Beginning with “Meet the Heavy” in May 2007, the studio released slickly produced, and uniformly hilarious, promos for each of the game’s nine classes, a move that provided definition and personality to what otherwise could have been a by-the-numbers class-based shooter. It quickly became clear that Valve had every intention of doing Team Fortress 2 up right. Breathe that digression in it’s good for you.)
(And before we move on, let’s just pause, take a moment and marvel at the absurd, likely never-to-be-topped value of The Orange Box. Better yet, the game will come as a pack-in to the indomitable Orange Box, which also includes Half-Life 2, its two expansions, and the juggernaut-in-waiting, Portal. Valve’s been toying with the emotions of Half-Life 2 fans for some time, and, perhaps as a makegood, the company signals a return of its cult-favorite Quake mod in Team Fortress 2.
