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Team Fortress 2 pc Game Reviews
Team Fortress 2
Critic Score
Metascore: 92 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.5 out of 10
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Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is the sequel to the game that put class-based, multiplayer team warfare on the map. TF2 delivers new gametypes, a signature art style powered by Valve’s next generation animation technology, persistent player statistics, and more. Unlike other "class-based" games that offer a variety of combat classes only, Team Fortress 2 packs a wild variety of classes which provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities, and lend themselves to a variety of player skills. Play as the flame-throwing Pyro, the room clearing Heavy, or the Spy, a master of disguises. Other classes include: Scout, Sniper, Medic, Engineer, Demoman, or Soldier. TF2 features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date – and the most exciting class-based action ever created. [Valve]

PUBLISHER: Valve Software
DEVELOPER: Valve Software
GENRE(S): First-Person Shooter
PLAYERS: 24
ESRB RATING: M (Mature)
RELEASE DATE: October 9, 2007

What The Critics Said

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100
AceGamez
The marriage of highly stylised retro-spy presentation, fresh, high octane action, deep and varied classes and the underlying twinkle of humour in its metaphorical eye make Team Fortress 2 far more than just your average fragfest. Long after the novelty of the graphics wears thin, we are left with a refined and accessible multiplayer game that simultaneously cultivates new players whilst retaining enough depth to accommodate even the hardiest of veterans.
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100
GameSpy
At this point, it's a leading contender for our Multiplayer Game of the Year, and whether you pick it up as part of the Orange Box package or on its own via the Steam digital download service, it's worth every penny.
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96
YouGamers
When the biggest flaw of the game is that it gets a bit repetitive after the first hundred or so hours of play, you know you have something special.
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96
Cheat Code Central
Team Fortress 2 is a must-buy. It's the most fun you'll have being shot at in a long time.
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94
PC Gamer UK
Rich, gorgeous and endlessly fun.
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93
PC Zone UK
The perfect integration of classes, the character and level design, the visuals, and the level of accessibility. [Dec 2007, p.64]
90
GamerNode
The action is fast-paced and furious, the game's presentation is hilarious and exciting and the gameplay is very easily approachable. Experiment with a few classes or stick with one, but do anything to get your hands on TF2. It'll be an online experience you won't forget.
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90
PALGN
Team Fortress 2 is, at heart, a gloriously simple game that's been created with style, panache and an undeniable love of gaming. It's the kind of game that you want to show to people who don't play games so that they understand and then either get involved or go away. There is life before Team Fortress 2, and there is life after. After is better.
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90
GameDaily
With a whacky, off-the-wall cartoon style, Team Fortress 2 provides excellent class based multiplayer action. TF2's classes are unique from each other and stand out to fulfill specific roles, but flexible enough to adapt to changing situations.
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90
1UP
I loved, loved TF2's cosmetic makeover. "Cartoon come to life" isn't compliment enough. Some cartoons are better animated, more distinctively stylized than others -- and, by analogy, this is among the best.
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90
EuroGamer
The game also does a lovely job of framing your relationship with other players and nurturing them.
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90
Play (Poland)
The ideal online shooter: average player can enter the fray and even hurt somebody, while pros will be grinding away milliseconds from the time to carry the suitcase on 2forts. And all thanks to the fact that among the nine classes there is exactly zero useless ones. The only serious drawback is the disgracefully low number of maps: only six. [Dec 2007]
89
IC-Games
It's one hell of a game. With its powerful artistic style and blazingly quick, yet accessible gameplay, it's enough to melt the icy cynicism imprisoning the hearts of even the most jaded among us. That being said, it's not the most complex shooter out there.
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85
The New York Times
Team Fortress 2 is a beautifully designed game with a visual style reminiscent of old Warner Brothers cartoons, and battles that combine strategy with frenetic action. The only real flaw is the documentation, which is far too skimpy to be of any help at all in learning the intricacies of each soldier class.
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85
GameSpot
Team Fortress 2 sets a brilliant stage for its signature brand of class-based multiplayer mayhem.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 1413 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Martijn V. gave it a10:
One of the best games I've played so far.

Davis S. gave it a10:
I would like to reply to this comment. "Game crashes all the time with looping sound. My experience is reverberated hundreds of times on message boards. Valve continues to produce buggy software year after year. Maybe they should win an award for that. Why game reviewers ignore these bugs is beyond me. Makes me think the reports are biased." 1. Get a better video card and more RAM. I have a GeForce 7300 with 2mb RAM and it runs fine, only crashed once because i alt-tabbed in and out too many times.

Joel gave it a10:
I've not seen a better fast-action multiplayer fps in a long while!

Christian S. gave it a10:
The best game EVER, great graphics effects, quality, lot of violence and blood , cold comedy, etc! Lots of challenging, and cools stats and achievement that you can earn!

D S gave it a5:
Not as cool as the first one. Sure the graphics are better, but there is not a lot of skill needed for many classes. I miss the grenades of TFC, the pyro flamethrower is almost useless because you have to be soo close to hit, and the damage it does is not much unless you corner them. They need to beef that up. Literally half the time it wont start, but goes to a white screen and just dies. The biggest disappointment is the invisibility of the spy. They might as well just kill you at random because that is what the spy ends up doing anyways. You are getting a good battle going, and out of no where you die. No chance of even seeing what killed you. Since they shift camera to who just killed you, if its a sniper it gives away their position. I don't play the sniper, but i imagine that has to irritate them. I miss the grappling hook too, as well as maps like 4fort4. After waiting for ten year in vaporland, I think they could have done better

Stevee C. gave it a10:
That's greatest thats I has seen in multiplayer gaming!

Mark B. gave it a10:
very nice, multiple choices....and Weapons! Looking forward to future updates.

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