It was released by Valve on Octoas the multiplayer component of the Orange Box, which also includes Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Portal. Other developments include Australium, a strange element mined in Australia that turns those exposed to it into manly, ridiculously strong geniuses, and Gray Mann, the long-lost third brother who's actually not a moron. The Administrator is heavily implied to be masterminding the entire conflict, all in a Thanatos Gambit by the brothers' deceased father as punishment for their imbecility.
(a company which the twins' father left to the Australian Hale family), which is a subsidiary of The Administrator's own company, TF Industries. Both organizations are given combat intel by the same Administrator, who supplies them with weapons provided by Mann Co.
Both Mega-Corps are, in actuality, fronts for two opposing intelligence organizations, which each control one-half of the world's governments. Some of them work for the demolition company Reliable Excavation & Demolition (RED), founded by Redmond Mann some work for the Builders League United (BLU), a construction company founded by Redmond's twin brother, Blutarch. Team Fortress 2 is about a group of nine average, everyday, working-class mercenaries. Crack that manual open, though, and it's a different story.
You've been hired to mop the floor with their asses." For the average player, it really doesn't get any more complicated than that. Said plot, in all of its glory, is "The other side is the enemy, and vice versa. A sequel to the classic Half-Life mod Team Fortress Classic, itself based on Team Fortress (a popular mod for Quake), Team Fortress 2 has the kind of story a multiplayer-only shooter should have: interesting settings, awesome character classes that each have a distinct personality and can be easily recognized just by their silhouette, and an Excuse Plot that stays All There in the Manual.
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