14 DAY TRIAL // Valve has confirmed the upcoming availability of Team Fortress 2 for Mac OS X via its Steam platform. An encrypted blog post on the official TF2 blog signals that Team Fortress 2 is coming to the Mac as soon as today. Artwork featuring the game's characters wearing Apple-style headphones is also provided. No other details are given.
“Big things are happening RIGHT NOW at Valve,” the post in question reads. “Things involving cultivated tree-fruit. BIG things. Things that rhyme with ‘grapple.’ Things that rhyme with ‘Speem Gortress zmavailable on the Babac.’ Not today. But tomorrow. BIG THINGS. Stay tuned…”
Team Fortress 2, a team-based first-person shooter with multiplayer gameplay, is the sequel to Valve's previous Team Fortress Classic. Released as part of The Orange Box video-game compilation on October 10, 2007 for Windows and the Xbox 360, Team Fortress 2 saw its release on Sony’s PlayStation 3 on November 22, 2007, and as a standalone package for Windows on April 9, 2008, according to Wikipedia. The game was then distributed online through Steam, the Valve-developed digital distribution, multiplayer and communications platform.
The making of Team Fortress 2 was handled by lead developers John Cook and Robin Walker (and their code-savvy crew). Cook and Walker are the designers who originally created the Team Fortress modification for Quake in 1996.
Team Fortress 2 is focused on two opposing teams that compete for the same objective. Dubbed the Reliable Excavation & Demolition (RED) team, and the Builders League United (BLU) team, they represent two corporations that secretly control every government on the planet. The objective of the title is defined by the game mode in use. For example, on capture-the-flag (CTF) maps, the objective for both teams is to obtain a briefcase of intelligence from the enemy team's base and return it to their own. Team members also need to prevent the enemy from doing the same.