Team Fortress 2 mini-review
If you want to play it tomorrow, better start today. Downloading the 7 GB installer took about three hours for me, and I've got the fastest cable Internet connection that you can get in San Mateo.
Once you get it installed, it's a fun game. There are 9 character classes to choose from, none of which seem to be dominant. On the servers I played on, there was a pretty good mix of the different classes on each team. Nobody's figured out how to abuse one particular class to dominate everything else.
Although the game is still in beta, it loses major points for stability. I got about 90 minutes of gameplay in, and in that time, my computer locked up three times. Completely frozen; had to hit the reset switch. Sure, it could be drivers (latest Nvidia) or hardware (no crashes in months other than TF2), but it really hurts the gaming experience when the game just randomly crashes. I'm hoping that the release version is stable enough to play for a few hours without rebooting.
Overall, it's a game to look at when it's released, but the beta is just not stable enough.
Once you get it installed, it's a fun game. There are 9 character classes to choose from, none of which seem to be dominant. On the servers I played on, there was a pretty good mix of the different classes on each team. Nobody's figured out how to abuse one particular class to dominate everything else.
Although the game is still in beta, it loses major points for stability. I got about 90 minutes of gameplay in, and in that time, my computer locked up three times. Completely frozen; had to hit the reset switch. Sure, it could be drivers (latest Nvidia) or hardware (no crashes in months other than TF2), but it really hurts the gaming experience when the game just randomly crashes. I'm hoping that the release version is stable enough to play for a few hours without rebooting.
Overall, it's a game to look at when it's released, but the beta is just not stable enough.