Team Fortress was a Half Life mod, as well as Counter Strike, which was later purchased by Valve, the company that created Half Life and its innovative Source SDK engine. Half Life is a famous first person shooter game whose graphics engine has been modified by enthusiasts and professionals to create different games.
A Mod is a series of graphic and functional changes to a video game, for example changing weapons, villains, missions and game scenarios.
Valve, the author of hugely successful games like Half Life 2, has an online store called Steam which serves as the launching platform for games purchased for Mac and Windows.
Steam is perhaps the most popular online video game store for PC, also because you can find the best last-minute titles and several other multiplayer games at very low prices, to download and play for 3 or 5 dollars.
The great news is that Team Fortress 2, a follow-up to Team Fortress, can now be downloaded for free from the Steam online store .
After downloading Team Fortess 2, the physical Source engine is also installed on the computer, used by games such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life 2 or Left 4 Dead and it is therefore possible to download and play other mods, that is, other free games of the same genre but with different graphics and scenarios, to be played in multiplayer on dedicated servers.
Team Fortress 2 is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game where players are deployed in two different teams that fight to complete a mission.
Each player can choose his character, each with different characteristics: Explorer, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy, Engineer, Doctor, Sniper, Spy.
For more detail on the roles of Team Fortress 2 I recommend reading Wikipedia which also explains the different game modes very well.
The graphics and gameplay of Team Fortress is similar to that of the Unreal tournament, simply spectacular and fluid, clean and clear which remains light and fast even on not too powerful computers.
Team Fortress 2 can be downloaded for free by starting the download from Steam on your computer and in Italian.
To download Steam games just create a free account.
The only difference between those who start playing now with the free version and those who bought the game previously is the availability of items available, which however are not necessary to play and win.
The most important thing is that all game modes, classes and maps are available and then that, as it is now free, you will find more players from all over the world to have fun with.
For sure Team Fortress will become a world battleground.
To celebrate the free release event, a very amusing promotional video was created, from which you can guess the graphic irony with which the game is made, bloody by pretense and without any possibility of impressing.
As I mentioned above, after installing Team Fortresss 2, you can also play other mods, which are other free games with different scenarios, missions and game modes, but always with the same game engine, that is always first person shooter and multiplayer in teams .
1) Sven Co-Op is free Half Life for PC even in multiplayer mode
2) Fortress Forever is an expansion of Team Fortress Classic with many more maps to play freely and for free.
3) Zombie Panic ( Steam Download )
There are two classes and two game teams: human survivors and bloodthirsty zombies.
Everyone starts as a human, but then, by choice or if self-selected, some become zombies.
As a human being, the undead must be repelled with whatever weapon they find, while the Zombies must simply eat the brain!
4) Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat is a war game with a realistic setting in a scenario very similar to that of a Call Of Duty.
I also remember that Valve had already released a great free and multiplayer game called Alien Swarm, to download for free on Steam.
Those looking for other games similar to Counter Strike or Half Life 2, can look at the list of the best online multiplayer shooter games.
Also free on Steam are other multiplayer games with PvP battles such as Champions Online and Global Agenda
