If you haven’t gotten TF2 yet, you should buy it. I said before it wasn’t worth it since I wasn’t going to play the other Orange Box games, but I was wrong. This is one of the best games I have ever played.
The gameplay is great, everything is extremely balanced. It could use some tweaks, but right now no one class dominates, and no class is absolutely useless. Overall the game is very smooth, I have no idea what FPS I’m getting, haven’t checked yet, but I’ve heard people say they get around 30FPS and it is still smooth and playable.
The only tweaks I would do is the movement speed and respawn timers. Upping every classes speed a little bit would be great. Doesn’t need a lot, just a little boost. The respawn timers should be reduced a little bit, right now they are about 20 seconds, I think 15 seconds would be great. There are a lot of old TFC players who say no respawn at all, but this isn’t TFC. It’s funny how many people say they want everything to be like TFC or QWTF because they were perfect games, yet they have been basically dead games for at least the last 3 or 4 years.
The graphics are another thing that is amazing about the game. It looks great inscreenshots, but seeing it ingame is even better. The death cam is great, and sometimes you get some hilarious screenshots from it. It is nice to see who fragged you, and where they were. The maps all look good, nice and bright and usually pretty easy to find your way around. Some maps can get a little confusing, but once you get going it’s easy to find your way to the flag or cap point.
Another nice thing is the scoreboard and the stats that are in the game. Instead of having kills and deaths, you only see how many points you have on the main part of the scoreboard. On the bottom you can see your kills, deaths, assists, backstabs, sentry kills, etc. The developers have said they want everything in the game to be positive, and the stats reflect that. When you are killed, a different stat will pop up stating that you beat or almost beat your record for staying alive, or most points, or most ubercharges, etc. Even when you get dominated by a player, it doesn’t say how many times that person has killed you, but when you next frag the player that was dominating you, it tells you you got revenge on that player.
No other game has been this amazing the first time I played it, not even CS, which I’ve played for 8 years. It is more balanced and more fun than anything I’ve played. The amount of teamwork is great as well. Most players will generally change classes to help your team out. If the other team changes to all snipers and spys, after a little bit your team will switch to scouts and pyros to counter them. When the other team changes classes to counter you, it keeps changing as teams try to get the advantage.
Most of the classes are a blast to play too. Nothing beats getting Ubercharged as a heavy and walking into a base and mowing down everyone and everything in site. Except doing the same thing as a Pyro and setting the entire enemy team on fire and getting to watch them running around burning. Or maybe being a spy and running around causing havoc and stabbing people in the back. You get the point. I even have a ton of fun playing as a medic, just running behind players charging them so we can become invulnerable.
My favorite classes so far would be Sniper, Medic, Soldier, Pyro, Demo, Scout, Heavy, Engineer, Spy. It all depends on the situation though. If only a few people are playing, Scouts can dominate, while it’s harder to be a Sniper.
Didn’t think I was going to write that much, but oh well. Like I said, buy it. It blows any other game out of the water.