Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. In the game’s fiction, the teams are composed of mercenaries hired by two feuding brothers to protect the company assets belonging to one brother while trying to destroy those of the other; the teams are thus represented by the names of these companies: Reliable Excavation & Demolition (RED) and Builders League United (BLU). Players can choose to play as one of nine character classes in these teams, each with his own unique strengths, weaknesses, and weapons. In order to accomplish objectives efficiently, a balance of these classes is required due to how these strengths and weaknesses interact with each other in a team-based environment. Although the abilities of a number of classes have changed from earlier Team Fortress incarnations, the basic elements of each class have remained, that being one primary weapon, one secondary weapon, and one melee weapon. The game was released with six official maps, although over 100 maps have since been included in subsequent updates, including competitive remakes of older maps and community-assembled maps. When players join a level for the first time, an introductory video shows how to complete its objectives. During matches, the “Administrator”, a woman voiced by Ellen McLain, announces various game events over loudspeakers. The player limit is 16 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. On the PC, in 2008 Valve updated the game to include a server variable that allows up to 32 players.

Team Fortress 2 System Requirements

Minimum:

• OS: Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista/XP
• Processor: 1.7 GHz Processor or better
• Memory: 512 MB RAM
• DirectX: Version 8.1
• Storage: 15 GB available space

Recommended:

• OS: Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)
• Processor: Pentium 4 processor (3.0GHz, or better)
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• DirectX: Version 9.0c
• Storage: 15 GB available space