Team Fortress 2

Sorry for the delay, I got sidetracked. Anyway, Team Fortress 2. My history of online FPS's consists of Unreal Tournament 2004, a little bit of Quake 3 at a friend's house, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, and Team Fortress 2. Since I have no history with class-based fps warfare, I will just say this: Team Fortress 2 is fucking awesome. Balanced classes, intense combat and a touch of humor are what give this game its extreme awesomeness. The classes in TF2 are thus: The Scout for swift scattergunning action, the Pyro for burninating ferocity, the Soldier for good old-fashioned RPG firing havoc, the Heavy for some Russian-themed, dumbed-down minigunning, the Demoman for k'boom blammo stickymine nadefirin' explosive combat, the Engineer for sentry-centered lying in wait, the Medic for healing/needling, the Sniper for crazy headshots, and the Spy for backstabbing supremacy.The maps are pretty good, but they do get a bit boring after a long time of playing on them. To shake things up, there is a custom maps option for bizarre variations of TF2, such as birthday party TF2, low-grav TF2, and instant respawn TF2. Another fun thing to do is check out the custom maps- my personal favorites are orange_x and duel_duel2.
As a final note, I would say this game is extremely competetive as a multiplayer fps. It has a low entrance barrier (see my esteemed coleague Draztak's run-down of fps's at www.draztakblog.blogspot.com), so little noobs should consider this as their first adventure into the online fps world as opposed to COD4 or Halo 3. That's all for now, this is Jimbo, signing out.