Fast, Fun all action no thinking online FPS with great humour that all the games in the Orange Box seem to come with....
With TF2 the first thing you notice is the graphics which offer a really unique look to online FPS games. What's even more great though is all the animations and facial animations which are just really great and you've never seen this kind of depth before in a online FPS. This really comes into it's own when you taunting other players and your standing there releasing all 200 clips with heavy weapons guy and he shouts "get behind me doctor i am bullet proof" and really brings a sense of immersion. What else is great about them is how they run it all looks real fluid, specially the scout and how he moves in the air.
TF2 has around 9 classes and all of them are fantastic and amazingly balanced, only the Pyro felt underpowered but that's such a easy fix. My personal fave is the demoman, soldier or Heavy Weapons guy because you can just take down sooo many people with them classes. All the servers seem to be FF off and that seems to be for a balacing issues with the Spy Mainly which is a shame to have a class which forces 99% of servers to be this way. The reasons are because a spy can disguise themselves as any enemy and sneak behind them and kill them. With FF off you can shoot all your players to check if they're actually a Spy, if FF was on then it would give them a big advantage.
Theres only a handful of maps but it's worth mentioning that some of them have 4/5 different layouts which is really kool. All the maps are great and theres something for everyone however i only myself liked one of them and that was 2fort. I'm sure there will be many more maps in future from Valve and Mappers alike.
All the guns are great in the game and it's all class dependant but if you want to use different weapons then it's sooo easy to change class at anytime which is great. You'll have any weapon you can think of from a flamethrower to a minigun to turrets or granade launchers or my personal fave the Spies pistol.
Achievements are great too on Steam which give you more of a reason to play for longer if they're your kinda thing. I spent lots of time to unlock all of them during beta, it's only a shame that there wasn't any new ones on release and that goes for content too, it's the same as the beta which i didn't expect i thouht there would be more.
So TF2 is a fantastic online FPS and the only fault i could come up with for it is a BIG one, which is a shame. The only problem i have with the game is how easy and accessible it is. It's a fualt because i was already getting like 40 kills to 1 death and with other games like Counter Strike it took me 4 years to be really good at it. So it gets boring fast for me i have no real room to grow my skill in the game and really kills it.
TF2 is a fast and fun online FPS which would be great to be sold on it's own but even better value that it's with the Orange box, this will also be great because it'll have more people playing than it would selling on it's own.
Buy TF2 if you love class based online FPS games.