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It works because many tactics, such as 'rocket jumping' (aim the rocket launcher at the ground, jump, and then fire, using the force of the explosion to hurl you skyward), seem silly in a 'realistic' game but fit right into the cartoon visuals here. Most games veer toward photorealism, but TF2 is decidedly artificial. That's partly due to the game's unique art style. It's the dynamic of all these characters working in tandem (or sometimes just running around) that makes the game a wild experience. The medic can heal teammates, as well as temporarily make them invulnerable. The engineer can build sentry guns, health and ammo dispensers, or teleporters around the map. The spy can turn invisible or disguise himself as a member of either team.

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The scout can zip around with great speed. The sniper can kill you from across the map. The pyro is equipped with a flamethrower, making him utterly deadly in close quarters. The demoman is the explosives character, capable of launching grenades or placing them all over the ground as traps. He's slow, can absorb a lot of punishment, and armed with a bullet-spewing chain gun that can mow players down. The soldier is the most 'conventional' class because he's armed with a rocket launcher, shotgun, and spade (which is used as a melee weapon). Gone is the modern combat setting and in its place is a very animated, Pixar-inspired look.Īt the heart of Team Fortress 2 is the idea of team-based battles with nine distinctly different and colorful classes causing all sorts of mayhem. Then the game got moved to the back burner to disappear until it was resurrected and revealed last year. Valve later hired the creators of Team Fortress and got them to work on Team Fortress 2, which was originally going to feature modern combat. For instance, you could be a sniper, or a medic, or a demolitions guy, and so on. Instead of having everyone run around with the same guns and abilities, Team Fortress made you select what role you wanted to play on the battlefield. The original Team Fortress was a user-made mod, or modification, for QuakeWorld and was one of the very first team-based multiplayer games that introduced the idea of having distinctly different character classes in the mix. First, here is some Team Fortress history. Of course, Valve didn't spend all nine years working on the game, though TF2 has come a long way since the media got an initial glimpse of it way back in 1999. Judging from some time with the game, it certainly feels like Valve has put years of work into designing and balancing this class-based action game. After nine years in development, hopefully it will have been worth the wait,' Newell says. If you listen to the developer commentary in Team Fortress 2, the multiplayer action game that's part of the upcoming Half-Life 2: The Orange Box package, there's an introduction from Gabe Newell, the CEO and founder of developer Valve Software, that pokes a bit of fun at the game's incredibly long gestation period.

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