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If you choose to play as an Engineer then the game becomes ‘My First RTS’ as you find yourself constantly setting up defences to protect vital areas or creating forward command points with teleporters, dispensers and trusty sentry guns to keep things safe. If you’re looking to frag some noobs you can load up a Soldier or a Heavy and Rocket/Chaingun dozens of people to hell.īut play as a Scout and your priorities suddenly change, your minimised health make you play the game as platformer more than anything else, rushing to get to key areas before defences have been set up and using your trusty double jump to get to inaccessible areas. What the class system does is change TF2 from being a traditional FPS into something a little more interesting and multifaceted.

Each class has its own particular nuance and with a few hours play you start to figure out exactly what each situation requires in terms of classes. To do this you can use any of the nine classes from the rocket spamming Soldier to the Double Jumping Scout.

In former you’ve got to infiltrate the enemy’s base and grab their intelligence before they do the same to you, in the former you’ve got to gain and keep control of key ‘capture points’ throughout the map. The objectives fall into two categories, capturing the intelligence and territorial control. You’re part of a team, in this case Red and Blu (sic), you have objectives to complete, and you have nine classes with which to complete them with. To those unfamiliar with the core concept of Team Fortress here’s the basics. The bright visuals, hilarious character designs, unique taunts and Looney Tunes style play environments give the game a vibrancy that was missing from its dour ancestors.

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What TF2 brings to the Team Fortress series is a new sense of fun. All of this wrapped up in graphics which are clearly inspired by the work of Pixar and Tex Avery and sprinkled with liberal doses of black humour.

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Grenades are gone, Snipers have been toned back, balance has been enforced with near totalitarian zeal, and team based play has been brought to the forefront even more so than in its PC forebears. The bones of the game may still be in place, but everything else is exceptionally different. What TF2 does is bring everyone back down to a level pegging it does so by reinventing itself. Otherwise you’d spend entire games watching your screen turn red every thirty seconds as yet another ‘leet sniper’ headshotted you through the narrowest possible openings. Like Darwinism in PC form TFC was the kind of application which required a near militaristic fervour and months of practice to become even useable. Indeed calling it a game would at least imply fun was being had, TFC was instead a beast of immense concentration. Those unlucky enough to join a Team Fortress Classic/Gold match months or years after its release would encounter something which wasn’t particularly a game.

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What we eventually got was a game which seems almost designed to piss off purists and which is also incredibly, incredibly, good fun.Įven when it launched as a Quake mod Team Fortress was always ‘serious business’. You only need to look at the Counter-Strike like images (look right and weep) from early development screenshots to see how rapid a departure the finished product was from what was being created. Ideas were created, honed, modified, abandoned, resurrected, and abandoned again, for something close onto eight years. Like Superman Returns, TF2 had something of a troubled development. Although to be honest, the current incarnation probably only took a few years. This level of passion, over something so trivial, is perhaps the greatest sign of how well designed the game is.Īnd well designed it should be, what with its ten year development cycle and all. This is fine when you’ve been routed by some Sun Tzu style shit, the entire team coalescing to destroy you and everything you hold dear, however when the other team wins because they managed to slip in through a hole in your otherwise ironclad defences it’s easy to hit levels of high octane hatred.