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| genre = First-person shooter | modes = Single-player, multiplayer | platforms = Windows Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 OS X Linux }} ''Team Fortress 2'' is a team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation. It is the sequel to the 1996 mod ''Team Fortress'' for ''Quake'' and its 1999 remake. It was released as part of the video game compilation ''The Orange Box'' on October 10, 2007 for Windows and the Xbox 360. A PlayStation 3 version followed on December 11, 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Orange Box )〕 On April 8, 2008, it was released as a standalone title for Windows. The game was updated to support OS X on June 10, 2010, and Linux on February 14, 2013. It is distributed online through Valve's download retailer Steam; retail distribution was handled by Electronic Arts. In ''Team Fortress 2'', players join one of two teams comprising nine character classes, battling in a variety of game modes including capture the flag and king of the hill. The development is led by John Cook and Robin Walker, creators of the original ''Team Fortress''. Announced in 1998, the game once had more realistic, militaristic visuals and gameplay, but this changed over the protracted nine-year development. After Valve released no information for six years, ''Team Fortress 2'' regularly featured in ''Wired News'' annual vaporware list among other ignominies. The finished ''Team Fortress 2'' has cartoon-like visuals influenced by the art of J. C. Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell and Norman Rockwell〔 (Video summary ) (WMV, 75.4MB)〕 and is powered by Valve's Source engine. ''Team Fortress 2'' received critical acclaim for its art direction, gameplay, humor, and use of character in a multiplayer-only game.〔 Valve continues to release new content, including maps, items and game modes. On June 23, 2011, it became free to play, supported by microtransactions for unique in-game equipment. A 'drop system' was also added and refined in this update, allowing free-to-play users to still receive game equipment by use of a random number generator. ==Gameplay== Like its predecessors, ''Team Fortress 2'' is focused around two opposing teams competing for a combat-based principal objective. 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. 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 44 extra maps, 9 arena maps, 8 king of the hill maps, and various other map types have been included in subsequent updates.〔 In addition, a number of community assembled maps have been released. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ellen McLain )〕 The player limit is 16 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. On the PC, in 2008 Valve updated ''Team Fortress 2'' to include a server variable that allows up to 32 players. ''Team Fortress 2'' is the first of Valve's multiplayer games to provide detailed statistics for individual players. They include: time spent playing as each class, most points obtained, and the most captures or objectives achieved in a single life. Persistent statistics tell the player how he or she is improving in relation to these statistics, such as if a player comes close to his or her record for the damage inflicted in a round. ''Team Fortress 2'' also features numerous "achievements" for carrying out certain tasks, such as scoring a certain number of kills or completing a round within a certain time. New sets of class-specific achievements have been added in updates, which add new abilities and weapons to each class once unlocked by the player. This unlockable system has since been expanded into a random-chance system, where the player can also obtain the items simply by playing the game. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Team Fortress 2」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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