It only took 16 years for Team Fortress 2's voice cast to actually play the game

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For a game notoriously bereft of major updates(opens in new tab), Team Fortress 2 sure does seem to be everywhere recently. Or, more specifically, its voice cast is. When they're not scouring suburban America for sandwiches(opens in new tab), they're performing adaptations of Europop classics(opens in new tab) (also for sandwiches). But now they've embarked on their strangest, most avant-garde quest yet: Playing Team Fortress 2.

The video was put together by a TF2 YouTuber named ShorK(opens in new tab), and features Dennis Bateman (TF2's Spy and Pyro), Gary Schwartz (The Heavy and Demoman), Robin Atkin Downes (The Medic), John Patrick Lowrie (The Sniper), and Ellen McLain (The Administrator) as they play a few rounds of TF2 as the characters they voice. How good are they? Well, uh… Look, it's their first time playing, alright?

That's right. Apparently, in the 16 years since TF2 released, none of the voice actors featured have actually tried the game for themselves prior to this video. I find that a little hard to believe, but a couple of them do remark that it's their first time playing, and I suppose it's plausible that they've never really played it for more than a few minutes before (and that, busy people that they are, they subsequently forgot everything about it).

It's a treat to watch, even if it's not exactly tournament-level play. The stars of the show have got to be McLain and Lowrie, who are married in real life. McLain derives a lot of glee from watching Lowrie skitter around the map as a Sniper with only the barest conception of what's actually going on, fruitlessly attempting to score headshots without ever discovering the button for his scope. 

That doesn't seem to hamper his enjoyment, though: «This is a