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For those too cheap to have purchased TF2, it is free to play this weekend with the new content:

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content said:

I've put some hours in into GTA, and it's pretty great. A really dense, cinematic experience...it's probably best because you can do everything at your own pace -- roam, ride the subway, hang out in a bar, do missions, whatever.

TFC2's tight. I played the first one a lot more, but the second one's solid and the art design's worth appreciating. What class(es) do you like, CJ? I roll Soldier, mostly.

Sniper

Basic Info
Class:	Sniper
Type:	Support
Health:	125
Speed:	100% (27% while zoomed; 1.3% while zoomed and crouched)

Basic Info

Class:	Spy
Type:	Support
Health:	125
Speed:	100%

and when I just want to go crazy I like:

Basic Info

Class:	Heavy
Type:	Defensive
Health:	300
Speed:	77% (27% while spun up)

Meet the Heavy

as for maps I like to play:

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just to see the newbies get crushed by the trains. :)

Check out the tip site .

Cj
(2637) comments
Posted: 4/30/2008 10:47:17 AM

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eighty-nine said:

this isn't available for the wii, right? i've played a couple of the older versions on PS2 and i liked jumping cops and stealing their car and running down pedestrians and hookers with the cops on my ass. good fun without having to risk doing real time =)

I don't think GTA will ever be avail. for the wii.

content (235) comments Posted: 4/30/2008 1:47:36 PM	Quote
	Yeah, it's just on 360 and PlayStation 3. Wii doesn't have a hard drive, for one, sooo. It'd make it hard to make a living, open world work on that kind of tech.

eighty-nine
(1145) comments
Posted: 4/30/2008 3:19:20 PM

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content said:

Yeah, it's just on 360 and PlayStation 3. Wii doesn't have a hard drive, for one, sooo. It'd make it hard to make a living, open world work on that kind of tech.

rats! i wanted to jump cops, steal their car and run down hookers on the sidewalk...

Fins Up (173) comments Posted: 4/30/2008 3:39:24 PM	Quote
	You can play this version on your pc: http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/

Cj
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Posted: 5/2/2008 9:02:38 AM

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A post about TF2:
05/01/2008

Team Fortress 2 : Bare Naked FPS Strategy

Written By Ed Borden

The guys at Valve are my heroes. Seriously, the Orange Box is a
work of art on so many levels, it starts to feel divinely inspired. Who
is this Gabe Newell, anyway?! After playing through the Half Life 2
sequels and Portal, the last piece of the package is Team Fortress 2,
which is like the parting gift that keeps on giving. Team Multiplayer
FPS being my favorite genre by far, I was of course excited to play it.

No one can dispute that TF2 is one of the most unique looking FPS
games out there. In fact, I think they forged the way for style to

exist in the genre, and proved that FPS games don't need to be
photorealistic to work. Valve's presentation at GDC this past February
titled "The Illustrative World of Team Fortress 2"
really shows that they had a calculated strategy in doing something so
different. It worked, and EA's already in the middle of cooking up their own cartoon Battlefield on the heels of TF2's success. It's great to see the industry continue to develop as an artform.

The style innovation doesn't stop at the visuals, though. The
unique classes in the game are so characterized that cinematics and
machinima are almost part of the experience. Valve itself produced
absolutely hilarious cinematic teasers to introduce the game and the
classes that are so compellingly fun that it's got hard to be hard to
resist buying the game just to get more. So don't watch them.

The way that they were able to carry the personality and feel of the
characters from those cinematics into the game itself is something I've
never seen before like this. FPS character models are supposed to be
cookie-cutter and boring in multiplayer!

As I said before, the goal of TF2 was obviously not perfect
lifelike graphics. Instead, the focus was put on making the game easy,
simple, and fun to play. Raw skill and reflexes don't make a big
difference here, because every gun basically sucks. That's right --
Nothing shoots straight, nothing is all that powerful, and everyone
moves slow as heck (except for the Scout). So, you're basically left
with bare naked team strategy, in which the lone wolf player is
completely worthless and more likely detrimental. If the team doesn't
work together, there is no chance of winning. Since the game is pretty
fun just running around and playing the different classes, I do see a
lot of people online just not paying attention and sucking. It's
definitely a tough byproduct of making a game that is so team-oriented
and then playing on public servers, but I guess that's what having an
awesome platform like Steam to find another game is for.

I love that Team Fortress 2 is saving me from an absolutely stale
genre devoid of any decent games at the moment. I've had my fill of
CS:Source and I was mortified by Frontlines, so basically what that
says is that there hasn't been a decent game since Battlefield 2.
That's like 4 years -- and that's depressing. Since TF2's been out
since last year, I am actually pretty late to getting into this game,
but if you haven't played it yet, you can get a taste for FREE this
weekend (May 2-4). Valve is running a teaser special, a la First
Slice). Give it a spin, and maybe I'll be there to wipe the floor with
your face!

Written By Ed Borden

[Ed Borden is a C-Level Exec in the boutique PC industry, and blogs

about PC gaming, enthusiast hardware, and business at

http://www.edbordenblog.com]

Cj (2637) comments Posted: 5/2/2008 9:03:22 AM	Edit Quote

Cj (2637) comments Posted: 5/2/2008 9:06:07 AM	Edit Quote
	Meet Heavy:

Cj (2637) comments Posted: 5/2/2008 9:06:38 AM	Edit Quote
	The next in the series of TF2 trailers. This time it's the Demoman.

Cj (2637) comments Posted: 5/2/2008 9:07:52 AM	Edit Quote
	Meet the Soldier, one of nine playable character classes in Team Fortress 2

Cj (2637) comments Posted: 5/2/2008 9:09:52 AM Edited: 5/2/2008 9:11:10 AM	Edit Quote
	This is a good one! :) Meet the Engineer, one of nine playable character classes in Team Fortress 2.

Cj comments (2644)
5/2/2008 9:19:00 AM

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