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Ah, the turtle shell. Brush your fingers over its textured carapace. Go on, don't be shy - caress those neat hexagonal segments, and feel your flesh flick over the dividing ridges. Wonderful, isn't it? [br] [br] The RTS gamer should be well accustomed to it. To "turtle" is to batten down the hatches and deploy the heavy machine gun emplacements; to erect your walls of firepower and sit tight waiting for the enemy to spear themselves upon your spiked shell. But when genres inevitably overlap - as they often do in the borderless video-game community - and a mouse pointer blurs into a crosshair, a new form of hybrid gameplay emerges. [br] [br] In other words, the Engineer can BUILD GUN TURRETS LOL. [br] [br] For those of you unaccustomed to the concept of deployable defences in a (shock horror) FPS game, you'll want to check out Valve's new "Meet the Engineer" video (along with anybody in possession of a sense of humour). Then you will truly know what it is to "turtle". [br]
[br]You can view the trailer by accessing it on Steam's media section. Alternatively, grab it from Fileplanet, or wait for the video to hit Youtube or any other newfangled youth-orientated video-hosting webpage of the modern era.
