Team Fortress 2 is the best multiplayer shooter I’ve ever played, and its characters are so vibrant with personality. Over the last three and a half years I’ve clocked up over 1000 hours on various maps. Whether it’s Capture the Flag, Control Point or Payload, the servers are full of glowing Heavies with pet Medics in tow, Pyros charging into flaming targets with their barb-wired axes raised over their gimp masks, and Soldiers and Demomen flying through the air, boots on fire. I’ve stabbed, shot, cloaked, crafted, traded, combusted, exploded, and unlocked my way to a backpack full of lovely trinkets. Where TF2 is now, with its amassment weapons and cosmetics, is a long way from what it launched as. And now it’s free, and host to last-minute dives to stop a Payload bomb detonating the server, and rows of dancing Engies.