Team Fortress 2

Genre: First-Person Shooter
Publisher: EA Games
Developer: Valve
Release Date: October 10, 2007

Team Fortress 2 is a multiplayer team-based first-person shooter with strategy elements, deveoloped by Valve Corporation. Team Fortress 2 is a franchise with a rather turbulent history. The said game developed in 1996 as a free ware mod for Quake. Team fortress 2 is a team-based battle where you get to play as one of nine different characters, each with his own distinct style of gameplay.

Team Fortress 2 is the sequel to Team Fortress Classic one of the most popular Half Life total conversion of yesteryear, which in turn was a conversion of the original Team Fortress mod for Quake.According to Valve, TF 2 allows players to choose from nine different classes: Soldier, Spy, Engineer, Pyro, Scout, Heavy, Sniper, Medic and Demoman. In the process of selecting your ideal class, you are required to take a few things into account. Movement speed is important, since there is no sprint function in the game and each class moves at a different pace. The highlight of Team Fortress 2 is definitely the variety offered by its nine different character classes, which will take any serious gamer many hours to fully explore and match to his or her own FPS gaming habits.

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Conan

Genre: Action
Publisher: THQ
Developer: Nihilistic
Release Date: October 23, 2007

The upcoming Xbox360-PS3 Conan action from the developer Nihilistic Software and publisher THQ was said to be released on October 23, 2007. Conan is a third person action game that put the “hack” back into hack'n slash.
Conan game featuring a story of epic brutality, sheer evil and visceral combat. Conan takes from God of War is in the introduction of multiple combat styles, though Conan has his own trustworthy sword, he prefers to get whatever weapon he may get on his hand. Conan can use a wide variety of weapon, from swords to spears to axes, wielding each one with a deadly efficiency. There are three major kinds of fighting styles to which Conan has access. One-handed weapons are balanced but not particularly exceptional in any area, though they allow Conan to use a shield to augment his defense. Dual-wielding one-handed weapons is another option; it turns Conan into a buzz saw of death, allowing him to tear through enemies with blazing speed, although he sacrifices power to do so. Finally, two-handed weapons, such as broadswords and pole arms, are the real powerhouses; they're slower than the other weapons available, but in Conan's hands, even a single blow to an enemy can be fatal.

Playing as Conan, players will take advantage of a deep and gratifying combat system that offers a variety of deadly weapons, fighting styles and interactive environments to battle hordes. Conan video game will harness next generation hardware to deliver a cinematic game play experience, complete with special effects, lighting and a powerful, epic soundtrack, to capture the essence of the Conan universe.

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