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Miz
15th July 2006, 00:20
From the Steam News page.


Includes Team Fortress 2 and Portal, Heading To PC and Next Gen Console

Bellevue, WA, July 14, 2006 - Valve®, developer of the blockbuster series Half-Life® and Counter-StrikeTM, unveiled Team Fortress® 2 and Portal, two new games to be included in its next release, Half-Life® 2: Episode Two. In addition, the studio announced its plans to deliver these products, plus enhanced versions of Half-Life 2 and Episode One, in one tremendous package for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

"By evolving our development process to an episodic approach, we're able to reduce risk from things such as schedule and funding and invest more in new types of gameplay," said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. "This allows us to produce innovative titles such as Portal and Team Fortress 2 and deliver them in a timely fashion to customers along with Episode Two."

Episode Two advances the 16-million unit selling franchise, as Valve's trilogy of episodic single player releases continues the award-winning story of Half-Life 2. Armed with new weaponry and vehicles, Dr. Gordon Freeman must race through a countryside riddled with an increasingly fierce Combine threat.

http://www.steampowered.com/download/Team_Fortress_2_Group_Photo_small.jpg

Team Fortress 2, an all-new version of the title that spawned team based multiplayer action games, features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date. Players choose from a range of unique character classes such as medic, spy, sniper, or engineer and must work together to complete a variety of tactical objectives.

Portal is a new type of single player game that changes how players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment in a manner similar to how the Gravity Gun changed our approach to how an object may be leveraged in any given situation.

Team Fortress 2 and Portal will be included with all retail and Steam versions of Episode Two for the PC. In addition, these products plus Half-Life 2 and Episode One will be available in one tremendous offering for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. New videos from Episode Two, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 will be released next week.

http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=691

TeleProd
15th July 2006, 08:24
New videos from Episode Two, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 will be released next week.

Woot woot!

SK
15th July 2006, 16:27
TF2 about time!

I like the fact they are keeping the toony graphics. It's what made TFC great :)

tfc_newmodels 0 ftw :)

Miz
15th July 2006, 17:20
Portal sounds interesting.

Miz
19th July 2006, 13:08
Trailer for Portal;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA2ztkOUI-o&search=portals%20trailer

It's on the Steam media page too.

Bas
19th July 2006, 18:07
Interesting.

SK
19th July 2006, 18:45
WOW. Seriously that looks amazing. Finally a decent 3D puzzle game? Decent puzzle games on existed on the SNES and older era computers. The Video itself is really well done. I love the example scenarios with the woman talking. Music rules :p

Episode 2 looks to be a great release with this and TF2 on its shoulders.

Jon
19th July 2006, 21:20
Portal looks amazing. Trailer now avaliable to download off of steam.

speculation that its set in the hl2 universe and adrian shepard is the playable character. tho thats fomr the steam fourms so its probally nothing.

someone throught it from taking the first letter from the name of the gun ASHPD or something.

Miz
19th July 2006, 22:20
Team Fortress 2 trailer;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaF638MBSAE

SK
19th July 2006, 22:48
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=34184

The high res version from Steam, even though its not on steam yet. Filefront was the fastest for me

Miz
19th July 2006, 22:59
The high res one -was- hosted on the Valve website but was taken down shortly after it leaked. It wasn't due for release until tomorrow.

SK
19th July 2006, 23:21
Yeah 404 when i first read about it. I guess someone just guessed the URL to it. Not hard to work out when you look at the other media file locations/names.

elim
19th July 2006, 23:28
Team Fortress 2 trailer;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaF638MBSAE

I'm geniunely excited about this - they've pitched it perfectly.

It's going to ooze class!

SK
20th July 2006, 07:26
It's on the Steam website now. Their link says "view the first Team Fortress 2 trailer". Think we can expect another soon then?

maDDin
20th July 2006, 07:37
Portal looks uber awsome. The things ur able to do with these portals. /me remembers garrys mod. Think i gonna buy episode 2. :)

TFC2 Trailer is not that good. They only show the classes :/

Vorm
20th July 2006, 12:31
The remade 2Forts looks .... funky!

SK
20th July 2006, 12:52
Eagle Eye. I couldn't really see how you noticed it. Only time is when you see the Sniper taking a shot.

SK
20th July 2006, 13:10
Found this on the FF forums.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d25/tieInterceptor/Team_Fortress_Incredibles.jpg

Vorm
20th July 2006, 13:38
thats good!

Vorm
20th July 2006, 13:57
FF's Hunted!

Get it while it's hot!



http://www.fortress-forever.com/~trepids/images/ff_leakage-es_dueno-04.jpg

Jon
21st July 2006, 07:52
whats FF? and what is that a screenie from :S

SK
21st July 2006, 08:06
http://www.fortress-forever.com/

Vorm
21st July 2006, 11:29
Goes into Beta testing first week of August.

Good news indeed!

Cessle
21st July 2006, 17:06
but ff and steams tfc2 in compertition with each other?

SK
21st July 2006, 17:33
The beta is for a select group though no?

The FF guys have some work to do now. It's been in development for a long time now. Personally I would like to think its going be good since the guys that made it were all hardcore European TFC players.

TF2 should be good cause its made by the same people that made TFC. I am going to put my money on TF2 thats going to be the favoured mod of the two.

Miz
21st July 2006, 22:18
Episode 2 extended trailer;

High-Res:
http://www.fileplanet.com/165529/160000/fileinfo/Half-Life-2:-Episode-Two-Extended-Trailer
http://files.filefront.com/Half+Life+2+Episode+2+Extended+Trailer/;5285899;;/fileinfo.html

Low-Res Streaming:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbllfek1buM
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=11952&type=wmv

Jon
23rd July 2006, 10:05
whats new in it tbh?

Vorm
23rd July 2006, 19:17
well if you can't tell, theres point you knowing

TeleProd
25th July 2006, 15:54
Portal looks like lots of fun.

Vorm
25th July 2006, 17:25
well if you can't tell, theres point you knowing

No, goddam it, "No" point!

God damn it.

Bas
25th July 2006, 19:20
well if you can't tell, theres point you knowing
Alright, now you have to tell.

Vorm
26th July 2006, 09:36
Won't !!!

Just watch both videos ftw!