Valve announces Team Fortress 2

snoopers
Saturday, July 15, 2006 | 1:40 AM
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Xbox 360 PS3

Valve just announced that PS3 and 360 ports of Half-Life 2 are to be released next-year, in a big pack containing the game as well as the two "Episodes", Portal (a solo game featuring experimental gameplay) and... Team Fortress 2. Yep, THE Team Fortress 2. With its shaders-filled cartoony look, the game seems pretty far from what it used to be when it was still using the Quake Engine... And I must say I'm totally seduced. Are you ?

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Splicer261

Commented on 2006-07-15 14:10:17

i agree

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Drunkenshaolin

Commented on 2006-07-15 14:14:25

going to be intresting to see game this turns out....going by the pic, its got a nice look about it...thanks for the pic!!

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JonM

Commented on 2006-07-15 14:40:09

I'm interested in the episodes. I played hl2 on xbox, but it will be interesting to see what the game was ment to look like. Pretty good pack.

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Sheps

Commented on 2006-07-15 14:41:39

:| What have they done to my beloved TF2!!!!!!?!?!

I certainly wasnt expecting this, from the screenshots i saw yonks ago of the PC version it was military fatigues n the lot.

I pray it plays like the original, one of the best multiplayers EVAR

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j0k3r

Commented on 2006-07-15 14:50:29

k00l looks good! But im sure I read TF2 wont be on the 360, PS3 :(
Anyone got links to were the announcment was made or with more information?

I so wanna play this on 360! Dont know if my PC will be upto it LOL

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Sheps

Commented on 2006-07-15 15:12:15

From Steam News

"Bellevue, WA, July 14, 2006 - Valve®, developer of the blockbuster series Half-Life® and Counter-StrikeTM, unveiled Team Fortress® 2 and Portal, two new games to be included in its next release, Half-Life® 2: Episode Two. In addition, the studio announced its plans to deliver these products, plus enhanced versions of Half-Life 2 and Episode One, in one tremendous package for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3."

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VibratingDonkey

Commented on 2006-07-15 15:49:06

The Source engine once again surprises me. Too bad it runs a bit crap on my PC for whatever reason.

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Ezekiel_Xz

Commented on 2006-07-15 16:11:43

yeh i still get the stutter bug on my pc and some really weird frame rate drops for no reason.

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110100100

Commented on 2006-07-15 19:41:32

that'd be sweet to see TF2 on live,... then some of these people might actually learn what is like to have to work with a team or fail.

just waiting for a 360 version of Tribes that plays like the first one over live.

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XBox360Man77

Commented on 2006-07-15 21:19:46

The guy with gas mask looks awesome. I cant wait for this and to finally play Half-Life 2 in all of it's glory

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Joergen

Commented on 2006-07-15 22:55:52

Finally Valve does what I wanted them to do with HL2 and consoles.. but sadly HL2 wouldhave made a KILLER 360 launch title.. now they're making it a killer PS3 launch title?

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jekyl200

Commented on 2006-07-16 00:34:13

to confirm, this game will come to 360 and ps3, read the valve statement :

http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id...

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BaronVonSnakPak

Commented on 2006-07-16 02:33:40

looks like evil genius, which has my favorite art style of all time in a videogame. couple that with TF gameplay...sold.

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KillaCrow

Commented on 2006-07-16 03:18:01

This is hopefully just a start of VALVE support for the 360.

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Inflatable

Commented on 2006-07-16 05:32:40

TF2 looks awesome with this new cartoony-look imho.. I can't wait to play it.. I couldn't wait for Episode 2 already, but this makes the waiting even harder.. EP2 and TF2 in 1 package for only 20 bucks, what a steal..

The Xbox 360 (and PS3) version is a even bigger steal as it also includes the maingame Half-Life 2 and Episode 1.. Add that to Episode 2 and TF2, and you get bassicly 4 games for the price of 1..

And then I didn't even mention Valve's new Portal game, which is also included, and should be fun aswell..

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Tinks

Commented on 2006-07-16 05:52:08

Is anyone else disturbed by the way they are standing next to plugs and are obviously on a kitchen floor scaled down?
Are they going in the direction of a childrens game? Or is the background just a joke?

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Bez

Commented on 2006-07-16 11:11:17 In reply to PlumbDrumb

Posted by PlumbDrumb

It's a class based multiplayer FPS.
Really fun.

sweet! cartoonish design looks good to me

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Janman

Commented on 2006-07-17 12:42:10

I just hope that there is no link between Xbox Hλlf-Life 2 suddenly not being compatible in 60 Hz mode in Xbox 360 because of new compatibility update and the fact that the game is coming soon to the Xbox 360...

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unfettered

Commented on 2006-07-17 13:35:52

It's not the "art style" that impresses me so much about that screenshot, it's the fact that while in gameplay, you can actually look at a character or another team and know what classes they are composed of. This is a fantastic strategy dicission over the original TF, where you only could really tell because of a small armband texture. This is going to be able to add so much more strategy to the game. You can look at another team and know what they are composed of . . . know their strengths and weaknesses based on character class . . . and they will know yours. It's kinda like playing poker with half your cards on your forehead. It will really force teams to play as teams, as any team who cannot play as a cohesive unit, will get totally pwned by teams who do. The amount of potential strategy that it opens up will certainly be interesting. I'm just chomping at the bit to see map layouts now. This is going to be so kickass! I may have to buy this for PC if the X360 version does not release on the same day as the PC version.

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Brandino

Commented on 2006-07-17 20:37:50

The graphics remind me of that Bad Day in L.A game ... I can't wait to play this!

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RC_Master

Commented on 2006-07-17 21:04:36

Sweet.

The demo i played of HL2 on the PC never really inspired me to buy the game. But if i can get the game plus all this extra content it might be worth the buy!

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miketuck3r

Commented on 2006-07-18 00:18:11

its coming back to me now the spies were good fun to play as

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