Team Fortress 2
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Стрелялка от первого лица |
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Многопользовательская игра |
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Робин Уокер, Джон Кук |
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Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Mac |
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Team Fortress 2 - многопользовательский, командный, шутер от первого лица, разработанный Valve Corporation в рамках сборника The Orange Box. Был выпущен для Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 и PlayStation 3 в 2007 году, и отдельных розничных сетей в 2008 году.
Игра была анонсирована в 1998 году как продолжение оригинального Team Fortress мода для Quake, но с тех пор претерпел существенные изменения концепции и дизайна. В 1999 году казалось, что геймплей игры отклонялся от оригинального мода Team Fortress (и собственного мода Valve — Team Fortress Classic под Half-Life) в сторону большей реалистичности и милитаризма, но за девять лет работы над проектом концепция была изменена. Финальный вариант Team Fortress 2 очень близок к оригинальным модам Team Fortress и Team Fortress Classic и визуально исполнен в забавном мультяшном карикатурном стиле с использованием лицевой анимации, основанной на творчестве таких художников начала двадцатого века как Дж. К. Лейендекер, Дин Корнуэлл и Норман Роквелл, следуя популярной тенденции недавних фильмов, в частности недавно созданных Pixar/Disney, к примеру, фильм Суперсемейка.
The lack of information or apparent progress for six years of the game's development caused it to be labeled as vaporware, and it was regularly featured in Wired News annual vaporware list among other ignominies. The game has received critical acclaim and several awards since its release.
Содержание
Игровой процесс
Like its predecessors, Team Fortress 2 is built around two opposing teams competing for an objective. These two teams are meant to represent a demolition and a construction company: Reliable Excavation Demolition (RED) and Builders League United (BLU). Players can choose to play as one of nine classes in these teams, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses. Although the abilities of a number of classes have changed from earlier Team Fortress incarnations, the basic elements of each class have remained.
Team Fortress 2 is the first of Valve software's multiplayer games to incorporate detailed statistics for players. These statistics include the time spent playing as each class, average point score and the most captures or objectives achieved in a single round. (See Valve statistics.) Persistent statistics tell the player how they are improving in relation to these statistics, such as if a player comes close to their record for the damage inflicted in a round. Team Fortress 2 also features numerous achievements for carrying out certain tasks, such as scoring a certain number of kills or completing a round within a certain time. New sets of class-specific achievements have been added in subsequent updates, which add new abilities and weapons to each class once unlocked by the player. Achievements unlocked and statistics from previously played games are displayed on the player's Steam Community or Xbox live profile page.
Карты
Список карт: Карты
В версии для ПК, игра изначально шла с официальными картами Valve, а также с несколькими картами сообщества. На консольной версии, есть только шесть карт выпущенные самими Valve. Официальные карты, как правило, выполнены в стиле секретных баз злых учёных, где скрывается на промышленных складах супер оружие, такие как лазерные пушки и ракетные стартовые комплексы и выполняют роль основных целей команд.
Когда игрок присоединяется к карте в первый раз, вступительное видео показывает, основные цели на карте для каждой из команд, так же, можно просмотреть ход боя в режиме наблюдателя, нажав в комнате выбора команды на телевизор. Предел игроков на PC - 24, но может быть изменен на некоторых серверах, чтобы достигать 32, на Xbox 360 и PlayStation 3 он составляет 16.
История создания
Начало
Originally planned as a free mod for Quake, development on Team Fortress 2 switched to the GoldSrc engine in 1998 after the development team Team Fortress Software - consisting of Robin Walker and John Cook - were first contracted and finally outright employed by Valve corporation. At the point of Team Fortress Software's acquisition production moved up a notch and the game was promoted to a standalone, retail product to tide fans over since, as well as time issues, much of the Team Fortress player base had purchased Half-Life solely in anticipation of the free release of Team Fortress 2. Work began on a simple port of the game which was released in 1999 as the free Team Fortress Classic. Notably, Team Fortress Classic was built entirely within the publicly available Half-Life Software Development Kit as an example to the community and industry of its flexibility.
Walker and Cook had been heavily influenced by their three-month contractual stint at Valve, and now they were working full-time on their design, which was undergoing rapid metamorphosis. Team Fortress 2 was to be a modern war game, with a command hierarchy including a commander with a bird's-eye view of the battlefield, parachute drops over enemy territory, networked voice communication and numerous other innovations.
E3 1999
The new design was revealed to the public at the 1999 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), where it earned several awards including Best Online Game and Best Action Game. By this time Team Fortress 2 had gained a new subtitle, Brotherhood of Arms, and the results of Walker and Cook working at Valve were becoming clear. Several new and at the time unprecedented technologies on show: Parametric animation seamlessly blended animations for smoother, more life-like movement, and Intel's Multi-resolution mesh technology dynamically reduced the detail of on-screen elements as they became more distant to improve performance (a technique made obsolete by decreasing memory costs; today games use a technique known as level of detail, which uses more memory but less processing power). No release date was given at the exposition.
In mid-2000, Valve announced that development of Team Fortress 2 had been delayed for a second time. They put the news down to development switching to an in-house, proprietary engine that is today known as the Source engine. It was at around this time that all news ran dry and Team Fortress 2 entered its notorious six-year radio silence, which was to last until July 13, 2006. During that time, both Walker and Cook worked on various other Valve projects—Walker was project lead on Half-Life 2: Episode One and Cook became a Steam developer, among other tasks—raising doubts that Team Fortress 2 was really the active project that would be repeatedly described.
Invasion
When the Half-Life 2 source tree was leaked in late 2003, two Team Fortress 2 models were included, along with direct references to the game in the source code. They consisted of an alien grunt and a very stylized, out-of-proportion human soldier. The code was interpreted by fans as making references to the Seven Hour War, an integral part of the Half-Life story; however, the two leaked player models did not resemble any known style from the Half-Life series.
The Source SDK was released with the Half-Life 2 source code, and also provided references to Team Fortress 2. Some code merely confirmed what was already believed, but other segments provided completely new information, such as the presence of NPCs in multiplayer matches, the possibility of the game taking place in the Half-Life 2 universe, fixed plasma gun and missile launcher emplacements, and more.
None of the leaked information appears to have had any bearing on today's version of the game. This iteration was mentioned in an August 2007 interview with Gabe Newell by GameTrailers and a September 2010 interview with PC Gamer, in which he mentions "Invasion" as being the second phase of Team Fortress 2's development under Valve Software.
Final design
The next significant public development occurred in the run up to Half-Life 2's 2004 release: Valve's Director of Marketing Doug Lombardi claimed that Team Fortress 2 was still in development and that information concerning it would come after Half-Life 2's release. This did not happen; nor was any news released after Lombardi's similar claim during an early interview regarding Half-Life 2: Episode One. Near the time of Episode One's release Gabe Newell again claimed that news on Team Fortress 2 would be forthcoming— and this time it was. Team Fortress 2 was re-unveiled a month later at the July 2006 EA Summer Showcase event.
Walker revealed in March 2007 that Valve had quietly built "probably three to four different games" before settling on their final design. Due to the game's lengthy development cycle it was often mentioned alongside Duke Nukem Forever, another long-anticipated game that has seen many years of protracted development and engine changes.
The beta release of the game featured six multiplayer maps, of which three contain optional commentary by the developers on the game design, level design and character design, and provide more information on the history behind the development.
Team Fortress 2 does not attempt the realistic graphical approach used in other Valve games on the Source engine such as Half-Life 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Counter-Strike: Source. Rather, it uses a more stylized, cartoon-like approach "heavily influenced by early 20th century commercial illustrations.". The effect is achieved using a special Valve in-house rendering and lighting technique making extensive use of 'Phong shading'. The development commentary in the game suggests that part of the reason for the cartoonish style was the difficulty in explaining the maps and characters in realistic terms. The removal of an emphasis on realistic settings allows these questions to be sidestepped. The game debuts with the Source engine's new dynamic lighting, shadowing and soft particle technologies, among many other unannounced features, alongside Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Team Fortress 2 was also the first game to implement the Source engine's new Facial animation 3 features.
The art style for the game was inspired by J. C. Leyendecker, as well as Dean Cornwell and Norman Rockwell. Their distinctive styles of strong silhouettes and shading to draw attention to specific details were adapted in order to make the models distinct, with a focus on making the characters' team, class and current weapon easily identifiable. Silhouettes and animation are used to make the class of a character apparent even at range, and a color scheme that draws attention to the chest area brings focus to the selected weapon.
Maps are designed with a neutral space between two bases. They are archetypal spy fortresses, but disguised as inconspicuous buildings to give plausibility to their close proximities. The maps have little visual clutter and stylized, almost impressionistic modeling, to allow enemies to be spotted more easily. The impressionistic design approach also affects textures, which are based on photos that are filtered and improved by hand, giving them a tactile quality and giving Team Fortress 2 its distinct look. The bases are designed to let players immediately know where they are. The RED base uses warm colors, natural materials and angular shapes, while the BLU base uses cool colors, industrial materials and orthogonal shapes.
Выпуск
В июле 2006 г. На пресс-конференции Electronic Arts, Valve показали, что Team Fortress 2 выйдет как многопользовательский компонент Half-Life 2: Episode Two. В трейлере продемонстрировали новый графический стиль игры, показывая все классы оригинальной Team Fortress, указывая на более веселое и причудливое исполнение, в отличие от темных, более традиционных военных моделей, которые первоначально были показаны. Гейб Ньюэлл, управляющий директор Valve, сказал, что их целью было создать "самую красивую и лучшую классовую многопользовательскую игру".
Бета-версия Team Fortress 2 была выпущена через Steam 17 сентября 2007 года для клиентов, которые предварительно заказали The Orange Box и для тех, кто активировали Black Box купон, который был вложен к видеокартам ATI HD 2900XT. Для сетевых клубов использующих систему 'Steam for Cafe' пакет The Orange Box установлен и готов к игре.
Финальная версия Team Fortress 2 была выпущена 10 октября 2007 года как отдельный продукт через Steam так и в магазинах розничной торговли в рамках The Orange Box, по стандартной цене для каждой игровой платформы. Пакет также содержит Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two и Portal. Valve предложил The Orange Box со скидкой в $ 5 для тех, кто предварительно приобретёт его через Steam до 10 октября, а также возможность принять участие в окончательном тестировании бета-версии Team Fortress 2.
Оценки критиков
- 1UP: 9.0/10 (Windows) 1UP TF2 (PC Review)
- EuroGamer: 9/10 (Windows) EuroGamer TF2 (PC Review)
- GameSpy: 5/5 (Windows) GameSpy TF2 (PC Review)
- IGN: 8.9/10 (Windows) IGN TF2 (PC Review)
- PCGamer UK: 9.4/10 (Windows) PC Gamer UK TF2 (PC Review)
- GamerNode: 9.0/10 (Windows) Gamernode TF2 (PC Review)
- GameDaily: 9.0/10 (Windows) GameDaily TF2 (PC Review)
- Metacritic: 92% (Windows) Metacritic TF2 (Overall Ranking)
- Gamerankings: 92,6% (Windows) Gamerankings TF2 (Overall Ranking)
Team Fortress 2 был очень хорошо принят как критиками, так и игроками. Чарльз Ониит (Charles Onyett) из IGN оценил Team Fortress 2 в 8.9/10, хваля причудливую графику и атмосферу веселья, но критикуя отсутствие дополнительного контента, такого как боты, а также удаление из игры классовых гранат, которые были одной из определяющих черт оригинальной Team Fortress. В отличии от IGN, PC Gamer UK похвалил Team Fortress 2 за отказ от гранаты, поддерживая Valve Software на уникальном характере каждого из персонажей игры. Несмотря на некоторые незначительные замечания по карте навигации и класса Медика, PC Gamer UK наградил игру 94%. X-Play оценил Orange Box наивысшим рейтингом (5 / 5) но ничего конкретного не сказал о Team Fortress 2. На сайте Metacritic Team Fortress 2 получил "всеобщее признание", и на основе 12 обзоров игровых сайтов был оценен в 92%, а на основе пользовательских оценок 9.6/10. По состоянию на 13 октября 2010 года Orange Box имеет оценку на сайте GameRankings - 96,2% для Xbox 360, что делает его одной из самых высоко рейтинговых игр для этой консоли, 95,8% на ПК и 89,2 на PS3.
Награды
Team Fortress 2 завоевал несколько наград с момента его выпуска. В своем списке наград "Best of 2007" , заслуженный игровой сайт IGN.com представил игру в номинации "Лучший художественный дизайн" для ПК. Кроме того, Team Fortress 2 получила награды редакции за "Лучший многопользовательский опыт (ПК)" и "Лучшее художественное исполнение (ПК)" от 1UP.com в 2007 году. В 2007 году от GameSpy получил награду "Лучшая многопользовательская игра года", на ПК и на любой другой платформе, вместе с наградой за "Cамый уникальный Художественный Cтиль".
Ссылки
Официальные сайты
- Team Fortress 2 на сайте The Orange Box.
- Valve Software
- Официальный блог TF2
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