Excellent free online multiplayer shooter from Valve

Team Fortress 2 is a free online competitive multiplayer first person shooter (FPS), defined by it’s great range of character classes, and excellently balanced gameplay.

With its cartoon style graphics, Team Fortress 2 looks good for a three year old game. These visuals have another great advantage over more realistic styles – you can see very clearly what’s going on, and other players don’t blend into scenery at a distance. Graphics are so clear that you can even easily distinguish character classes from a distance, helping you to decide how to act.

There are nine classes in Team Fortress 2. In Offense you have Scout, Soldier and Pyro. Defense has the Demoman, Heavy and Engineer classes, while the Support group features Medic, Sniper and the Spy. There is great variety between them all, and they are all great fun to learn. There are four types of Team Fortress 2 game – capture the flag, control point, payload and arenas. Each type gives you different objectives and feels, which adds to the huge amount of content this free to play title has on offer.

Gameplay is fast, the controls are tight and accurate, and there are a ton of customizations to play around with. The cartoon violence in Team Fortress 2 makes it a much lighter experience than more macho titles like Call of Duty, while it’s still really competitive and skill based.

Team Fortress 2 is extremely popular, and deservedly so. Now it’s free and cross platform, there’s no excuse not to get involved!

Version December 2, 2011: Fixed the “Checkout Unavailable” error preventing certain accounts from purchasing items Improved the framerate stuttering issues some clients were experiencing

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• Version December 2, 2011: Fixed the “Checkout Unavailable” error preventing certain accounts from purchasing items Improved the framerate stuttering issues some clients were experiencing