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July 17, 2006
The real deal is coming!
I'm totally syked ...
At the beginning of this month, I posted about my love of Team Fortress. The game is one of my all time favorites, and it is a total classic. Today, I received some of the greatest gaming news that I've heard since the day that Half-Life 2 was announced.
Team Fortress 2 is coming out with the release of Half-Life, Episode Two!!
The official image released by Valve on SteamPowered.com.
Not much else is known about this new Team Fortress other than it has a cartoonish look about it. The only thing that has been released thus far is the image (seen above) with a cast of characters. Valve promises to release a video of TF2 next week.
The really interesting thing about this release is that it is in no way similar to what Valve originally promised Team Fortress 2 to be. Originally designed as a "squad-based military action game" that "will include many elements of a typical strategy game". In other words, the original plan for TF2 was to be more realistic and militaristic than it's predicessor.
The original military and realistic concept for Team Fortress 2.
I've read that there have been mixed reviews of this new Team Fortress. Some people are really digging the idea of the cartoonish look and feel while others were hoping for something more realistic in the way of what Counter Strike: Source is. Personally, I like the idea of this new TF2. The way that I look at it, if I really really want something more along the lines of a Counter Strike based game, I still have the option of playing Fortress Forever once it is officially released.
PC gaming has gotten very interesting lately.
Update: Valve released the video that they promised. After watching it several times, I find that I'm digging my all time favorite class: The Sniper. I like the "Dirty Harry" slash outlaw renegade cowboy look that he has going on. He really does look like a bad ass.
Don't mess with the sniper, man.
~out...
Posted by ed at July 17, 2006 08:16 PM
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