Team Fortress 2

After finally connecting my computer to the internet for the first time this weekend, I was able to install the incredibly hyped “Orange Box” by Valve Software. The compilation of games includes Half-Life 2, Episode and Episode 2. It also includes Team Fortress 2, the sequel to the popular online first person shooter, Team Fortress Classic. And the last game, a new Valve game, Portal. I hope to review Portal after I beat the game. This was really my first, serious, online fps I’ve ever played…so naturally, I wasn’t that good at it. Unfortunately, when your not good at an online game, and you come late into the game, you eventually get turned off. I stuck with it for some time and found a couple of servers for new players. This helped me a lot, and now I can usually get few kills during a life. Anyways, it is a big improvement to the old version, Team Fortress Classic, which was pretty bad. I had a great time getting into it, I started the game, joined a server, and was playing in less than 2 minutes. Well, I hope I get better as time goes by, because so far this is my favorite of the online fps I’ve played recently. My user name on Steam is Prestine if anyone wants to join me and play a quick round.

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Call of Duty 2

I just downloaded Steam for the first time because I bought the Orange Box. After playing Team Fortress religiously for about two weeks, I decided to buy the game Call of Duty 2 to prepare myself for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. So far I love it. It’s not like Halo where you can get lost in a level. In COD 2, it’s very specific and you don’t get lost much. Pretty much the entire game you are mowing down opponents with your machine gun. That is probably one of the downsides of this game, there is not much strategic game play. I haven’t finished the game, I think I’m about halfway through it, but so far it is appealing to me. I suggest you either download it off Steam for $19.99 or buy it off Amazon.

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