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Post Date: 01:05 04-06-2010
Rating: 8
Author: awesomedrako
Comment: Team Fortress 2 is an incredibly nice shooter. The fact that there are several classes to choose from, and it's all balanced is a very good achievement. However, it's a multiplayer team-based FPS, a game-type which you can find all over the place. Heck, Valve have a superior FPS than Team Fortress 2 in the form of Counterstrike: Source!
If you're looking for a multiplayer FPS where you shoot other people online, you're spoiled for choice these days. There's the incredibly popular MW2, which includes very addictive and satisfying gameplay (where you can tear through people with a few bullets).
There's AVA, which is a free FPS that has three classes. Sort of like TSamee's description of TF2, AVA has the Sniper which can snipe people from a mile away, but Pointmen (the 'scouts' of this game) can sneak up on them and gun them down quickly.
There's Bad Company 2, a game that enforces teamwork with rewards, and a game where tactics is key. Where you have to 'spot' enemies (which will mark them on everyone's screen) for your teammates, where you can blow sides in buildings to expose a sniper, where you can level buildings on top of campers.
I could go on, talking about Counterstrike, Halo, Gears of War, Killzone, Crossfire. Any one of these multiplayer FPSs that had decreased the productivities of many, many peoples' lives. But I don't have the time.
TF2 doesn't seem to offer anything to shove it above the competition it has these days, and 'addictive gameplay' isn't good enough, because most of the good FPSs offer that anyway. I don't see why I should pay money for an FPS when there's so many other choices out there. Borderlands, at least, offers 'addictive gameplay', but with co-op, exploration and looting, distinguishing it from the competition.
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