Valve has now revealed that Team Fortress 2 will make up the multiplayer component for its forthcoming Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Along with Valve’s experimental first-person puzzler, Portal, Team Fortress 2 will be a standalone game but essentially free as part of the Episode Two package. No price has been given as of yet, but it’s assumed that it’ll run for $19.95 like Episode One.
Team Fortress 2 will feature nearly all of the classes from the original game, including the Heavy, Spy, Scout, Demolitions, Engineer, Medic, Sniper, Soldier and Pyro, making for nine classes in all. Valve hasn’t released any sort of information on what loadouts each class will carry.
Team Fortress 2 along with Portal (both ARE included in Half-Life 2: Episode Two on PC) do not have a firm release date as of yet, but being as Valve plans to ship Half-Life 2 (along with Episode One and Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2) to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 at the same time as the PC release of Episode Two, we can expect mid-November to be the earliest we’ll get our hands on it.
Valve had planned to ship Episode Two about six months after Episode One, which released on June 1st, so we expect to see the game appear late November or December 2006.
Check out more about Team Fortress 2 as well as the original footage from the old 2001 version (that still had realistic graphics, instead of the new cartoon style) over here at IGN. Via Steam