Team Fortress 2 Preview

My fear with this is that it will die a quick death on the pc.

I played the crap outta TFC even while on dialup, but that was before the BF series and CS became huge and drew away bunches of players. Other than the name and nostalgia combined with some new graphics, can this compete with the online games coming out at the same time? I wouldn't have wanted Valve to have spent this long only to have it last a couple months and fade away.

Is there no grenades what so ever??? when i read that last week i thought it refered to the standard grenades, each class should still have specialised grenades though.....right?

this game looks badass, again i wish i could use a mouse + keyboard on 360.

something else anyone seen the gta IV trailer yet its supposed to be out but i cant get to rockstars site it seems to be hammered. you think they would have gotten more bandwidth for this.

Everything in that article sounded awesome. Having such unique classes makes it seem like I could be playing TF2 for a long time.

This is quickly becoming my most anticipated game in a long time.

No grenades = something that should have been done long ago. TFC is a giant spamfest on most servers because of them.

Medic that is actually useful for healing = awesome. I won't be missing the conc-jumping, disease spreading medics of the past. Oh, and the player model looks completely awesome too (as do all the new player models).

The only thing that worries me is the engineer turrets becoming too powerful. With the removal of grenades, that means that only the soldier and the demoman are going to be able to take turrets down. Of course, this will make teamwork more important, something which (ironically) has never been that critical in the game.

Oh, and the fact that the Source engine runs butter smooth while looking crisp and beautiful gives it even more points.

Why are there no pics in these previews? Annoying.

The dynamic maps are touched on at the bottom of the article, something I thought they dropped a long time ago. That's a nice addition, I hope they work it in as many places as they can...

Some bits of new info on that one. Especially depicting with more details than GI what each of the classes do. I really like how the Spy can be healed by enemy medics while under disguise.