The game remains successful as it offers combat-based objectives where players can play one of several classes, each with unique abilities, weaknesses, and weapons.
Historically, it stands as the sequel to the 1996 Team Fortress mod for Quake and its 1999 remake called Team Fortress Classic. Team Fortress 2 is a single-player and multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve Corporation in 2007 on Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Mac OS X, and Linux.