Meh.. What can I say?
Firstly its really good. Like really really good. Its was the first game I sunk 1000 hrs into, and I would happily sink another 1000 into it. Its also made by Valve, makers of Portal and Half-Life.
Team Fortress 2 sees (typically) 16 players fighting another 16 players, to achieve an objective that usually involves either pushing a cart, capturing points or stealing a briefcase. You pick from nine classes.. yada yada yada, you get the gist.
The gameplay is fast, like stupid levels, you blink and in some cases you can miss entire fights, mainly due to some Soldier or Demoman clearing out the entirety of your team. Learning to be bad at the game is easy, I mean sure you can hold your own against new players, but if you come up against anyone with a) half a brain cell or b) some experience playing the game, you will get fucked. This actually makes the learning curve rather steep, unless you can find someone who is willing to help you get better, Karate Kid Style.
The graphics are nice, if somewhat cartoony, but that honestly is refreshing, and it thankfully weeds out all the COD fanboys who prefer the looks over the actual handling of the game. The art style is unique and distinctive, meaning it isn't one of many mass produced FPS clones. EVERY.SINGLE.FUCKING.YEAR.
Weapon variation between classes make an nice change, and with 3 of the classes having a sub class ( Demo-Knight, Huntsman Sniper and Mini-Sentry Engineer ) easily accessed by equipping certain weapons that are either uncrated, found, crafted or bought with real cash (Do the last one and I will call you a scrub ). Speaking of buying weapons the business model is fair, as you can only buy Keys to uncrate items, Cosmetics to make yourself look pretty fly for a white guy (unless your Demo) or Weapons as mentioned above.
One of the downsides of this game is the economy. The economy makes Greece in its current state look stable. It works on metal, gained through crafting class specific weapons together. Going into keys, Going into Buds. Im not going to explain it, its too hard, just have a link to a reliable site for this stuff ( https://backpack.tf/ )
The game mechanics are great too, especially the ability to Rocket Jump.
( imma leave this here so you get the idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uphATRHKIoo )
This makes playing the class, Soldier particularly rewarding as if you can do it well in most cases you can beat the opposing team harder than Chris Brown. Each Class comes with their own drawbacks and bonuses, which makes having a varied team advisable as having 10 snipers may seem like a great idea, but in short one guy will go spy and all you will have is 10 dead snipers and a lot of regret.
Thankfully I cant really notice the motion blur, which means its there. BUT ITS TASTEFULLY DONE. (Take note Warframe). Meaning I don't have to vomit every 30 seconds from the fucking shitstorm of colour that violates my screen in other games (Im still looking at you Warframe).
In conclusion, Team Fortress 2 is a great FPS game and it rightly holds the top spot ( or second spot) on Steams most popular Free to Play leaderboard. Its great to play alone or with friends and can really just be used for taking your anger out on scrubs. Yes sometimes it can get repetitive, with the same format for some maps, with just a variation on a certain theme, but I mean all games can if you play them enough, so that critism looses most of its weight. But yeah, its free and its fun, so just get it (link below)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/440/
Level : 9/10
Dan.
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