What’s Team Fortress Classic I hear you cry? Here’s a little history of the game, going all the way back to its grass roots. Way back in the dizzy heights of 1998, a legend of a game was brewing. I myself was at the tender age of 12 and had only experienced such games as Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo and Dick Dangerous on my uncle’s Atari ST. Suddenly, a game called “Half-Life” was released. For me, I had seen nothing like this before. A game that had a story so in-depth, I could hardly be dragged away from my PC. Soon after, Team Fortress Classic was released. Originally, the game was designed as a mod for Quake which was later developed into a mod for Half-Life and eventually became a stand-alone game which could be played through Steam. Playing for an hour a night on my 56K modem, I had the most enjoyment out of a computer game, even to this date. The game lasted a few years but sadly, with a lot of other games at the time, it was shadowed but the ever dominant Counter Strike.

Way back in 1999, Team Fortress 2 was announced to be in development, with a community longing for something to try and take an inch of the spotlight away from Counter Strike. Ironically enough, the game was in development for 8/9 years (Much to the joy of people like me ¬_¬) and strangely enough, doesn’t size up to the heavy-weight contenders such as Quake Wars or the imminent release of CoD4 or does it?

Summary

  1. “You can’t be serious!” (An Introduction)
  2. Who and what? (A brief history)
  3. TF2, how does it work? (If you’ve played it, you don’t need to read this)
  4. Erm, so where’s your argument exactly? (Finally!)