Last year, my friends from computer science decided to do something geeky for Halloween:

What could be geekier than going to Halloween as video game characters from TF2? (If you don’t know what TF2 is and have a winter break to waste, click here.)

Close enough?

This certainly wasn’t the first time it’s been done. Heck, it’s even been done in Lego.

But none of these other guys had a backdrop quite as video-game-like as the Bahen Centre (computer science HQ) at UofT.

And here are some individual shots of the characters:

Pyro

Sniper

Engineer

Scout

Spies

Demoman

Medics

A cameo

The spy character in TF2 has the special ability to disguise himself as another player:

When disguised in TF2, you will resemble a Spy wearing a “cardboard-cutout mask” of your chosen class, to your teammates. This will help to distinguish you from an actual enemy player.

Here’s my friend Ian disguised as a certain blogger/photographer:

Update: you may also like the shenanigans from this year: Halloween 2.0: Social Media Edition.