Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 is a multiplayer team-based FPS, with strategy elements, currently being developed by Valve Corporation.

This game will not opt for the realistic graphical approaches, rather, it will use a more stylized, cartoon-like approach “heavily influenced by early 20th century commercial illustrations”. The effect is achieved using a special Valve in-house rendering and lighting technique making extensive use of Phong shading. The game will debut the Source engine’s new dynamic lighting, shadowing and soft particle technologies, among many other unannounced features, here’s a nice video demonstrating the technology used on Team Fortress 2:

I also suggest taking a look at the fantastic movies and screenshots available on the Team Fortress official homepage.

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