#TEAM FORTRESS 2 XBOX 360 MOD#
#TEAM FORTRESS 2 XBOX 360 PC#

#TEAM FORTRESS 2 XBOX 360 PC#

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.

#TEAM FORTRESS 2 XBOX 360 MOD#

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.

Team fortress 2 xbox 360