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Team Fortress 2 - Graphical style

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Published 15 August, 2007 Duration 3:34

Team Fortress 2's bold visual style makes it instantly recognisable. The enormous upheaval in visual styles between the initial screenshots and what we see now was the result of a long process of design decisions, all thoughtfully explained for you here.

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WrongShui #1 5 years ago

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Well i don't have a clue what he was talking about.

Lookin' good!
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Mr-Brett #2 5 years ago

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wow that was pretty technical, but still pretty interesting.
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Razz #3 5 years ago

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Cool. It looks like "The Incredibles"
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RedPanda #4 5 years ago

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Hurleybird #5 5 years ago

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I'd love to know what he was saying. The stuff early on about sillouettes and basic team base colours is clever though.

Love the facial animation at the end too!

Looking forward to this a lot!!!
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LOLLERS #6 5 years ago

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haha RIM
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smirny #7 5 years ago

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i'll give you broad phong lobes...
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pHk #8 5 years ago

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Couldn't have said it better myself. My first rim term ends in a month.
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viper_h #9 5 years ago

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Had no clue what he was talking about. Sounded like something out of Star Trek. Reverse the polarity!

On another note, did anyone else notice with the HW guy at the end how the tracer bullets didn't seem to be coming out of the end of his gatling gun?
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sport #10 5 years ago

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and there I thought they just created each model with a 3D studio max wizard...
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MouzerMalti #11 5 years ago

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@viper_h
saw that too
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Schiraman #12 5 years ago

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I love the visual style, really looking forward to this.
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Verwandlung #13 5 years ago

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I hate the visual style.
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YourMessageHere #14 5 years ago

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This is nice art and a proper in-depth commentary on it, the like of which should be encouraged, but totally out of place in this game. It's all very well trying to make your game look like a Miyazaki film or a fashionably retro advert, but neither of these styles suit a game composed entirely of pitched battles and immense machineguns.
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Chufty #15 5 years ago

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The art direction is fantastic and the unique graphical style is a breath of fresh air. It does suit the TF2 gameplay style, which is much more fun-oriented and than CS, and where the particular classes are very distinct and disparate. The Source engine really looks wretched compared to the latest games, especially with Bioshock, UT3 and Crysis all on the horizon, so maybe this approach is a smart move.
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Linkn #16 5 years ago

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I think this and portal must be budget prototypes as they are releasing both in the orange box for half life ep. 2
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TheUnionFrag #17 5 years ago

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I want a Phong for my girlfriend. I think?

What just happened there?

Oh well - looks good. Who cares.
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FLC #18 5 years ago

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What? the art style fits perfectly for a game like Team Fortress. Have you played any of the previous incarnations?

EDIT:

Also, I'd love to see the staff at Blizzard doing technical videos like the ones Valve does.

Edited by FLC at 19/08/07 @ 17:14
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TexMurphy01 #19 5 years ago

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I've studied most of those terms on a programming degree course, but after a while, all I heard was 'blah blah blah'.
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BurningR #20 5 years ago

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Impressionist game designing

Now we're getting somewhere!
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