Tell you what -- I'm not very good at first-person shooters. And since Team Fortress 2 has been out for years, the learning curve is way out of my reach; but I kind of dig on the brassy, big band soundtrack. What to do?
Play Dylan Loney's Great Class Dash, a 2.5D sidescrolling platformer based on TF2's nine classes, natch. Today marks the game's first public release, and a cursory glance at the trailer reveals a Canabalt-inspired romp through Canada, Egypt, a swamp, and a volcano. Everything -- the animation, the character models, the environments -- looks really crisp, although I do wish the camera was a little more zoomed in on the action. Though I suppose that'd make it harder to see upcoming environmental hazards and switch classes (on the fly!) accordingly.
There don't seem to be any enemies, but each class has a special ability that will help you get through the game: The Scout can double jump over large gaps; the Heavy can break barriers; the Pyro's flame-retardant suit keeps him safe from fire and steam; and so on and so forth.
Loney originally developed The Great Class Dash for a level design contest, but he got enough positive feedback to keep the project going. You can download it here.
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@dip -- how could Kotaku post about the game being released months ago when it was released *today*? I know Nick Denton had money, but I didn't know he had a time machine.
This was pretty fun, but if you get stuck in the ground, that's it. You have to restart the mod.
It made me think though how cool a mod that presented solo missions for each class would be. Something like TF2's answer to Counterstrike: Condition Zero.
Looks like a funny idea, but not that great in practice. Most of the time seems to be spent as the Scout (which makes sense), but at that point, it's essentially just a standard platformer.
It's very fun and you have to think really fast to change classes. Fun, it needs A LOT more of work to be fantastic, but, for being a free mod, it's really good.
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12:20 PM on 03.19.2010
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Seriously though, this is pretty neat. The comparison has already been made a thousand times but this totally reminds me of Trine.
Anyway, this does look neat. :O
DOWNLOADING......
@dip
Kotaku posted it's existence, not it's completion.
It made me think though how cool a mod that presented solo missions for each class would be. Something like TF2's answer to Counterstrike: Condition Zero.