Team Fortress 2's Fate Unearthed In Missing Games Feature

Thanks to IGN PC for the latest part of its feature discussing some notable PC games that were announced but, so far, never released. In particular, Valve's Team Fortress 2, as originally previewed by IGN in January 1999, is focused on, with Valve's Doug Lombardi clarifying: "Some time after we announced Team Fortress 2, which was then being created on the HL1 tech, the decision was made to move the project to the Source Engine, the same engine used for HL2. The project is still in development here at Valve and we will be announcing more info after HL2 ships." Other forgotten games include Digital Anvil's Loose Cannon ("...this hardly looks like a living project"), and Sid Meier's Dinosaurs ("...never found its niche. Extinct.")

Comments

That is by no means "new" news.

[Spiffae]

That Doug Lombardi quote comes from somewhere soon after HL2 was shown at E3 in May of 2003. There was a lot of excitement over Source and Half-Life 2, and they slipped in that Team Fortress 2 was still in the works.

If anyone looked at the HL2 source code leak, you noticed that the code was divided in half. Half of it was about Half-Life2, and the other half was about Team Fortress 2. this is in no way a "dead" project, simply an completely secretive one. Some of the stuff in that code was really cool, a lot of good gameplay ideas, and what seemed to be some impressive innovation.

I'm guessing we'll hear more (and maybe see more) about Team Fortress 2 this E3 (May 12-14).

Does this mean my Gamstop Pre-Order is still good?

[WarlockD]

I mean I did reserve $10 on it in 1999, so in theory I still can get it redeamed...right?