Valve Announcements @ EA Press Conference (Team Fortress II)

[Miz]

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6153984.html?sid=6153984

TEAM FORTRESS 2. WHERE DID THIS COME FROM? Hey, they're still making it! It's got a totally exaggerated, crazy art style now. Looks a little like Spy vs. Spy or No One Lives Forever, kind of a '60s spy feel. It's going to be the included multiplayer mode in Episode 2! Class-based, etc. You know the drill. Great news for shooter fans. We all thought this game was dead years ago.

:eek:

[Miz]

Valve Software's golden boy, Gabe Newell, made a surprise appearance at today's Electronic Arts Summer Showcase at Redwood Shores. Perhaps the one revelation that hit harder than all the rest was that the long-awaited Team Fortress 2 will be included with Half-Life 2: Episode 2 later this year. A trailer of the game was shown at the convention. From what we saw we can tell you that most, if not all of the classic character classes you know and love are back. The game also sports a new art style that's drastically different from Counter-Strike: Source or Day of Defeat: Source. Rather than going for a gritty, realistic look, the characters have a more cartoonish, flat-shaded look, comparable to the way Pixar's The Incredibles looks.

and

Well, Team Fortress 2 is back and will be included with Episode Two, and it looks like nothing else on the market. Newell explained that Valve wanted to make this action game distinct, so the graphics (which use the Source engine) look like a Pixar animated movie. To reinforce this, the carious character classes in the game look like cartoon caricatures. These include the Medic with the huge needle or the Demoman with the sticks of explosives. Other classes include the Heavy, the Spy, the Scout, the Engineer, the Sniper, the Soldier, and the Pyro. Newell says that the goal with Team Fortress 2 is to create “the best looking and best-playing class-based multiplayer game.” Team Fortress 2 is certainly unique in appearance, so we’ll see how it plays.



Interesting. I hope they know what they're doing. Can't wait to see the screenshots either way.

[maDDin]

I hope the gameplay is not as slow as CS:S. And Valve pls try to fix that hitbox lagging...

[SK]

Wow :speechle:

[Vorm]

Wow :speechle:

Indeed!

V.

[Cessle]

the bit about them looking like pxers incredables is a little worrying :(

[Miz]

http://www.steampowered.com/download/Team_Fortress_2_Group_Photo.jpg

[elim]

Bloomin' hell - talk about a blast from the past!

Looks kooky. I like.

[Cessle]

dont like tbh looks like a kids cartoon army tbh :p, dont say i dont lik the current modles in tfc but they cud be better :)

[elim]

The HWG (Wahey the old abbreviations are being dug out again!) looks distinctly like Lawrence Dallaglio!

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/images/events/lawrence.jpg

[SK]

or a meaner version of...

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/news/images/0410/incredibles.jpg

That medic looks dodgy though.

[Bas]

The left three guys look the coolest.

[BLACK]

no offence to them but i think they have just killed the game before they have brought it out.

cartoon graphics + fps game = Bad mix

[SK]

TFC was Cartoony graphics too.

[ArchoNide]

This might get interesting for meh.

[Jon]

The medic looks like that sick doctor guy that was in the news for killing his Patients or something i dunno his name so i cant provide a pic :\

[Cessle]

yer i know the one you mean

[JinKe]

Episode one had nothing i wanted in it at all.

Episode two has team fortress classic 2 and portal! What a deal!
I think both games look extremely fun.

[SK]

I still need to buy E1.

[Jon]

E1 was fun i enjoyed it

[TeleProd]

The medic looks like that sick doctor guy that was in the news for killing his Patients or something i dunno his name so i cant provide a pic :\

The medic looks like my old physics teacher. :p

[Cessle]

hmm e2 might be more of a worth while purchase if it has tfc 2 init but i reckon they will still crank the price up :(

[maDDin]

Found a new screeny on hl2world.com

http://www.hlportal.de/images/images/original/14577.jpg


Source (http://www.hl2world.com/bbs/hi-vt45712.html)

[SK]

Nice. Really does look very catoon like.

[Miz]

New TF2 trailer;

http://www.body-count.org/files/team_fortress_2.wmv

[SK]

Nice. Still looking wicked. Didn't show the medic though? Was hoping to see some conc's after they showed the Solly's rocket jumping. Spy looks a bit different now.

Guessing this is a leak of the next trailer to be released on Steam?

[maDDin]

Wow TFC2 looks amazing with fast gameplay. Thought Source engine will slow it down. TFC2 with ragdoll physics that sounds like great fun! Wanna see some more portal trailers =)

[maDDin]

grml cant edit my post above >_<

*EDIT*

Searched a little bit. The TFC2 Trailer is a Video from Games Convention in Germany. Heres the Portal Trailer from Games Convention: Portal Trailer (right click, save target as) (http://club.idg.hu/gamestar/gc/movie/day1/portal.wmv)

aaaaand found some HL Ep2 Ingame Movies:

1st Part (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIGlcntslC4)
2nd Part (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-8VFVR5SM)
3rd Part (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC1STNBYFHU)
4th Part (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CV7n_z6JWY)
5th Part (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ach6tSA2big)

Bad Quality but better than nothin ;)

[Pro]v[etheus]

Bah, tried to view the new TFC2 trailer but my WMP doesn't want to play WMV files :(

Edit: Sorted....Looks really good, can't wait to try it :)

[maDDin]

Here the High Quality Versions of the TFC2 and the Portal Vids:

TFC2 (http://xboxyde.com/leech_2943_en.html) (59 MB)

Portal (http://xboxyde.com/leech_2946_en.html) (81 MB)

[SK]

Sigh (http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=34743) :(

[maDDin]

Sigh (http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=34743) :(

http://www.gamerforumz.com/showthread.php?t=3837 Thats the eurogamer interview with the news :p

[maDDin]

Valve released the GC Episode 2 Trailer 3 in HD quality. 2mins @ 108MB ;)

Here are some mirrors:

Mirror 1 @ gamershell.com (http://www.gamershell.com/download_15283.shtml)
Mirror 2 @ filefront.com (http://files.filefront.com/EpTwo+Trailer2wmv/;5464890;/fileinfo.html)
Steamlink (steam://install/930)

[maDDin]

Found some more Episode 2 High Res Movies 720p HDTV ;)

Part 1 (157MB)
Download @ Gamershell.com (http://www.gamershell.com/download_15383.shtml)
Download @ 3dgamers.com (http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/halflife2ep2/hl2-ep2_gameplay01_720p.wmv.html)
Download @ Worthdownloading.com (ttp://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=2002&id=8586)
Download @ Fileshack.com (http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/9395/Half-Life+2+Episode+2+Gameplay+Movie+#2)

Part 2 (91MB)
Download @ Gamershell.com (http://www.gamershell.com/download_15384.shtml)
Download @ 3dgamers.com (http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/halflife2ep2/hl2-ep2_gameplay02_720p.wmv.html)
Download @ Worthdownloading.com (http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=2002&id=8585)
Download @ Fileshack.com (http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/9394/Half-Life+2+Episode+2+Gameplay+Movie+#1)

Part 3 (124MB)
Download @ Steam (mymedia) (http://storefront.steampowered.com/v2/index.php?area=game&AppId=934)
Download @ 3dgamers.com (http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/halflife2ep2/hl2-ep2_gameplay03_720p.wmv.html)
Download @ Extreme-Players.de (http://www.extreme-players.de/download.php?id=10962)
Download @ Filefront.com (http://files.filefront.com/Half+Life+2+Episode+Two+Trailer+3/;5476050;;/fileinfo.html)
Download @ Gamershell.com (http://www.gamershell.com/download_15391.shtml)
Download @ Fileshack.com (http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/9398/Half-Life+2+Episode+2+Gameplay+Movie+#3)
Download @ Fileplanet.com (http://www.fileplanet.com/167373/160000/fileinfo/Half-Life-2:-Episode-Two---Gameplay-Movie-#3)
Download @ Worthdownloading.com (http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=2002&id=8592)

[maDDin]

Wohooooo. They released Part 4 in High Res as always ;)

Part 4 (145MB)
Download @ Filefront.com (http://files.filefront.com/Half+Life+2+Episode+Two+Gameplay+Video+4/;5477358;;/fileinfo.html)
Download @ Extreme-Players.de (http://www.extreme-players.de/download.php?id=10967)
Download @ 3dgamers.de (http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/halflife2ep2/hl2-ep2_gameplay04_720p.wmv.html)
Download @ Fileshack.com (http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/9402/Half-Life+2+Episode+2+Gameplay+Movie+#4)
Download @ Worthdownloading.com (http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=2002&id=8613)

Have fun fun fun =)

[maDDin]

Annnnnd last but not least Part5:

Part 5 (262MB)
Download @ Steam (My Media) (http://storefront.steampowered.com/v2/index.php?area=game&AppId=937#)
Download @ Gamershell.com (http://gamershell.com/download_15424.shtml)
Download @ 3DGamers.com (http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/halflife2ep2/hl2-ep2_gameplay05_720p.wmv.html)
Download @ Fileshack.com (http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/9422/Half-Life+2+Episode+2+Gameplay+Movie+#5)
Download @ Worthdownloading.com (http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=2002&id=8621)
Download @ Fileplanet.com (http://www.fileplanet.com/167442/download/Half-Life-2:-Episode-Two---Gameplay-Movie-#5)

[maDDin]

As i dont wanna create a new Portal Only Thread i gonna post it here. Found 3 new Portal screenys. Some sites reported that the main character is a female one.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/8995/15188zb9.th.jpg (http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?image=15188zb9.jpg)

http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5980/15189aj2.th.jpg (http://img370.imageshack.us/my.php?image=15189aj2.jpg)

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6813/15190ev0.th.jpg (http://img526.imageshack.us/my.php?image=15190ev0.jpg)

[ArchoNide]

Some sites reported that the main character is a female one.


Interesting. Now im wondering why Gordon isn't on anymore.. He's getting old?

[maDDin]

Interesting. Now im wondering why Gordon isn't on anymore.. He's getting old?

Portal is a new game with a new story. So no Gordon :P

[ArchoNide]

Portal is a new game with a new story. So no Gordon :P
Oh sorry. I thought that you meant HL2:EP2. :D