Oh yes, I should have mentioned, I have ordered the Orange Box from Steam, and Team Fortress 2 was unlocked yesterday as a beta to try before the final version is released in October. So for so good, the main issue I had was running the game. It breaks for some reason but if you have issues try these fixes by adding these arguments to the shortcut to the game on your desktops:

“C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe” -applaunch 440 -fullscreen -width 1920 -height 1200 -refresh 60

this got the game running at full screen for me and working which was better than before. You can tweak this to your screen res of course or simply:

“C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe” -applaunch 440 -window

which should work and then you can fiddle with the graphics settings.

BTW, playing it online even for the ever so brief time I got yesterday, the yanks are on and well it appears they still have the mentality of 8 year olds. As if we all needed that. One bloke was on the voice shouting “what are all you doing? listen to me etc etc.”

It was the first day of play and already we have people like that? Many others then just decided to shoot him as friendly fire was allowed to count. He got the message. And that was thanks to someone from Utah. So I guess that they’re not all bad.