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Half Life 2: Black Box gallery 1 of 2 -- Team Fortress 2 screenshots photo

Valve has released a motherload of media today for both games bundled in its upcoming Half-Life 2 episode 2: Black Box. While the adventures of Gordon are always great, the screenshots of most interest to me were from the bundled game Team Fortress 2; shown in the gallery below. True to the concept art and trailer revealed last year, this game looks like a cross between an FPS and a Roger Rabbit cartoon (or Pixar for you chilluns). Words cannot express what a refreshing approach this is, as I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I have a stack of realistic Army sims collecting dust on the shelf. I'm giddy, even.

The previews illustrate a glimpse of each character's special abilities as you pan through the screens, such as the spy's cloaking effect. The original Team Fortress consumed a greater part of my early adulthood and I look forward to surrendering another chunk of it shortly as soon as this hits. 


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iRaf 's Avatar
iRaf at 02/14/2007 11:13
I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS GAME! for some odd reason, it looks extremely fun!
dorock's Avatar
dorock at 02/14/2007 11:15
Awesome!

I can't wait to play TF2, been waiting forever it seems.

Those screenshots just bring tears of joy to my eyes..

Love the style to the characters, hopefully it'll be like TF but a million and half times better.

I want to play now!

*Goes off to find a mountain pass to freeze himself*
Paul Soth's Avatar
Paul Soth at 02/14/2007 11:20
These are all trailer stills, mind you.

No matter. The more press releases, the more I look forward to it.
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CannibalCalvin at 02/14/2007 11:21
Portal blows my mind.

God... I'm such a loser... the only thing I can think of when I look at it is the math involved...
iRaf 's Avatar
iRaf at 02/14/2007 11:25
http://www.destructoid.waits.for.tf2.com/
BluDesign's Avatar
BluDesign at 02/14/2007 11:31
Great... As if Halo, GOW, Crackdown, Guitar Hero, UT3, and HL2/Portal weren't sucking up all my time. Now this is going to come along.

I don't need to be tempted with guys wielding baseball bats going up against army soldiers. That's just mean to do that to me...

Now I have to go find someplace that sells catheters and get a job that lets me work/veg at home so I can just get through all these damn games.

Thanks Valve.
skAnarky's Avatar
skAnarky at 02/14/2007 11:34
My utter fear and respect for portals can soon be put into material form. Its exciting, and terrifying.
Niero's Avatar
Niero at 02/14/2007 11:39
These are all my brothers from another mutha
Brand-X's Avatar
Brand-X at 02/14/2007 11:57
@dvddesign

you forgot Bioshock
David Boring's Avatar
David Boring at 02/14/2007 12:00
tf2 looks great, it's about time for a fps with some out of the ordinary style (i know there was xiii, but who else).

it would be perfect, but very unlikley, if the multiplayer would work across platforms
Mabec's Avatar
Mabec at 02/14/2007 12:10
Not a single new frame, thats lame.
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robotplague at 02/14/2007 12:13
The only online game I ever got somewhat addicted to was the original TF back in highschool. I remember dreaming of a revamped version one day, this totally exceeds my expectations (from what I can tell just based off of screenshots at least). I'm glad Valve decided to put some style into it. It looks great, can't wait. Portal is also looking fantastic too, overall this is going to be a awesome little bundle.
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CaffeinePowered at 02/14/2007 12:13
As long as this game has just as much bunnyhopping, rocketjumping, scripting, and spamming as the original, Ill love it :)
Zero Iscariot's Avatar
Zero Iscariot at 02/14/2007 12:20
Day one purchase, but where did that killer depth of field effect on the portal gun go?
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Justice at 02/14/2007 12:36
Portals gonna be soooooo gooooood
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dasnicholas at 02/14/2007 12:38
just when I thought i could take a break from team FPS's....there goes a couple more months of my life, damn it...
Tiff's Avatar
Tiff at 02/14/2007 13:19
The slick cartoony style of this game makes me absolutely giddy ^^. I cannot wait!
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Mxyzptlk at 02/14/2007 13:44
I remember drooling over the TF2 shots back when it was using the HF1 engine. The new style looks great. And I'm totally hot for Portal, both for the gameplay AND the OMM connection.
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conglomerate at 02/14/2007 16:05
shiiiiit i need a pc that can play that and spore (whenever they come out)
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Milofo at 02/14/2007 17:23
Vavle why must you make me wait, WHY?!!!
DOOK's Avatar
DOOK at 02/14/2007 20:09
yea...these are screenshots we saw a month ago. Kudos to Destructoid for taking screenshots of a trailer.
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beezel at 02/14/2007 22:04
yes, yes, yes! been anticipating this for a looonnnngggg time (remember this was supposed to be released with source, and i think it was initially slated even before that). but why is it NO ONE seems to have played the original? and like caffeine said, i want all the old tricks. i spent wayyyy too much time timing the conc jump + friendly snipe on 2fort4 to clear it to have them pull it outta the new one!

but fuck, for solid team play, nothing comes close to tf. some try, and some force you, but none just work so damn well.
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Tim_Stoppard at 02/15/2007 15:42
By now I'm buying Episode 2 just to get TF2

Half-life will just be a nice bonus.
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