Team Fortress 2 PC review

This game is probably one of the multiplayer games that I can truly say that I've had a HUGE amount of fun playing. I mean, lighting fat guys carrying huge machine guns on fire with flame-throwers, building large defensive turrets that completely blow the opposition into pieces (Literally), and stabbing quickly jumping Scouts in the back with a knife can't be more fun. The different classes offer tons of fun, sneaking around as a spy, camping in a dark corner as a sniper, and blowing crap up as the demoman! 


    Moving on to the first topic I'm going to cover, which is gameplay. As described above, the gameplay is full of fun, and excitement. The maps that you can play in this game are well rounded in my perspective, the classes perfectly matched, and the hats you unlock for your characters are just plain old awesome! The maps are very fun to play, have a great setup, and can be played many times over again without getting tired of. Set in the desert, grassland, urban environments, the maps aren't all the same. It's not like you're going to play through the game only encountering snow or desert battlegrounds. The character classes, nine of them in total, are evenly matched so you aren't going to have one class that can completely beat all others. Though a lot of people like the power they can get from playing that "all powerful" class, it's not a good thing. For if it would be the case that Team Fortress 2 had that "all powerful" class, then all it's other classes would be useless. This would reduce the playability of this game drastically, since there would be absolutely no point in using the other eight classes. Luckily this isn't the question. TF2 has perfect classes that match each other.

    Next up is the graphics. Over all, they are great. To me, they match video games that are out now, though TF2's graphics are all cartoony. Blood is great, models are awesome, and the maps are equally awesome. The cartoony art style fits TF2's mood down to the tiny molecule, and supplements the game by making it so obscenely fun to play. The FPS heads up display also fits the game and adds another (yes, yes, there is A LOT of cartoony art in this game. The whole game is a cartoon!) cartoony addition to the game by making your bullet count appear in bubbly, lopsided text. (I'm not going to describe the whole HUD.) The bullets that streak across the map are just yellow lines, and the muzzle flash is a yellow cone. Yet these graphics are soooo appealing. A small touch I have found that I like tremendously is the sun glare off of the weapons and the gloves of some characters. The final verdict on the graphics of TF2 is that though they are completely cartoony, they match they game and give a special, fun feeling to it.

   The last topic I'm going to cover is sound (Give me a bit of credit, I usually don't). The burst from a gun, turret, or rocket launcher, doesn't sound the BEST it sounds ok. But the sound in this game is the best because of one defining factor that "only multiplayer" games hardly ever use, letting the character have a personality. The voice acting (Well... more like small sentences) is top notch. The spy, in his formidable accent, says that he surely doesn't want to get blood on HIS suit. The heavy gunner does more laughing than talking, but it still gives him a personality. The pyro is probably one of the best voice characters in the game. I haven't yet heard of a multiplayer game (Please inform me if there is one or two) that thought of MUFFLING a voice if it inside a gasmask! The scout acts like an ignorant little bugger as he taunts his opponents. This list could go on for all nine characters, for the voice/sound for each of them is great, and there are multiple examples.

   Team Fortress 2 would be one of the games that I will never get tired of. The gameplay is top notch, graphics are entertaining, and funny, and the sound is intriguing. Experimenting with the different classes is amazingly fun, and the aspect that makes any multiplayer class based game worthless if it's not included, is perfectly even classes. Luckily TF2 has this feature. I would put this one your wishlist, for it's one of the best multiplayer games out there.


  Overall Score: 9.5