Team Fortress 2 brings the term, FUN, into a great multiplayer game, and shows players how to work as a team.
If you ever played the first Team Fortress, the first thing you would notice is that they kept all of the character classes from the original. But, to make gameplay fair, they had each class have their own special abilities and their own weakness. The game has 9 character classes to chose from, ranging from Offense characters, who are specialized to move to the enemy base and complete objectives, the Defense characters who mainly protect the objective from attacking enemys, and the Support class, who help in both offense and defence purposes.
The first thing you may notice about the gameplay is the huge change of weapons. In Team Fortress Classic, each class could throw grenades. Now, they replaced that for a special ability each class has. Here is a short description of each classes abilitys and weapons:
Scout: The scout is for rushing in and getting objectives quickly. The scout is fast, and can capture Control Points twice as fast. He carries a scatter gun, a pistol, and a Baseball bat. The scout is weak and can't survive long against enemy fire.
Pyro: The pyro has a flamethrower that can burn enemys for about 10 seconds with one burst. The pyro is good for clearing and weanening large groups of enemys. The pyro is great around corners. He carrys and axe and a shotgun. He is also good for spy checking.
Solder: The solder carrys a rocket. He has about 200 health and can take down large groups of solders. The solder carrys a rocket launcher, a shotgun and a shovel. The solder is slow, but very tough in battle
Demoman: The demoman has a grenade launcher and mine gun, which are good for taking out large groups of enemys and buildings (Engineers contraptions) The demoman runs at a fair pace and carrys a bottle to smack people with.
Heavy: The strongest, but slowest of all the classes, carrys a Mini Machinegun (why do they call it mini?) that only holds 200 bullets. The heavy is also good for taking out large groups of enemys and can take a beating. He also carrys a shotgun and has fists.
Engineer: The engi has a shotgun, pistol and wrench, though weak, carrys a powerful tool called the Sentry Gun. Using your wrench, you can upgrade your sentry to light machine gun, to heavy machine gun, to HM and rockets. The engi can also place teleporters and dispensers, which give ammo and health (and metal)
Medic: The medic has a srynge gun. Weak, but can do some damage to light health enemys. The medics main weapon is his medi gunich restores health, and give an extra amount of health to whoever your healing until you stop healing him. He also has a bone saw, with some extra kick to it.
Sniper: The sniper gives support from long range. With his Sniper RIfle, he can instantly kill anyone he sees, but only if he gets a headshot. the sniper comes with a machine gun for short range, and a machete.
Spy: My best class, the spy carrys a Revolver and his main weapon, a knife. With the knife, you can backstab enemys from behind for an instant kill. The spy can change to either an Ally or an enemy. Most enemys will be fooled, and sentrys wont shoot you. The spy also carrys a sapper, to disable the bulding, leading to destroying it.
On of the new additions in Team Fortress 2 is the Critical Hits. Once in awhile, you will come across a Critical Hit, shot. Changing it's colour to blu or red (depending on what team your on) and can deal twice as much damage, give you an opporatunity to flee or to kill.
The one big problem in this game is spawn camping and glitches. There are too many glitches (skybox in Dustbowl, blu respawn in 2fort) and can get in the way of fair gameplay. Some glitches are fixed, but most of them are not.
The next big thing is spawn camping. You can have a group of friends come on one team and place 10 sentrys at the other teams respawn and have one Pyro spycheck. This happened to me once, and I got very annoyed. I even made some people crash from this thing i learned (im not telling you)
Team Fortress 2 is an amazing multiplayer shooter, which is fun and should not be played for competition, like Call of Duty. Team Fortress allows you to show off funny taungts and just plain fool around. But if you want a game with good lighting and graphics, great sound, and a lot of replay value, Team Fortress 2 is for you, and when you win, it just makes you scream, "Can I have some more!!!" Have fun playing this well known and fun game. This game has a great meaning of teamwork and shows how multiplayer games can be fun and competetive at the same time.
(sorry if it's long)