So I’ve been playing some of the games in the *Orange Box*. The first is *Half Life 2*, a first person shooter, and the second is *Team Fortress 2*, an online shooter with very distinct classes. The classes are quite impressive: Pyros are good at short range, heavies have incredible fire power, spies can disguise themselves as enemies, snipers are good at long range, soldiers have a bazooka, scouts are very fast, engineers build automatic guns.
Today was the first game where I actually had fun at *Team Fortress 2*. At one time I was playing an engineer that kept defending our team’s “intelligence”, and I was playing a spy that sneaked into the enemy camp and backstabbed snipers. Team play was still amiss, but at last I was seeing a strategy that actually worked.
Surprisingly, *Half Life 2* is not really drawing me into the game like *Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter* 1 & 2 did. I think I prefer it if sneaking is actually useful, when enemies don’t just keep coming, when you don’t need ten hits to kill and when you don’t survive a gazillion wounds yourself.
I wonder whether it will get any better.
Right now, I can’t recommend it. If you want to know more about Half Life and don’t mind spoilers, check out Shamus Young’s posts on the subject.
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Yesterday I had a bit more fun playing *Team Fortress 2*. Perhaps it just takes some getting used to. When Claudia watched me play *Half Life 2* she wondered whether the charred corpses and the creepers on the ceiling don’t give me nightmares. She has a point...
– Alex Schroeder 2007-12-23 10:20 UTC