Originally Posted by Zoopy_T

Enemy Territory lacks the tactical depth of TF2. Sure Quake wars has vehicles, two opposing asymmetrical [sic] factions, huge maps and objective based game play. But its the latter that limits Quake wars tactically.

One team is always assaulting a defending team, all strategies revolve around your faction and the map. So if you are Strogg on Outskirts, then you are defending the barricade thinggy. That's all you have to do until its destroyed. GDF all you need is a crap load of Assaults to throw themselves at it until it's blown up. Therefore half your team is limited to one class.

TF2 doesn't limit the classes needed for an objective. This allows for more of tactical application to how to complete an objective based on classes alone. Also in TF2 you have to very your attacking and defending (except on the defense maps). If your entire team attacks the middle, its possible for the other team to slip a scout past and capture the point behind the attackers, nullifying their attack.

Quake Wars may have more options, but it has far less freedom.

On a side note: Saying that Quake Wars has better animation compared to TF2 is just asinine.

I couldn't disagree more. You're saying that since everyone's focusing on a single objective in QW, your options are limited, but the same is true for TF2 - everyone needs to get on a point. The number of ways you can complete or defend an objective in QW dwarfs TF2. There's so much more to it. You don't need half your team as the objective-completer class. You only need 1 person to complete the objectives, the rest of the team is support. If you need half your team as a covops to complete a hack objective, you're doing it wrong. The hard part isn't completing the objectives themselves, it's being able to control the area and suppress the defenders.

Saying that TF2 has more freedom than Quake Wars is just asinine.

I havn't been playing much Quake Wars the past few days because I've been busy playing through the Portal challenges and Episode 2, but in a day or two I'll probably never touch them again, at least not until we get some good portal custom maps.

LiquidNazgul, download the Quake Wars demo. It's the unrestricted game with a single map, and will show you exactly what Quake Wars is like. There's no TF2 demo so you won't be able to compare it, but play the QW demo for a week (pretty steep learning curve, especially compared to TF2) and you'll know if you like it or not. They're both fantastic games, and I bought both and play both regularly, but I prefer QW and will probably play it more in the long run. Too bad you can't buy both right now.