GameOn - FPS Week last day with Team Fortress 2

[Team Fortress 2 - Valve Corporation - PC/Xbox 360/PS3/Mac OS X]

Source: Youtube Channel RadioactiveCaffeine

Team Fortress 2 is more than just a game; It's a culture.  Team Fortress 2 has generated millions of fan-based materials all over the world such as art pieces, videos, fan-fiction, remix songs, comics, and parodies.  The game brought all gamers, creative minds, and hobbyists together to create things beyond the game and into our everyday lives (yes, I'm talking about Cosplay).

The truth is, the game has no story, no campaign, no background, just the game.  Team Fortress started out as a Quake Mod that was then brought in by Valve to distribute through Steam and then worked on a original game developed by Valve themselves as Team Fortress 2.  It's an Team-Based (or it should!) First-Person Shooter that has two sides fighting for the intelligence (Capture the Flag), an area (Capture Point), or escort a bomb to enemy base (Payload).  Each player is capable of choosing one of nine classes to play as that fulfills a sort of role in the team: offense, defense, and support.  Each of these classes have a personality and accent in their speech that gives them a distinctive personality.  The game is multiplayer-based and played online.

Pros:
-Fast action in a unique FPS experience that plays more like an action game than traditional FPS games
-Dynamics of the game changes each time you play with the different combinations of classes in a team
-Tons of ways to play the game that fits many different styles of play
-Very strong community within the game, there will be plenty of players to play with online
-Graphics are not too demanding and allows many players of any computer specs to play
-Lots of mods and special servers that allows changes in rules and game type
-Developers constantly update the game and maintenance the servers
-Many extra maps, modes, and features are added without charge
-Deals can go as low as $5 for the game and can provide several hundred hours of gameplay

Cons:
-You WILL die...A LOT, it is impossible not to (unless you hack, DON'T HACK!)
-It's very rare to play with people that understand the term "team"
-The game takes a ridiculous amount of time to load and connect to a server
-Hackers, mic spammers, glitchers and other riff-raff frequent in the servers
-Lack of players and Lag in a server makes for an unappealing experience (so d/c and find another)

If you're not a hardcore FPS player and want insane action, I highly recommend Team Fortress 2.  The game is phenomenal as entertainment and as a culture within itself.  The game often gets extra content and will not be charged for it unlike every other FPS game that has released recently.  I am up to about 124 hours of gameplay on Team Fortress 2 and I got it Christmas of 2009.  The only game I have played recently to have gotten that amount of hours is League of Legends with 128 hours.  For those of you who don't like unrealistic gunfights and whacky action, I suggest one of the 4 games mentioned earlier this week.  Other than that, go get Team Fortress 2 when it goes down in price this holiday (sale for this game frequently shows up).