruction of the chamber, or a regular clean theme with the occasional behind-the-scenes peek, also including Monitors. The walls are torn apart and the player can see all sorts of things outside of the chamber: Gel pipes, Pneumatic Diversity Vents, other chambers, catwalks, and sometimes fire. Each test is monitored by Wheatley shown on a screen. Soundscapes include intense destruction sounds: metal wronks, banging, and groans. This is the last theme the player will encounter in the Portal 2 Single Player campaign. The large destruction of the chambers is caused by Wheatley's terrible handling of the facility. A main part of the map is the outside area, which is seen through the gaps and tears of the test, explosions are also common.

List of Wheatley-Themed Test Chambers

 * sp_a4_intro.bsp
 * sp_a4_tb_intro.bsp
 * sp_a4_tb_trust_drop.bsp
 * sp_a4_tb_wall_button.bsp
 * sp_a4_tb_polarity.bsp
 * sp_a4_tb_catch.bsp
 * sp_a4_stop_the_box.bsp
 * sp_a4_laser_catapult.bsp
 * sp_a4_laser_platform.bsp
 * sp_a4_speed_tb_catch.bsp
 * sp_a4_jump_polarity.bsp

Walls

 * Textures - Black: Same as Clean, with black_wall_metal_006a-f.
 * Textures - White: Same as Clean, with checkered tiles (white_floor_tile_002b and white_floor_tile004b).
 * Checkered tiles are used on the floor\walls more often to point an important location (such as where to funnel, where the funnel ends, etc).

Mechanics

 * Excursion Funnel
 * Frankenturret
 * Hard Light Bridge
 * Laser Field
 * Material Emancipation Grill
 * Monitor
 * Pedestal Button
 * Turret
 * Track Platform
 * Vital Apparatus Vent

Trivia

 * Appearance-wise, Wheatley appears to be a variant of GLaDOS' Intelligence Core (the one telling the cake recipe), with a blue "eye" and three dots, though Wheatley has dots only on his right side and possesses a white light as his iris instead.


 * Wheatley's heard in the Meet Wheatley video shown at E3 2010 uses a placeholder voice provided by Valve animator Richard Lord. Due to very positive feedback, Valve considered at some point making the voice official. Later Lord himself emphasized that his voice was temporary, saying that "theres no way you will be dissapointed with the final voice - i'm over the moon with who it might be." [sic], until it was announced that Stephen Merchant would provide the final voice.


 * Portal 2 then won the award for "Best Performance by a Human Male" with Stephen Merchant's portrayal of Wheatley.


 * Wheatley makes a cameo appearance in an official plugin (Warning! May contain NSFW content), created by Bethesda and Valve, for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,


 * In the developer commentary of Portal 2, it is revealed that he was originally intended to have tried escaping with other subjects prior to waking Chell up.




 * Wheatley, alongside GLaDOS and Chell, appears in LEGO Dimensions;




 * Wheatley makes a guest appearance as a Spy weapon in Team Fortress 2 (as the Ap-Sap)


 * Wheatley's situational awareness is the same as his intelligence, very low.