To simplify the Xbox 360 version it can be said that it is awful. This upsets me quite strongly, because in 2007 Team Fortress was the best multiplayer game released. Better than Halo 3 (easily) and just a bit better than Call of Duty 4. Why I decide to write about this now is that it is has been about 4 months since the games release and we have yet to see Valves take on making the game better. There is also going to be new content that were not even sure that the Xbox 360 is going to get. I can’t complain to the extent that I would want to because they packaged it in the best deal I have yet to see in gaming. The Orange box brought us 5 games for the price of one, and every game is superb. On top of that Portal could be considered the best game of the year.
I still must complain to a degree or I will not get my sleep tonight. The problem with the Xbox 360 Team Fortress 2 game is not the game play it is connectivity to the internet. TF2 constantly kicks me out of matches for no reason, makes me freeze in one play for a long period of time, takes 1 minute to load into a game that I instantaneously get kicked out of and so on. One patch was released that help the game not look like a flip book, but these changes are barely noticeable when compared to the perfect connections of Call of Duty 4 and other games. On the PC it runs great and I could play it on that platform but I really like it on the Xbox 360 because the game overall doesn’t require perfect accuracy or twitch like reflexes so I don’t want to sit in that uncomfortable position in front of my computer. If I would have personally worked on the project I wouldn’t have released the Xbox version at the same time with the PC’s version. Although I hear that the Playstation 3 version didn’t fair so well even though it was released several months after. I guess I will just go an rant to the other ten people playing this game.
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