10 Early Versions Of Iconic Video Game Characters You Won't Believe
1. Team Fortress Characters Were Just Generic Soldiers
Depicted above are some early designs for the The Heavy and The Pyro long before Valve had settled on the cartoonish art style that the game would eventually utilise. As you can probably tell for yourself, the characters are pretty bland. This was most likely the main reason that the designs were changed, seeing as how the different classes were almost indistinguishable for one another.
Considering the influence and popularity of Team Fortress 2 in comparison to the original, its remarkable just how much difference a few design choices can make to the quality of a game. Though theres nothing particular wrong with the early designs, they're just pretty ordinary and undistinguishable. Luckily, Valve decided to go with a more cartoonish art style, and the designs pictured above never made it to the final product.
Almost everything we associate with TF2 comes directly from its brilliantly animated characters and cutscenes, and you just have to wonder how differently the game would have been received, had it stuck to these original designs.