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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 is a Valve game released with the Orange Box a few years ago. Unlike a lot of FPSes, (cough CoD cough) it's still being continually updated with free DLC. Not just bug fixes, either, maps, content, new weapons, and more. It's a class-based FPS that's one of my favorite games; I've played significantly more of it than almost any other game. There are a few modes: Capture the Flag, which everyone is familiar with, Control Point, where you need to get team members on specific areas to win, Payload, where you and your team members push a bomb through a map, and Arena, where once you die, you stay dead, and the team with alive members at the end wins. All of these are pretty intuitive and fun. There are nine different classes, which each have their own weapons, speed, character model, voice lines, and things they're designed to do. The demoman, for example, has weapons designed to set intricate traps and destroy the buildings of the engineer, who builds sentry guns and ammo-replenishing dispensers. The engineer is also weak to the spy, who disguises as an enemy team member, can disable the engineer's buildings, can turn invisible, and can kill anyone in one hit by stabbing them in the back. The spy, however, can easily be killed by the pyro, who burns everything with his flamethrower. The pyro's pretty bad against the Heavy, a big Russian guy with a lot of health and a very powerful minigun... and you get the idea. All the classes are designed to be good against other classes and bad against different ones, and you'll learn all that if you start the game. This game has been my favorite FPS for a long time, and it's going to stay that way for a long time. The intricate details, character personalities, cheerful cartoon graphics, and complexity all lead to this being a great game. If you don't own this game, get it. If you do own it, play it!

28 comments:

  1. good review, include some pics though!

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  2. ive always wanted to get this game but never have. whats the easiest way to get a copy?

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  3. My friends always want me to play TF2 for some reason lol

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  4. dude that sounds like such a sick game! how come ive never heard of it? is it a worldwide release?

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  5. Eh, I'm too lazy to include pics, google it. :P

    The easiest way to get a copy is to download Steam and buy it there. Yeah, it's a worldwide game.

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  6. Favourite class is easily the spy.

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  7. True, steam is gotta be the best way to get TF2.

    and the Hat. That HAT!

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  8. Plus, you need to know and experience TF2 is you want to get a lot of the internet cultural references.

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  9. It's so good game :P
    "Gentlemen"

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  10. TF2 has been popular for a long time, you make a very valid point with regards to the classes, it's nice for there to be such a variation in different play styles, something that's been cloned by all the more 'modern' shooters that you see on consoles etc. This is the ORIGINAL class-based shooter in my opinion, and what a great one it is.

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  11. I've had tf2 for a very long time but have only just recently gotten into it. Weird, huh?

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  12. I wasn't a fan of the first TF but it sounds like this one is a bit of an improvement!

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  13. I really liked tf2 but after all the hats i can't get back into it

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  14. Team Fortress is probably the best bang for bucks gamer package ever released!

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  15. I am a big fan of TF2! love playing the different classes

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  16. Always wanted to play it, never did though :/

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  18. TF2 is incredible, soooo much fun to be had! +follow

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  19. Oh yeah every valve game is an epic game!

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  20. I've just played Half-life 2, and GMod, never tried this :(

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  21. All I ever hear about Team Fortress 2 is good things. Might have to finally give in and check it out.

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  22. great great review. made me wanna play it so bad.

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  23. How much is TF2? And what does the DLC cost average?

    Considering it now, since i've heard so much about it!

    Followed.

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  24. DLC is completely free. Forgot to mention that.

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