

If nothing else, they are HIGHLY entertaining, explain the characters a bit, and will let you see the game in a way.Īlso: don’t buy TF2 on its own (if it even comes that way). They should give you an idea of what you would be getting into. Go to youtube and look for the DemoMan trailer, Sniper trailer, Soldier trailer, Heavy trailer (worst of the trailers, but also one of the first). Other suggestion: watch the TF2 “trailers”. Since you can talk to other live, there could be cursing-you never know. But there is also strategy and teamwork involved. So if you don’t want to spend your time trying to kill someone else, it’s probably not for you. Having said that, the violence is pretty cartoonish. Even if you are playing the version that is basically capture the flag, it’s like capture the flag with guns and bombs and death and blood. There is certainly strategy involved, but it’s a “how can I kill them and win” type of strategy. Based on the character you play, you have to learn to kill in a certain way based on the weapons available to that character.īut basically, the game is all kill, kill, kill and it leaves corpses scattered about as you kill and get killed. She said: "The UK will see the launch of both the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS, and both of these handheld consoles have the capacity to revolutionise the range of people who play games and the nature of the games they play.There is some blood and guts. Ms Robertson said 2005 promised to be as exciting as the last 12 months. Halo 2 has proved a hit for Microsoft's Xbox with, on average, more than 300,000 people a day battling each other online.

The player experiences the world through the eyes of Gordon Freeman, the bespectacled scientist who starred in the original 1998 Half-Life.įreeman is transported to the sinister City 17, where he battles an oppressive police state and joins a resistance movement. The game impressed critics with its detailed graphics and animation, real-word physics system and strong storyline.

Half-Life 2, developed by Valve software, was one of the most anticipated video games of all time. Halo 2 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas have been enormous sellers in the last month, selling more than eight million copies world-wide between them. "It's hard to remember a time where the strongest sales have coincided so closely with the quality of the strongest games."

"Most notable has been Half-Life 2, which we awarded our first 10 rating for more than three years.
